Matthew 27:7 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

So they decided to use it to buy a potter's field for the burial of strangers.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

ASV:

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

BBE:

And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.

DBY:

And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.

ERV:

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

WEY:

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;

WBS:

And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

WEB:

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

YLT:

and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers;

Matthew 27:7 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 27:6 The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood."

Matthew 27:8 For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury {d} strangers in.
(d) Strangers and guests, whom the Jews could not endure to be joined with even after they were dead.

PNT:

27:7 The potter's field. A field that had been used for the purpose of making pottery until it was worthless for other purposes and could be bought cheap. Potters' fields are still found in the Kedron Valley south of the city.
To bury strangers in. A burial place for the poor. The Jews usually provided their own tombs. Peter, Ac 1:18, says that Judas fell down headlong and his bowels gushed out. The common explanation is that he hung himself on a tree overlooking the valley of Hinnom, that the rope gave way, and that he fell headlong upon the rocks below, a distance of forty to sixty feet.

WES:

27:7 They bought with them the potter's field - Well known, it seems, by that name. This was a small price for a field so near Jerusalem. But the earth had probably been digged for potters' vessels, so that it was now neither fit for tillage nor pasture, and consequently of small value. Foreigners - Heathens especially, of whom there were then great numbers in Jerusalem.

MHC:

27:1-10 Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when they commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manner Judas acknowledged to the chief priests that he had sinned, and betrayed an innocent person. This was full testimony to the character of Christ; but the rulers were hardened. Casting down the money, Judas departed, and went and hanged himself, not being able to bear the terror of Divine wrath, and the anguish of despair. There is little doubt but that the death of Judas was before that of our blessed Lord. But was it nothing to them that they had thirsted after this blood, and hired Judas to betray it, and had condemned it to be shed unjustly? Thus do fools make a mock at sin. Thus many make light of Christ crucified. And it is a common instance of the deceitfulness of our hearts, to make light of our own sin by dwelling upon other people's sins. But the judgment of God is according to truth. Many apply this passage of the buying the piece of ground, with the money Judas brought back, to signify the favour intended by the blood of Christ to strangers, and sinners of the Gentiles. It fulfilled a prophecy, Zec 11:12. Judas went far toward repentance, yet it was not to salvation. He confessed, but not to God; he did not go to him, and say, I have sinned, Father, against heaven. Let none be satisfied with such partial convictions as a man may have, and yet remain full of pride, enmity, and rebellion.

CONC:

Belonging Bought Burial Bury Burying-ground Buy Conferred Consulting Counsel Countries Dead Decision Field Foreigners Money Potter Potter's Purchase Silver Spent Strangers

Belonging Bought Burial Bury Buy City Conferred Consulting Counsel Countries Dead Decided Decision Field Foreigners Money Potter Potter's Purchase Silver Spent Strangers Together Use

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