Mateo 27:7

7 Luego de discutir unos instantes, finalmente decidieron comprar el campo del alfarero y convertirlo en un cementerio para extranjeros.

Mateo 27:7 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 27:7

And they took counsel
With one another, considered of the matter, and deliberated about it a while; and at last came to a resolution,

and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in:
a field of no great value, or it could not have been bought so near Jerusalem for so small a sum as thirty pieces of silver. Grotius's conjecture seems to be a good one, that it was a field the potter had dug up for his use, and had made the most of it; so that it was good for nothing, but for the purpose for which these men bought it, "to bury strangers in": either such as were not of their own nation, as the Roman soldiers, many of which were among them, and who they did not suffer to be buried among them; or proselytes, or such as came from distant parts, at their three festivals, many of whom may be supposed to die at such times: now by this act of humanity in providing for the interment of strangers, they designed, and hoped to have covered their wickedness in bargaining with Judas to betray innocent blood, for this sure of money; but it was so ordered by divine providence, that this became a public and lasting memorial of their sin and infamy: for it follows,

Mateo 27:7 In-Context

5 Entonces Judas tiró las monedas de plata en el templo, salió y se ahorcó.

6 Los principales sacerdotes recogieron las monedas. «No sería correcto poner este dinero en el tesoro del templo —dijeron—, ya que se usó para pagar un asesinato
».

7 Luego de discutir unos instantes, finalmente decidieron comprar el campo del alfarero y convertirlo en un cementerio para extranjeros.

8 Por eso todavía se llama el Campo de Sangre.

9 Así se cumplió la profecía de Jeremías que dice:
«Tomaron
las treinta piezas de plata
—el precio que el pueblo de Israel le puso a él—