Matthew 27:8

8 for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'

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 When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, "It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood."

7 So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;

8 for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'

9 Then were fulfilled the words spoken by the Prophet Jeremiah, "And I took the thirty shekels, the price of the prized one on whom Israelites had set a price,

10 and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."