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Matthew 27:7
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They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners.
And they tooke counsell, and bought with them the potters field, to burie strangers in.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.
And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.
So they decided to use the coins to buy Potter's Field as a place to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem.
So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.
And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.
And taking counsel together, they bought with the money the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.
After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.
Then they had a meeting and decided to buy a field that belonged to someone who made clay pots. They wanted to use it as a graveyard for foreigners.
So they decided to use it to buy the potter's field as a cemetery for foreigners.
And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.
So they decided to use the money to buy a field called Potter's Field. This field would be a place to bury people who died while visiting in Jerusalem.
And they tooke counsell, and bought with them a potters fielde, for the buriall of strangers.
And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter''s field, for a cemetery for strangers.
After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.
And after taking counsel, they purchased with them the Potter's Field, for a burial place for strangers.
And taking counsel, they bought of them the potter's field, for burial for the strangers.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.
They took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.
And they took counsel, and bought with it the field of the potter, for the burial-place of strangers.
And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter's field, for a place to bury strangers.
And they toke councell, and bought with them a potters fielde, to burye straungers in.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
They took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
And having consulted together, they bought with them the potters field, to bury foreigners in.
So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;
And whanne thei hadden take counsel, thei bouyten with it a feeld of a potter, in to biryyng of pilgrymys.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
After consulting together they bought the Potter's Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.
And they consulted together and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
After some discussion they finally decided to buy the potter's field, and they made it into a cemetery for foreigners.
They talked about what to do with the money. Then they decided to buy land to bury strangers in.
After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter's field as a place to bury foreigners.
And, taking counsel, they bought with them, the field of the potter, as a burial-place for strangers.
And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter’s field, to be a burying place for strangers.
So they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
And they toke counsell and bought with them a potters felde to bury strangers in.
and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers;
Neuertheles they helde a councell, and bought with the a potters felde, for to burye straugers in.
and having consulted together, they laid out the money in buying the potter's field, to serve for a burying place for strangers.
So they used the money to buy a little plot of land to use as a cemetery for foreigners.
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And this [is] the blessing [with] which Moses the man of God blessed the sons of Israel before his death,
And Joshua adjures [them] at that time, saying, "Cursed [is] the man before YHWH who raises up and has built this city, [even] Jericho; he lays its foundation in his firstborn, and he sets up its doors in his youngest."
and that a man finds his enemy, and has sent him away in a good manner; and YHWH repays you good for that which you did to me this day.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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,
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And they took counsel ... - They consulted among themselves about the proper way to dispose of this money.
And bought with them - In Acts 1:18, it is said of Judas that âhe purchased a field with the reward of his iniquity.â By the passage in the Acts is meant no more than that he âfurnished the meansâ or âwas the occasionâ of purchasing the field. It is not of necessity implied that Judas actually made the contract and paid down the money to buy a field to bury strangers in - a thing which would be in itself very improbable, but that it was âby his meansâ that the field was purchased. It is very frequent in the Scriptures, as well as in other writings, to represent a man as doing that which he is only the cause or occasion of anotherâs doing. See Acts 2:23; John 19:1; Matthew 27:59-60.
The potterâs field - Probably this was some field well known by that name, which was used for the purpose of making earthen vessels. The price paid for a field so near Jerusalem may appear to be very small; but it is not improbable that it had been worked until the clay was exhausted, and was neither suitable for that business nor for tillage, and was therefore considered as of little value.
To bury strangers in - Jews, who came up from other parts of the world to attend the great feasts at Jerusalem. The high priests, who regarded the âGentilesâ as abominable, would not be inclined to provide a burial-place for them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 27:7. To bury strangers in. — ÏÎ¿Î¹Ï Î¾ÎµÎ½Î¿Î¹Ï, the strangers, probably meaning, as some learned men conjecture, the Jewish strangers who might have come to Jerusalem, either to worship, or on some other business, and died there during their stay. See here, the very money for which the blessed Jesus was sold becomes subservient to the purpose of mercy and kindness! The bodies of strangers have a place of rest in the field purchased by the price at which his life was valued, and the souls of strangers and foreigners have a place of rest and refuge in his blood which was shed as a ransom price for the salvation of the whole world.
