Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 27:7
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury (d) strangers in.
(d) Strangers and guests, whom the Jews could not endure to be joined with even after they were dead.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury (d) strangers in.
(d) Strangers and guests, whom the Jews could not endure to be joined with even after they were dead.
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...
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...
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...
BOUGHT. purchased with money in the market. In Acts 1:18, the word is not _agorazo,_ as here, but _ktaomai =_ acquired as. possession by purchase. Acts 1:18 refers to quite another transaction. See Ap...
_the potter's field_ Tradition places _Aceldama_in the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem. _strangers_ i. e. Jews of the dispersion, Hellenists and proselytes....
ΤῸΝ�.Τ.Λ. Tradition places _Aceldama_ (Acts 1:19) in the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem. The Athenians also had their κεραμεικός, the Potters’ Quarter, in the most beautiful suburb of their city...
THE REMORSE OF JUDAS. HE RETURNS THE SILVER SHEKELS. THE USE MADE OF THEM Peculiar to St Matthew....
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...
ΉΓΌΡΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G59) покупать, ΚΕΡΑΜΕΎΣ (G2763) горшечник, ΤΑΦΉ (G5027) могила, ΞΈΝΟΙΣ _dat. pl._ от ΞΈΝΟΣ (G3581) чужеземец. Вероятно, относится к паломникам, которые приходи...
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 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:
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...
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. AND THEY TOOK COUNSEL, AND BOUGHT WITH THEM THE POTTER'S FIELD, TO BURY STRANGERS IN....
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
BOUGHT] In Acts Judas buys the field. THE POTTER'S FIELD] The potter probably used to obtain clay from 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...
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...
AND THEY TOOK COUNSEL. — As before, _they held a council._ THE POTTER’S FIELD. — In Jeremiah 18:2 we read of the “potter’s house” as being outside the city, probably, from Jeremiah 19:2, in the Valley...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
_Burying-place. this the Pharisees did, as a shew of their charity to strangers; but their intention, according to St. Jerome, was to disgrace Jesus; thus to keep alive in the minds of the people, tha...
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...
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...
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 I...
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Ver. 7. _To bury strangers in_] Romans and others, with whom they would have nothing common, no, not so much as a...
_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...
POTTER'S FIELD; a place where earthen-ware had been made. STRANGERS; those who came from other countries, and died at Jerusalem....
AND THEY TOOK COUNSEL, AND BOUGHT WITH THEM THE POTTER'S FIELD, TO BURY STRANGERS IN....
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 27:7 And G1161 together G2983 (G5631) G4824 bought G59 (G5656) with G1537 them G846 potters...
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...
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...
‘And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.' So they then discussed the matter together, and finally came up with the idea of buying ‘the potter's field' whi...
Matthew 27:7. AND THEY TOOK COUNSEL. Probably soon after the crucifixion. THE POTTER'S FIELD. Some well known spot, of little value, because unfit for tillage. TO BURY STRANGERS IN. Not heathen, bu...
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...
THE POTTER'S FIELD (του αγρου του κεραμεως). Grotius suggests that it was a small field where potter's clay was obtained, like a brickyard (Broadus). Otherwise we do not know why the name exists. In...
Matthew 27:6 The Field of Blood. I. The whole history of the transaction whereby our Saviour was betrayed into the hands of His enemies is brimful of awful interest and solemn edification. First, as...
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...
THEY USED THE MONEY TO BUY POTTER' FIELD. "Potter's Field," so named because clay was dug from it to make pottery. The priests bought this in Judas' name, so it was legally his (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...
They bought with them the potter's field — Well known, it seems, by that name. This was a small price for a field so near Jerusalem. But the earth had probably been digged for potters' vessels, so tha...