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But the chief priests, having taken the silver-coins, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple-treasury, since it is the price of blood”. And having taken counsel, they bought the field of the potter with[a] them, for a burial-place for strangers. For this reason[b], that field was called the Field of Blood up to today.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:7 Lit, for them, for [the value of] them.
  2. Matthew 27:8 That is, because it was bought with blood money.

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