Matthew 27:7

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners.

King James Version (1611)
And they tooke counsell, and bought with them the potters field, to burie strangers in.

King James Version
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

English Standard Version
So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.

New American Standard Bible
And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.

New Century Version
So they decided to use the coins to buy Potter's Field as a place to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible
So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.

Legacy Standard Bible
And taking counsel together, they bought with the money the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers.

Berean Standard Bible
After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.

Contemporary English Version
Then they had a meeting and decided to buy a field that belonged to someone who made clay pots. They wanted to use it as a graveyard for foreigners.

Complete Jewish Bible
So they decided to use it to buy the potter's field as a cemetery for foreigners.

Darby Translation
And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.

Easy-to-Read Version
So they decided to use the money to buy a field called Potter's Field. This field would be a place to bury people who died while visiting in Jerusalem.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they tooke counsell, and bought with them a potters fielde, for the buriall of strangers.

George Lamsa Translation
And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter''s field, for a cemetery for strangers.

Good News Translation
After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.

Lexham English Bible
And after taking counsel, they purchased with them the Potter's Field, for a burial place for strangers.

Literal Translation
And taking counsel, they bought of them the potter's field, for burial for the strangers.

American Standard Version
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Bible in Basic English
And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.

Hebrew Names Version
They took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

International Standard Version
So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.

Etheridge Translation
And they took counsel, and bought with it the field of the potter, for the burial-place of strangers.

Murdock Translation
And they took counsel, and bought with it the potter's field, for a place to bury strangers.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they toke councell, and bought with them a potters fielde, to burye straungers in.

English Revised Version
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

World English Bible
They took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And having consulted together, they bought with them the potters field, to bury foreigners in.

Weymouth's New Testament
So after consulting together they spent the money in the purchase of the Potter's Field as a burial place for people not belonging to the city;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And whanne thei hadden take counsel, thei bouyten with it a feeld of a potter, in to biryyng of pilgrymys.

Update Bible Version
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

New English Translation
After consulting together they bought the Potter's Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.

New King James Version
And they consulted together and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

New Living Translation
After some discussion they finally decided to buy the potter's field, and they made it into a cemetery for foreigners.

New Life Bible
They talked about what to do with the money. Then they decided to buy land to bury strangers in.

New Revised Standard
After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter's field as a place to bury foreigners.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, taking counsel, they bought with them, the field of the potter, as a burial-place for strangers.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter’s field, to be a burying place for strangers.

Revised Standard Version
So they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they toke counsell and bought with them a potters felde to bury strangers in.

Young's Literal Translation
and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Neuertheles they helde a councell, and bought with the a potters felde, for to burye straugers in.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and having consulted together, they laid out the money in buying the potter's field, to serve for a burying place for strangers.

Simplified Cowboy Version
So they used the money to buy a little plot of land to use as a cemetery for foreigners.

Contextual Overview

¹In the first light of dawn, all the high priests and religious leaders met and put the finishing touches on their plot to kill Jesus. Then they tied him up and paraded him to Pilate, the governor. ³Judas, the one who betrayed him, realized that Jesus was doomed. Overcome with remorse, he gave back the thirty silver coins to the high priests, saying, "I've sinned. I've betrayed an innocent man." They said, "What do we care? That's your problem!" ⁵ Judas threw the silver coins into the Temple and left. Then he went out and hung himself. ⁶The high priests picked up the silver pieces, but then didn't know what to do with them. "It wouldn't be right to give this—a payment for murder!—as an offering in the Temple." They decided to get rid of it by buying the "Potter's Field" and use it as a burial place for the homeless. That's how the field got called "Murder Meadow," a name that has stuck to this day. Then Jeremiah's words became history: They took the thirty silver pieces, The price of the one priced by some sons of Israel, And they purchased the potter's field. And so they unwittingly followed the divine instructions to the letter.

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Cross-References

Deuteronomy 33:1
Moses, man of God, blessed the People of Israel with this blessing before his death. He said, God came down from Sinai, he dawned from Seir upon them; He radiated light from Mount Paran, coming with ten thousand holy angels And tongues of fire streaming from his right hand. Oh, how you love the people, all his holy ones are palmed in your left hand. They sit at your feet, honoring your teaching, The Revelation commanded by Moses, as the assembly of Jacob's inheritance. Thus God became king in Jeshurun as the leaders and tribes of Israel gathered.

Joshua 6:26
Joshua swore a solemn oath at that time: Cursed before God is the man who sets out to rebuild this city Jericho. He'll pay for the foundation with his firstborn son, he'll pay for the gates with his youngest son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 buried among them; or proselytes, or such as came from distant parts, at their three festivals, many of whom may be supposed to die at such times: now by this act of humanity in providing for the interment of strangers, they designed, and hoped to have covered their wickedness in bargaining with Judas to betray innocent blood, for this sure of money; but it was so ordered by divine providence, that this became a public and lasting memorial of their sin and infamy: for it follows,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they took counsel ... - They consulted among themselves about the proper way to dispose of this money.

And bought with them - In Acts 1:18, it is said of Judas that “he purchased a field with the reward of his iniquity.” By the passage in the Acts is meant no more than that he “furnished the means” or “was the occasion” of purchasing the field. It is not of necessity implied that Judas actually made the contract and paid down the money to buy a field to bury strangers in - a thing which would be in itself very improbable, but that it was “by his means” that the field was purchased. It is very frequent in the Scriptures, as well as in other writings, to represent a man as doing that which he is only the cause or occasion of another’s doing. See Acts 2:23; John 19:1; Matthew 27:59-60.

The potter’s field - Probably this was some field well known by that name, which was used for the purpose of making earthen vessels. The price paid for a field so near Jerusalem may appear to be very small; but it is not improbable that it had been worked until the clay was exhausted, and was neither suitable for that business nor for tillage, and was therefore considered as of little value.

To bury strangers in - Jews, who came up from other parts of the world to attend the great feasts at Jerusalem. The high priests, who regarded the “Gentiles” as abominable, would not be inclined to provide a burial-place for them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 27:7. To bury strangers in. — τοις ξενοις, the strangers, probably meaning, as some learned men conjecture, the Jewish strangers who might have come to Jerusalem, either to worship, or on some other business, and died there during their stay. See here, the very money for which the blessed Jesus was sold becomes subservient to the purpose of mercy and kindness! The bodies of strangers have a place of rest in the field purchased by the price at which his life was valued, and the souls of strangers and foreigners have a place of rest and refuge in his blood which was shed as a ransom price for the salvation of the whole world.