NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Matthew 27:7

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They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.

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Matthew 27:4–10

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saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.”

But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”

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He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary and departed. Then he went away and hanged himself.

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The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

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They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.

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Therefore that field has been called “The Field of Blood” to this day.

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Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

“They took the thirty pieces of silver,

the price of him upon whom a price had been set,

whom some of the children of Israel priced,

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and they gave them for the potter’s field,

as the Lord commanded me.”

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