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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].
  King James Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

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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.
 
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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].