Matthew Chapter 27 verse 7 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 27:7

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
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BBE Matthew 27:7

And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.
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DARBY Matthew 27:7

And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.
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KJV Matthew 27:7

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
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WEB Matthew 27:7

They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers in.
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YLT Matthew 27:7

and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers;
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - They took counsel. They deliberated how to dispose of this blood money. This deliberation may have taken place after the Crucifixion. The potter's field. The spot was well known at the time. It is traditionally said to have lain on the south of Jerusalem - on the hillside across the valley of Hinnom, on what is called the Hill of Evil Counsel. Here is found a tract of clay, which is still used by the potters of the city. In the time of our Lord. the clay probably was considered to be exhausted, and the area, excavated in all directions, and useless for agricultural purposes, was sold for a trifling price. To bury strangers in. The "strangers" are probably not pagans, but foreign Jews and Gentile proselytes, who came to Jerusalem to attend the festival, and died there. Others think that foreigners (Greeks and Romans, etc.) exclusively are meant, the Jews regarding their very presence in the holy city as defilement, and a cemetery purchased by unclean money a fitting spot for their interment. The "field" was set apart in the Crusaders' times as a burial place for pilgrims, and to this day contains a charnel house wherein are deposited the poor and unhonoured dead of Jerusalem.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) And they took counsel.--As before, they held a council.The potter's field.--In Jeremiah 18:2 we read of the "potter's house" as being outside the city, probably, from Jeremiah 19:2, in the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna), on the south side of Jerusalem. It is probable that it had been worked out in course of time, and was now in the state of a disused quarry. It was necessary, now that Roman soldiers were often stationed in the city, and men of all nations came to it, to provide some burial-place for them; but no Jew would admit their bones into the sepulchre of his fathers. On the other hand, every devout Jew would shrink from the thought of burying his dead in the foul and hateful spot which had become the type of the unseen Gehenna. (See Notes on Matthew 5:22.) There was, therefore, a subtle fitness of association in the policy which the priests adopted. The place was itself accursed; it was bought with accursed money; it was to be used for the burial of the accursed strangers.