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Selected Verse: Matthew 27:8 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Mt 27:8 |
Strong Concordance |
Wherefore [1352] that [1565] field [68] was called [2564], The field [68] of blood [129], unto [2193] this day [4594]. |
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King James |
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The field of blood - The field purchased by the price of blood. The name by which this field was called was "Aceldama," Act 1:19. It was just without the walls of Jerusalem, on the south of Mount Zion. It is now used as a burying-place by the Armenian Christians in Jerusalem, who have a magnificent convent on Mount Zion - Missionary Herald, 1824, p. 66. See the plan of Jerusalem.
To this day - That is, to the day when Matthew wrote this gospel, about 30 years after the field was purchased. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The field of blood - In vain do the wicked attempt to conceal themselves; God makes them instrumental in discovering their own wickedness. Judas, by returning the money, and the priests, by laying it out, raise to themselves an eternal monument - the one of his treachery, the others of their perfidiousness, and both of the innocence of Jesus Christ. As, long as the Jewish polity continued, it might be said, "This is the field that was bought from the potter with the money which Judas got from the high priests for betraying his Master; which he, in deep compunction of spirit, brought back to them, and they bought this ground for a burial-place for strangers: for as it was the price of the blood of an innocent man, they did not think proper to let it rest in the treasury of the temple where the traitor had thrown it, who afterwards, in despair, went and hanged himself." What a standing proof must this have been of the innocence of Christ, and of their perfidy! |
19 And [2532] it was [1096] known [1110] unto all [3956] the dwellers [2730] at Jerusalem [2419]; insomuch as [5620] that [1565] field [5564] is called [2564] in their [846] proper [2398] tongue [1258], Aceldama [184], that is to say [5123], The field [5564] of blood [129].