And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
| Word | Greek | Strong’s | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| And | δὲ de | G1161 | but · conjunction |
| took | λαβόντες labontes | G2983 | while G138 (αἱρέομαι) is more violent · verb — second aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine |
| counsel | Συμβούλιον Sumboulion | G4824 | advisement · noun — accusative singular neuter |
| bought | ἠγόρασαν ēgorasan | G59 | properly · verb — aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural |
| with | ἐξ ex | G1537 | literal or figurative · preposition |
| them | αὐτῶν autōn | G846 | the reflexive pronoun self · personal pronoun — genitive plural neuter |
| potter’s | κεραμέως kerameōs | G2763 | a potter · noun — genitive singular masculine |
| field | ἀγρὸν agron | G68 | a field (as a drive for cattle) · noun — accusative singular masculine |
| bury | ταφὴν taphēn | G5027 | burial (the act) · noun — accusative singular feminine |
| strangers | ξένοις. xenois | G3581 | foreign (literally · adjective — dative plural masculine |
| in | εἰς eis | G1519 | to or into (indicating the point reached or entered) · preposition |
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And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury--"the Corban," or chest containing the money dedicated to sacred purposes (see on Mat 15:5). because it is the price of blood--How scrupulous now! But those punctilious scruples made them unconsciously fulfil the Scripture.
And they took counsel,.... With one another, considered of the matter, and deliberated about it a while; and at last came to a resolution, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in: a field of no great value, or it could not have been bought so near Jerusalem for so small a sum as thirty pieces of silver. Grotius's conjecture seems to be a good one, that it was a field the potter had dug up for his use, and had made the most of it; so that it was good for nothing, but for the purpose for which these men bought it, "to bury strangers in": either such as were not of their own nation, as the Roman soldiers, many of which were among them, and who they did not suffer to be bu…
Read the whole note in the consoleMatthew 27:1-10 Matthew 27:1-10 Mark 15:1 Luke 23:1 1. But when it was morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. 2. And they led him away bound, and delivered him to Pointius Pilate the governor. 3. Then Judas, who had betrayed him, perceiving that he was condemned, repented, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4. Saying, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5. And having thrown down the pieces of silver in the temple, he retired, and went away, and strangled himself. 6. And the chief priests, having taken the pieces of silver…
Read the whole note in the consoleForeigners were Gentiles who died in Jerusalem. An asset whose owner could not be traced was used for public charity. In this instance, unclean money was used to buy an unclean place for unclean people.
Also we, who were strangers to the Law and the Prophets, have profited by the perverse temper of the Jews to obtain salvation for ourselves.
(Vers. 7, 8.) However, with a plan devised, they bought a field from that potter, for the burial of strangers, therefore that field was called Acheldemach, which means the field of blood, to this day. Indeed, they acted with a different intention, that they might leave a lasting monument of their impiety from the purchase of the land. But we, who were strangers to the Law and the prophets, have embraced their corrupt practices for salvation: and we find rest in the price of his blood. But the field is called 'figulus' because our potter is Christ.
They thought it meet to spend upon the dead that money which was the price of blood. But as there are differences even in burial places, they used the price of Jesus' blood in the purchase of some potter's field, where foreigners might be buried, not as they desired in the sepulchres of their fathers. Or, the foreigners are they who to the end are aliens from God, for the righteous are buried with Christ in a new tomb hewn out in the rock. But they who are aliens from God, even to the end, are buried in the field of a potter, a worker in clay, which being bought by the price of blood, is called the field of blood.
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