Matthew 27:10

And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me. AND GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD, AS THE LORD APPOINTED ME. Never was a complicated prophecy, otherwise hopelessly dark, more marvelously fulfilled. Various conjectures have been formed to account for Matthew's ascribing to Jeremiah a prophecy found in the book of Zechariah. But since with this book he was plainly familiar, having quoted one of its most remarkable prophecies of Christ but a few chapters before (Matthew 21:4), the question is one more of critical interest than real importance. Perhaps the true explanation is the following, from Lightfoot:-`Jeremiah of old had the first place among the prophets, and hereby he comes to be mentioned above all the rest in ; because he stood first in the vo...

10._As the Lord appointed me. _By this clause Matthew confirms the statement, that this was not done without the providence of God; because, while they have a different object in view, they unconsciously fulfill an ancient prediction. For how could it have occurred to them to _purchase a field _from _a potter, _if the Lord had not turned their blameworthy conduct so as to carry into execution his own purpose?...

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 sinned, and betrayed an innocent person. This was full testimony to the character of Christ; but the rulers were hardened. Casting down the money, Judas departed, and went and hanged himself, not being able to bear the terror of Divine wrath, and the anguish of despair. There is little doubt but that the death of Judas was before that of our blessed Lord. But was it nothing to them that they had thirsted after this blood, and hired Judas to betray it, and had condemned it to be shed unjustly? Thus do fools make a mock at sin. Thus many make light of Christ crucified. And it is a common instance of the deceitfulness of our hearts, to make light of our own sin by dwelling upon other people's sins....

AND GAVE THEM - In Zechariah it is, I gave them. Here it is represented as being given by the priests. The meaning is not, however, different. It is, that this price “was given” for the potter’s field. AS THE LORD APPOINTED ME - That is, “commanded” me. The meaning of the place in Zechariah is this: He was directed to go to the Jews as a prophet - a pastor of the people. They treated him, as they had done others, with great contempt. He asks them to give him “his price” - that is, the price which they thought he and his pastoral labors were worth, or to show their estimate of his office. If they thought it of value, they were to pay him accordingly; if not, they were to “forbear” - that is, to give nothing. To show their “great contempt” of him and his office, and of God who had sent him, they gave him thirty pieces of silver - “the price of a slave.” This God commanded or “appointed him...

EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 22:66; Luke 23:1; John 18:28.) MATTHEW 27:1 WHEN THE MORNING WAS COME. This is the early morning of Good Friday, the 14th of Nisan. If the rulers had had special regard to legality, they could not have co

AND GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD,.... In the prophet it is, "and I cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord", Zechariah 11:13; whereas here it is, "they gave them"; but the word Matthew uses may be rendered, "I gave", as it is by the Syriac; and as the last words require it should, "as the Lord commanded me"; otherwise there will be no coherence between them: and whereas the thirty pieces of silver are, in the prophet, said to be cast, or given "to the potter", and here, "for the potter's field", there is no contradiction: the plain sense is, that they were given to the potter, as a valuable consideration for his field: and whereas it is added, "in the house of the Lord", which the evangelist does not cite the reason is, because this money was first cast down in the temple by Judas, and after being taken up by the priests, they covenanted with the potter for hi

MATTHEW 27:10 e;dwkan {B} It is difficult to decide whether the final _nu_ came into the text in order to avoid hiatus with the following vowel, or whether it was deleted under the influence of moi. On the strength of the diversity of external evidence a majority of the Committee preferred the plural form....

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.(Matthew 27:15 .) 5. Crowned with Thorns and Crucified.(Matthew 27:27 .) 6. The Death of the King. (Matthew 27:45 .) 7. The Rent Veil and the Earthquake.(Matthew 27:51 .) 8. The Burial. ...

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.*, which he curiously attributes to Jeremiah, influenced perhaps by Jeremiah 32:6; Jeremiah 18:2. There was in Jerusalem a cemetery for strangers, or more likely for criminals, known as the field of blood (possibly before it was so used it had been called the potter's field), and the story here given is the Christian explanation of the name. Matthew

THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...