Hechos 1:19

19 Y fue notorio a todos los moradores de Jerusalén; de tal manera que aquel campo es llamado en su propia lengua, Acéldama, que es, Campo de sangre

Hechos 1:19 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 1:19

And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem
As that he betrayed Jesus of Nazareth into the hands of the chief priests, for thirty pieces of silver; that this was the reward of his iniquity; and that with this a field was purchased for the burying of strangers in; and that he died in such a miserable way: there was scarce an inhabitant in Jerusalem but knew all this,

insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue;
or "in their own dialect", the "Jerusalem dialect", Which was now Chaldee, or Syriac; and such is the word that follows, "Aceldama; that is to say, the field of blood": because it was bought with the price of Christ's blood: and if, as some say, Judas hanged him self here, or was thrown headlong here by Satan, and that this was the place where his bowels gushed out; then it may be likewise so called, because it was sprinkled with his blood. It is called in the Alexandrian copy "Acheldamach"; and often by Jerom ^F16 "Acheldemach", but very wrongly; for not "Demach", but "Dema", in the Syriac and Chaldee dialect, signifies "blood"; which Peter calls the dialect of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, being now spoken by them, in distinction from the Galilean dialect used by him; which, it is plain, was different from the Jerusalem dialect by what is said, ( Mark 14:70 ) . This field, as it is reported by some, was by the appointment of the Empress Helena compassed about with four walls, in the manner of a tower, upon the top of which are seven distinct doors, like windows, by which the dead bodies of Christians are let down into it; and that it is fifty feet wide, and seventy two long: it stands not far from the valley of Himom, and is upon the south side of Mount Zion, where, as Jerom says ^F17, it was showed in his time. Masius ^F18 affirms, there was a very high mountain near Jerusalem, called Mount Aceldema, from the adjacent field, which was bought with the price of Christ's blood, to bury strangers in.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Comment. in Psal. 108. fol. 73. D. & de locis Hebraicis, fol. 89. C. & 95. H. & de Nominibus Hebraicis, fol. 105. H.
F17 De locis Hebraicis, ib.
F18 Comment. in Josuam, p. 283.

Hechos 1:19 In-Context

17 el cual era contado con nosotros, y tenía suerte o herencia en este ministerio

18 Este, pues, adquirió un campo con el salario de su iniquidad, y colgándose, se reventó por medio, y todas sus entrañas se derramaron

19 Y fue notorio a todos los moradores de Jerusalén; de tal manera que aquel campo es llamado en su propia lengua, Acéldama, que es, Campo de sangre

20 Porque está escrito en el libro de los Salmos: Sea hecha desierta su habitación, y no haya quien more en ella; y: Tome otro su oficio

21 Conviene, pues, que de estos hombres que han estado juntos con nosotros todo el tiempo en que el Señor Jesús entró y salió entre nosotros