Matthew Chapter 27 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV Matthew 27:8

Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.
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BBE Matthew 27:8

For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.
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DARBY Matthew 27:8

Wherefore that field has been called Blood-field unto this day.
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KJV Matthew 27:8

Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
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WEB Matthew 27:8

Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.
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YLT Matthew 27:8

therefore was that field called, `Field of blood,' unto this day.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - The field of blood. Aceldama (Acts 1:19), the Syriac name. It was so called (διὸ) from the circumstances attending its purchase, which gave it an evil notoriety, and which the priests must have divulged. "This also," says Chrysostom, taking the blood to be that of Jesus, "became a witness against them, and a proof of their treason. For the name of the place more clearly than a trumpet proclaimed their blood guiltiness." Unto this day. Until the time when this Gospel was published, the new appellation obtained. It is implied that a considerable interval had elapsed. Such chronological hints are often found in the Old Testament (cf. Genesis 19:37, 38; Joshua 4:9, etc.).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) The field of blood.--St. Luke (Acts 1:19) gives the Aramaic form, Akeldama, but assigns the death of Judas in a field which he had bought as the origin of the name. It is possible that two spots may have been known by the same name for distinct reasons, and the fact that two places have been shown as the Field of Blood from the time of Jerome downwards, is, as far as it goes, in favour of this view. It is equally possible, on the other hand, that Judas may have gone, before or after the purchase, to the ground which, bought with his money, was, in some sense his own, and there ended his despair, dying literally in Gehenna, and buried, not in the grave of his fathers at Kerioth, but as an outcast, with none to mourn over him, in the cemetery of the aliens.Unto this day.--The phrase suggests here, as again in Matthew 28:15, an interval, more or less considerable, between the events and the record. (Comp. the Introduction as to the date of the Gospel.)