George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Matthew 27:8
Haceldama is a Syriac word: it is not the Greek; and some conjecture, that it found its way hither from the first chapter of the Acts, ver. 19. (Bible de Vence)
Haceldama is a Syriac word: it is not the Greek; and some conjecture, that it found its way hither from the first chapter of the Acts, ver. 19. (Bible de Vence)
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...
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 Zio...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
THE DEATH OF JUDAS. Mt. only, but for a variant account see Acts 1:18 f. This section breaks the narrative, and its historicity is not beyond question. The evangelist has in mind Zechariah 11:12 f.*,...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
When Judas the traitor saw that Jesus had been condemned, he repented, and he brought the thirty shekels back to the chief priests and the elders. "I have sinned, he said, "for I have betrayed an inno...
THE REMORSE OF JUDAS. HE RETURNS THE SILVER SHEKELS. THE USE MADE OF THEM Peculiar to St Matthew....
ἝΩΣ ΤΗ͂Σ ΣΉΜΕΡΟΝ (ἩΜΈΡΑΣ). Cp. Latin, ‘hodierno die,’ Cic. _Cat._ III. 9. 21, and frequently....
Ver 6. And the Chief Priests took the silver pieces, and said, "It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood." 7. And they took counsel, and bought with them th...
_JESUS' BETRAYER HANGS HIMSELF MATTHEW 27:1-10:_ The chief priests and elders wanted Jesus put to death. Pilate was the person used to accomplish their wicked purpose. They thought that Pilate would b...
ΈΚΛΉΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать, именовать....
THE TREASURY, &C.— Κορβαναν : the place where the gifts set apart for the service of the temple, and for other pious uses, were deposited, 2 Kings 12:10. Mark 12:41. Such an offering as this _price of...
SECTION 72 JESUS-' BETRAYER COMMITS SUICIDE TEXT: 27:3-10 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chie...
SECTION 73 JESUS IS TRIED BY PILATE, CONDEMNED AND SCOURGED (Parallels: Mark 15:2-20; Luke 23:1-25; John 18:28 to John 19:16) TEXT: 27:
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. WHEREFORE THAT FIELD WAS CALLED, THE FIELD OF BLOOD, UNTO THIS DAY....
THE FIELD OF BLOOD (Heb. _Aceldama_)] In Acts it receives its name from the death of Judas in it....
END OF JUDAS (see Acts 1:18). The divergences of the two accounts of the end of Judas are well known. In St. Matthew he hangs himself; in Acts he is killed by a fall. In St. Matthew the priests buy a...
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
THE FIELD OF BLOOD. — St. Luke (Acts 1:19) gives the Aramaic form, _Akeldama,_ but assigns the death of Judas in a field which he had bought as the origin of the name. It is possible that two spots ma...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
_The despair of Judas_. Peculiar to Matthew; interesting to the evangelist as a testimony even from the false disciple to the innocence of Jesus, and the wickedness of His enemies, and as a curious in...
ἀγρὸς αἵματος = _aceldama_, Acts 1:18, name otherwise explained there. ἕως τῆς σήμερον : phrase frequent in O. T. history; sign of late date of Gospel, thinks De Wette....
THE BETRAYER'S REMORSE AND SUICIDE Matthew 27:1-10 It was the very early morning when Jesus was led off to Pilate, for he was on the cross by nine. Judas apparently watched the scene from afar. It ma...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
REMORSE AND SUICIDE OF JUDAS Matthew 27:3-10; Acts 1:18-19. Matthew: “Then Judas, the one having betrayed Him, seeing that He was condemned; giving way to remorse, brought the thirty pieces of silver...
CHAPTER 26. JESUS AT PILATE'S BAR Matthew 27:1-14; Mark 15:1-5; Luke 23:1-5; John 18:28-38. “ Then they led Jesus from C
"Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. (5) And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
8._For a burying-place to strangers. _The more that wicked men endeavor to conceal their enormities, the more does the Lord watch over them to bring those enormities to light. They hoped that, by an h...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
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 Act...
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. Ver. 8. _Was called the field of blood_] Not the burial place for strangers, as they would have had it called (thinking thereby to...
_And the chief priests took the silver pieces_ They refused to receive them from Judas, for fear, perhaps, of taking thereby the whole guilt of the murder of Christ upon themselves, which they wished...
THIS DAY; the time when Matthew wrote his gospel, perhaps thirty years after the events here recorded....
WHEREFORE THAT FIELD WAS CALLED THE FIELD OF BLOOD, UNTO THIS DAY....
The purchase of the field of blood:...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
1-10 Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when they commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manner Judas acknowledged to the chief priests that he had sinn...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:10"....
Matthew 27:8 Therefore G1352 that G1565 field G68 called G2564 (G5681) Field G68 Blood G129 to G2193 day...
‘For which reason that field was called, the field of blood, to this day.' ‘For which reason' might look back to the decision of the Chief Priests, or it may look back on the whole story. The name ‘fi...
THE CHIEF PRIEST AND ELDERS BRING ABOUT THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS BY MANIPULATION: THE REMORSE OF JUDAS AND THE TRIAL OF JESUS BEFORE PILATE (27:1-26). In this new subsection Matthew lays great stress...
THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS SEEK TO HAVE JESUS SENTENCED TO DEATH AND JUDAS RETURNS THE BLOOD MONEY AND HANGS HIMSELF (27:1-10). The chapter commences with the Chief Priests and Elders seeking how th...
This morning meeting of the Sanhedrin is mentioned more particularly by Luke (Luke 22:66-71). They must apply to the Roman governor to have their formal sentence against Jesus executed. They first dec...
Matthew 27:8. THE FIELD OF BLOOD. ‘Akeldama,' Acts 1:19. The stain of the blood money remained in the name. It belonged to the Latins until the fourteenth century and afterwards became the property of...
THE FIELD OF BLOOD (αγρος αιματος). This name was attached to it because it was the price of blood and that is not inconsistent with Acts 1:18. Today potter's field carries the idea here started of...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
FIELD OF BLOOD. So named because it was bought with "Blood money," and because Judas fell to his death there (Acts 1:18)....
_Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned._ JUDAS AND THE PRIESTS-END OF EVIL ASSOCIATION Men join hand in hand for a wicked object, out of which they hope for common pro...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:7 The name FIELD OF BLOOD arose from its association with Judas’s violent death (see Acts 1:18) and perhaps also with the “blood money” ...
1-66 CHAPTER 27 Ver. 1. _But when the morning was come_ (Syr. _when it was dawn_), _all the chief priests_, &c. "See here," says S. Jerome, "the eagerness of the Priests for evil," _their feet were s...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:2. PONTIUS PILATE.—Must have belonged, by birth or adoption, to the _gens_ of the Pontii, one of whom, C. Pontius Telesinus, had been the leader of the Samnites in their se...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
2 Chronicles 5:9; Acts 1:19; Deuteronomy 34:6; Joshua 4:9; Judges 1:26;...