τὸν ἀγρὸν τ. κεραμέως, the field of the potter. The smallness of the price has suggested to some (Grotius, e.g.) that it was a field for potter's clay got cheap because worked out. But in that case it would naturally be called the field of the potters. ξένοις most take as referring to Jews from other lands dying at Jerusalem at passover time.

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Old Testament