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“And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.”
Matthew 27:7 (KJV)
Commentary on Matthew 27:7
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.The chief priests' dilemma with Judas's blood money (thirty silver pieces) reveals their hypocritical legalism. The Greek symboulion lambanō ("took counsel") indicates deliberation - they couldn't return blood money to the treasury (korban, dedicated to God) yet had no qualms about using it for Jesus' crucifixion. Their solution: purchase agros kerameus ("potter's field"), likely depleted clay deposits worthless for agriculture, to bury xenoi ("strangers," foreigners, those without family burial sites).This fu...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
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