And the chief Priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for us to put them into the [a]treasure, because it is the price [b]of blood.

And they took counsel, and bought with them a potter’s field, for the burial of [c]strangers.

Wherefore that field is called, (A)The field of blood, until this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:6 The treasury of the Temple.
  2. Matthew 27:6 Of life and death.
  3. Matthew 27:7 Strangers and guests, whom the Jews could not abide to be joined unto, no not after they were dead.

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