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  • Matthew 27:7
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 7 After consulting together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers.

  • Matthew 27:7
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 7 After consulting together, they bought with them the potter’s field to bury strangers.

  • Matthew 27:7
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 7 συμβούλιον counsel together δὲ but λαβόντες having taken ἠγόρασαν they bought ἐξ out of αὐτῶν them τὸν the ᾿Αγρὸν Field τοῦ of the Κεραμέως Potter εἰς into ταφὴν burial τοῖς to the ξένοις. strangers.

  • Matthew 27:7
    King James Version
    • 7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

  • Matthew 27:7
    American Standard Version
    • 7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

  • Matthew 27:7
    The Bible in Living English
    • 7 and they decided on buying the potter’s field with it for a burying-ground for strangers, and did so;

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2019
    • 27:7 it-1 68-69, 1119-1120; it-2 130-131, 658-659

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 27:7 pm 322-323; ad 48, 626, 774, 914, 977, 1324, 1360; g65 3/8 27; g65 3/22 28; mg63 94

  • Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 27
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 27:7

      they used the money: Matthew alone specifies that the chief priests used the 30 silver pieces to purchase a piece of property. Ac 1:18, 19 attributes the purchase to Judas, but this is evidently because the chief priests purchased the field with the money Judas provided.

      potter’s field: Since the fourth century C.E., this field has been identified with a location on the S slope of the Hinnom Valley, just before it joins the Kidron Valley. This seems to have been an area where potters pursued their craft. As shown at Mt 27:8 and Ac 1:19, the field came to be known as “Field of Blood,” or Akeldama.​—See App. B12.

      strangers: That is, Jews visiting from other lands or Gentiles.

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