Matthew 27:8

New Century Version

That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore that field has been called “Blood Field” to this day.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood vnto this day.

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

English Standard Version
Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

New American Standard Bible
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Amplified Bible
Therefore that piece of ground has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Legacy Standard Bible
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Berean Standard Bible
That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Contemporary English Version
That's why people still call that place "Field of Blood."

Complete Jewish Bible
This is how it came to be called the Field of Blood, a name it still bears.

Darby Translation
Wherefore that field has been called Blood-field unto this day.

Easy-to-Read Version
That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore that field is called, The field of bloud, vntill this day.

George Lamsa Translation
On this account that field was called The field of blood, to this day.

Good News Translation
That is why that field is called "Field of Blood" to this very day.

Lexham English Bible
(For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.)

Literal Translation
So that field was called Field of Blood until today.

American Standard Version
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

Bible in Basic English
For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

International Standard Version
That is why that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.Acts 1:19;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, until this day.

Murdock Translation
Wherefore that field is called the field of blood, unto this day.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore that fielde is called the fielde of blood, vntyll this day.

English Revised Version
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

World English Bible
Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood unto this day.

Weymouth's New Testament
for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Herfor thilke feeld is clepid Acheldemac, that is, a feeld of blood, in to this dai.

Update Bible Version
Therefore that field was called, the field of blood, to this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, to this day.

New English Translation
For this reason that field has been called the "Field of Blood" to this day.

New King James Version
Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

New Living Translation
That is why the field is still called the Field of Blood.

New Life Bible
Because of this, that land is called the Field of Blood to this day.

New Revised Standard
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, that field hath been called Field of Blood, until this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore that felde is called the felde of bloud vntyll this daye.

Young's Literal Translation
therefore was that field called, `Field of blood,' unto this day.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore the same felde is called the bloudfelde vnto this daye.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for this reason the field is called the field of blood to this day.

Simplified Cowboy Version
That place is still called the field of blood to this day.

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Acts 1:19

unto: Matthew 28:15, Deuteronomy 34:6, Joshua 4:9, Judges 1:26, 2 Chronicles 5:9

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 4:43 - unto this day

Cross-References

Genesis 25:23
The Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your body, and two groups of people will be taken from you. One group will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger."

Genesis 27:13
So Rebekah said to him, "If your father puts a curse on you, I will accept the blame. Just do what I said. Go get the goats for me."

Genesis 27:43
So, my son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him at once!

Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered them, "You decide what God would want. Should we obey you or God?

Acts 5:29
Peter and the other apostles answered, "We must obey God, not human authority!

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents as the Lord wants, because this is the right thing to do.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore that field was called,.... Not by the priests and elders, but by the common people, who knew by what money it was purchased,

the field of blood; or "Aceldama", which so signifies, as in Acts 1:19, not called the field of the priests, the purchasers; nor the field of the strangers, for whom it was bought; but the field of blood, being purchased with that money, for which innocent blood was betrayed; and this name it bore

unto this day; in which Matthew wrote his Gospel, about eight years after, as is thought. Jerom x says, that in his time this field was shown on the south side of Mount Sion.

x De locis Hebraicis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The field of blood - The field purchased by the price of blood. The name by which this field was called was “Aceldama,” Acts 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 27:8. 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!