Matthew 27:8

Legacy Standard Bible

For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore that field has been called “Blood Field” to this day.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood vnto this day.

King James Version
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

English Standard Version
Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

New American Standard Bible
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

New Century Version
That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood.

Amplified Bible
Therefore that piece of ground has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Berean Standard Bible
That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Contemporary English Version
That's why people still call that place "Field of Blood."

Complete Jewish Bible
This is how it came to be called the Field of Blood, a name it still bears.

Darby Translation
Wherefore that field has been called Blood-field unto this day.

Easy-to-Read Version
That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore that field is called, The field of bloud, vntill this day.

George Lamsa Translation
On this account that field was called The field of blood, to this day.

Good News Translation
That is why that field is called "Field of Blood" to this very day.

Lexham English Bible
(For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.)

Literal Translation
So that field was called Field of Blood until today.

American Standard Version
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

Bible in Basic English
For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

International Standard Version
That is why that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.Acts 1:19;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, until this day.

Murdock Translation
Wherefore that field is called the field of blood, unto this day.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore that fielde is called the fielde of blood, vntyll this day.

English Revised Version
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

World English Bible
Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood unto this day.

Weymouth's New Testament
for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Herfor thilke feeld is clepid Acheldemac, that is, a feeld of blood, in to this dai.

Update Bible Version
Therefore that field was called, the field of blood, to this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, to this day.

New English Translation
For this reason that field has been called the "Field of Blood" to this day.

New King James Version
Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

New Living Translation
That is why the field is still called the Field of Blood.

New Life Bible
Because of this, that land is called the Field of Blood to this day.

New Revised Standard
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, that field hath been called Field of Blood, until this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore that felde is called the felde of bloud vntyll this daye.

Young's Literal Translation
therefore was that field called, `Field of blood,' unto this day.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore the same felde is called the bloudfelde vnto this daye.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for this reason the field is called the field of blood to this day.

Simplified Cowboy Version
That place is still called the field of blood to this day.

Contextual Overview

¹Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel together against Jesus to put Him to death; ²and they bound Him, and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor. ³Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, ⁴saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? See to that yourself!" ⁵And he threw the pieces of silver into the sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself. ⁶And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood." ⁷And taking counsel together, they bought with the money the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers. ⁸For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. ⁹Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been set by the sons of Israel; ¹⁰and they gave them for the Potter's Field, as the Lord directed me."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that: Acts 1:19

unto: Matthew 28:15, Deuteronomy 34:6, Joshua 4:9, Judges 1:26, 2 Chronicles 5:9

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 4:43 - unto this day

Cross-References

Genesis 25:23
And Yahweh said to her,"Two nations are in your womb;And two peoples will be separated from your body;And one people shall be stronger than the other;And the older shall serve the younger."

Genesis 27:13
But his mother said to him, "Your curse be on me, my son; only listen to my voice, and go, get them for me."

Genesis 27:43
So now, my son, listen to my voice, and arise, flee to Haran, to my brother Laban!

Acts 4:19
But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, you be the judge;

Acts 5:29
But Peter and the apostles answered and said, "We must obey God rather than men.

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore that field was called,.... Not by the priests and elders, but by the common people, who knew by what money it was purchased,

the field of blood; or "Aceldama", which so signifies, as in Acts 1:19, not called the field of the priests, the purchasers; nor the field of the strangers, for whom it was bought; but the field of blood, being purchased with that money, for which innocent blood was betrayed; and this name it bore

unto this day; in which Matthew wrote his Gospel, about eight years after, as is thought. Jerom x says, that in his time this field was shown on the south side of Mount Sion.

x De locis Hebraicis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The field of blood - The field purchased by the price of blood. The name by which this field was called was “Aceldama,” Acts 1:19. It was just without the walls of Jerusalem, on the south of Mount Zion. It is now used as a burying-place by the Armenian Christians in Jerusalem, who have a magnificent convent on Mount Zion - Missionary Herald, 1824, p. 66. See the plan of Jerusalem.

To this day - That is, to the day when Matthew wrote this gospel, about 30 years after the field was purchased.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 27:8. The field of blood — In vain do the wicked attempt to conceal themselves; God makes them instrumental in discovering their own wickedness. Judas, by returning the money, and the priests, by laying it out, raise to themselves an eternal monument - the one of his treachery, the others of their perfidiousness, and both of the innocence of Jesus Christ. As, long as the Jewish polity continued, it might be said, "This is the field that was bought from the potter with the money which Judas got from the high priests for betraying his Master; which he, in deep compunction of spirit, brought back to them, and they bought this ground for a burial-place for strangers: for as it was the price of the blood of an innocent man, they did not think proper to let it rest in the treasury of the temple where the traitor had thrown it, who afterwards, in despair, went and hanged himself." What a standing proof must this have been of the innocence of Christ, and of their perfidy!