Matthew 27:8

8 That's why that field has been called the Field of Blood ever since.

Matthew 27:8 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 27:8

Wherefore that field was called
Not by the priests and elders, but by the common people, who knew by what money it was purchased,

the field of blood;
or "Aceldama", which so signifies, as in ( Acts 1:19 ) , not called the field of the priests, the purchasers; nor the field of the strangers, for whom it was bought; but the field of blood, being purchased with that money, for which innocent blood was betrayed; and this name it bore

unto this day;
in which Matthew wrote his Gospel, about eight years after, as is thought. Jerom ^F24 says, that in his time this field was shown on the south side of Mount Sion.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 De locis Hebraicis.

Matthew 27:8 In-Context

6 The chief priests took the money and said, "It's not right to put it into the temple treasury, because it's blood money."

7 So they decided to use it to buy a potter's field for the burial of strangers.

8 That's why that field has been called the Field of Blood ever since.

9 Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true, "They took the 30 silver coins, the price the people of Israel had placed on him,

10 and used the coins to buy a potter's field, as the Lord had directed me."