The chief priests took the silver and said, “It’s not lawful(A) to put it into the temple treasury,[a] since it is blood money.”[b] So they conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners. Therefore that field has been called “Blood Field” to this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:6 See Mk 7:11 where the same Gk word (Corban) means a gift pledged to the temple.
  2. Matthew 27:6 Lit the price of blood

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