Matthew 27:10

New Century Version

They used those thirty silver coins to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.

King James Version (1611)
And gaue them for the potters field, as the Lord appointed me.)

King James Version
And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.

English Standard Version
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."

New American Standard Bible
AND THEY GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD, JUST AS THE LORD DIRECTED ME."

Amplified Bible
AND THEY GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD, AS THE LORD DIRECTED ME."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
AND THEY GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD, AS THE LORD DIRECTED ME."

Legacy Standard Bible
and they gave them for the Potter's Field, as the Lord directed me."

Berean Standard Bible
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord had commanded me."

Contemporary English Version
They paid it for a potter's field, as the Lord had commanded me."

Complete Jewish Bible
and used them to buy the potter's field, just as the Lord directed me. "

Darby Translation
and they gave them for the field of the potter, according as [the] Lord commanded me.

Easy-to-Read Version
They used those 30 silver coins to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they gaue them for the potters fielde, as the Lord appointed me.)

George Lamsa Translation
And I gave them for the potter''s field, as the Lord commanded me.

Good News Translation
and used the money to buy the potter's field, as the Lord had commanded me."

Lexham English Bible
and they gave them for the potter's field, just as the Lord directed me."

Literal Translation
and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me. Zech. 11:12, 13

American Standard Version
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.

Bible in Basic English
And they gave them for the potter's field, as I had word from the Lord.

Hebrew Names Version
And they gave them for the potter's field, As the Lord commanded me."

International Standard Version
and theyI">[fn] gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."Zechariah 11:12-13; Jeremiah 32:6-9">[fn]

Etheridge Translation
and gave them for the field of the potter, as the Lord commanded me.

Murdock Translation
and I gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And gaue them for the potters fielde, as the Lorde appoynted me.)

English Revised Version
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.

World English Bible
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And gave them for the potters field, as the Lord commanded me.

Weymouth's New Testament
and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thei yauen hem in to a feeld of a potter, as the Lord hath ordenyd to me.

Update Bible Version
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.

Webster's Bible Translation
And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.

New English Translation
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

New King James Version
and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me." Jeremiah 32:6-9">[fn]

New Living Translation
and purchased the potter's field, as the Lord directed."

New Life Bible
And they bought land to bury strangers in, as the Lord told me."

New Revised Standard
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And gave them for the field of the potter, as, the Lord, directed me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they gave them unto the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed to me.

Revised Standard Version
and they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord directed me."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and they gave them for the potters felde as the Lorde appoynted me.

Young's Literal Translation
and gave them for the field of the potter, as the Lord did appoint to me.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and these they gaue for a potters felde, as the LORDE commaunded me.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me."

Simplified Cowboy Version
and used it to buy the foreigners' field."

Contextual Overview

¹ Early the next morning, all the leading priests and elders of the people decided that Jesus should die. ² They tied him, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate, the governor. ³ Judas, the one who had given Jesus to his enemies, saw that they had decided to kill Jesus. Then he was very sorry for what he had done. So he took the thirty silver coins back to the priests and the leaders, ⁴ saying, "I sinned; I handed over to you an innocent man." The leaders answered, "What is that to us? That's your problem, not ours." ⁵ So Judas threw the money into the Temple. Then he went off and hanged himself. ⁶ The leading priests picked up the silver coins in the Temple and said, "Our law does not allow us to keep this money with the Temple money, because it has paid for a man's death." ⁷ So they decided to use the coins to buy Potter's Field as a place to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem. ⁸ That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood. ⁹ So what Jeremiah the prophet had said came true: "They took thirty silver coins. That is how little the Israelites thought he was worth. ¹⁰ They used those thirty silver coins to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Leviticus 27:4 - thirty shekels Isaiah 53:3 - we hid as it were our faces from him

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And gave them for the potter's field,.... In the prophet it is, "and I cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord",

Zechariah 11:13; whereas here it is, "they gave them"; but the word Matthew uses may be rendered, "I gave", as it is by the Syriac; and as the last words require it should, "as the Lord commanded me"; otherwise there will be no coherence between them: and whereas the thirty pieces of silver are, in the prophet, said to be cast, or given "to the potter", and here, "for the potter's field", there is no contradiction: the plain sense is, that they were given to the potter, as a valuable consideration for his field: and whereas it is added, "in the house of the Lord", which the evangelist does not cite the reason is, because this money was first cast down in the temple by Judas, and after being taken up by the priests, they covenanted with the potter for his field, and paid him for it with this money in the sanctuary. The evangelist, instead of this last clause, puts,

as the Lord commanded me; which have made some think, that there should: be a different reading; and that instead of בית, "the house", it should be read כדת, "according to the commandment": but there is no need to suppose this: the evangelist is justified in the use of this phrase, by what is said in the prophet in the beginning of Zechariah 11:13, "and the Lord said unto me": and this is only a transposition and explanation, according to a rule the Jews have,

סרס המקרא ודרשהו, "invert, or transpose the Scripture, and explain it" e. Should it be said that the Messiah, and not the betrayer, nor the priests, is said to cast this money to the potter, or give it for the potter's field; it may be replied, that Jesus may be said to do that which Judas, and the chief priests did; because, by his almighty power and providence, he overruled those things for good, which in themselves were evil. Judas thought to have converted the money to his own use, and the priests would have been glad to have taken it again to themselves; but Christ obliged Judas to carry back the money to the priests, and cast it into the temple, and worked upon the minds of the priests, not to put it into the treasury, but to buy the potter's field with it, whereby the prophecy, in its literal sense, was fully accomplished.

e T. Bab. Bava Bathra, fol. 119. 2. & Vajikra Rabba, sect. 27. fol. 167. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And gave them - In Zechariah it is, I gave them. Here it is represented as being given by the priests. The meaning is not, however, different. It is, that this price “was given” for the potter’s field.

As the Lord appointed me - That is, “commanded” me. The meaning of the place in Zechariah is this: He was directed to go to the Jews as a prophet - a pastor of the people. They treated him, as they had done others, with great contempt. He asks them to give him “his price” - that is, the price which they thought he and his pastoral labors were worth, or to show their estimate of his office. If they thought it of value, they were to pay him accordingly; if not, they were to “forbear” - that is, to give nothing. To show their “great contempt” of him and his office, and of God who had sent him, they gave him thirty pieces of silver - “the price of a slave.” This God commanded or “appointed him” to give to the potter, or to throw into the pottery to throw away. So in the time of Jesus the same thing was substantially repeated. Jesus came as the Messiah. They hated and rejected him. To show their contempt of him and his cause, they valued him “at the price of a slave.” This was thrown down in the temple, taken by the priests, and appropriated to the purchase of a field owned by a “potter” - worn-out land of little or no value; all showing at how low a price, through the whole transaction, the Son of God was estimated. Though the words quoted here are not precisely like those in Zechariah, yet the sense and general structure are the same.