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After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners. For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah,[a] ‘And they took[b] the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been set,[c] on whom some of the people of Israel had set a price,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:9 Other ancient authorities read Zechariah or Isaiah
  2. Matthew 27:9 Or I took
  3. Matthew 27:9 Or the price of the precious One

So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood(A) to this day. Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:(B) “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel,

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