Therefore that field was called “The Field of Blood” to this day.
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Therefore that field was called “The Field of Blood” to this day.
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Wherfore that felde is called the felde of bloud vntyll this daye.
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Wherefore that field is called, The field of bloud, vntill this day.
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- Acts 1:19 It became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem that in their language that field was called ‘Akeldama,’ that is, ‘The field of blood.’
- Matthew 28:15 So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until today.
- Deuteronomy 34:6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor, but no man knows where his tomb is to this day.
- Joshua 4:9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
- Judges 1:26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
- 2 Chronicles 5:9 The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark in front of the inner sanctuary; but they were not seen outside; and it is there to this day.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of…
8 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 have gotten themselves an eternal commendation, for their love and liberality to strangers), but "the field of blood" (so the Vulgate would needs call it, much against these masters’ minds), for a lasting monument of their detestable villany, which they thought to have carried so cleanly, that the world should have been never the wiser; and therefore they would not kill Christ themselves as they did Stephen; but, to decline the envy, delivered him up to Pilate to be put to death. It is hard if hypocrites be not, by one means or other, detected; how else should their names rot?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Wherefore that field was called,.... Not by the priests…
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 1:19, not called the field of the priests, the purchasers; nor the field of the strangers, for whom it was bought; but the field of blood, being purchased with that money, for which innocent blood was betrayed; and this name it bore
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unto this day; in which Matthew wrote his Gospel, about eight years after, as is thought. Jerom (x) says, that in his time this field was shown on the south side of Mount Sion.
(x) De locis Hebraicis.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 8. The field of blood] In vain do…
Verse 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 priests, by laying it out, raise to themselves an eternal monument - the one of his treachery, the others of their perfidiousness, and both of the innocence of Jesus Christ. As, long as the Jewish polity continued, it might be said, "This is the field that was bought from the potter with the money which Judas got from the high priests for betraying his Master; which he, in deep compunction of spirit, brought back to them, and they bought this ground for a burial-place for strangers: for as it was the price of the blood of an innocent man, they did not think proper to let it rest in the treasury of the temple where the traitor had thrown it, who afterwards, in despair, went and hanged himself." What a standing proof must this have been of the innocence of Christ, and of their perfidy!
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The field of blood - The field purchased by…
The field of blood - The field purchased by the price of blood. The name by which this field was called was “Aceldama,” Act 1:19. It was just without the walls of Jerusalem, on the south of Mount Zion. It is now used as a burying-place by the Armenian Christians in Jerusalem, who have a magnificent convent on Mount Zion - Missionary Herald, 1824, p. 66. See the plan of Jerusalem.
To this day - That is, to the day when Matthew wrote this gospel, about 30 years after the field was purchased.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Haceldama is a Syriac word: it is not the…
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)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 8. The field of blood — The name stood…
8. The field of blood — The name stood as a memento of the direful sale and execution. The name, “called in their proper tongue Aceldama,” is at the present day traditionally given to a spot south of the Valley of Hinnom. Unto this day — Unto the time that Matthew writes. This was perhaps about eight years of interval. Sceptics have quoted this phrase in proof that Matthew was written in a later age. But it is a curious coincidence, that we fell upon this phrase a few days since in a New York newspaper, in regard to an event not more than eight years distant.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (8) The field of blood.—St. Luke (Act_1:19) gives the…
(8) The field of blood.—St. Luke (Act_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 may have been known by the same name for distinct reasons, and the fact that two places have been shown as the Field of Blood from the time of Jerome downwards, is, as far as it goes, in favour of this view. It is equally possible, on the other hand, that Judas may have gone, before or after the purchase, to the ground which, bought with his money, was, in some sense his own, and there ended his despair, dying literally in Gehenna, and buried, not in the grave of his fathers at Kerioth, but as an outcast, with none to mourn over him, in the cemetery of the aliens.
Unto this day.—The phrase suggests here, as again in Mat_28:15, an interval, more or less considerable, between the events and the record. (Comp. the Introduction as to the date of the Gospel.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The field of blood. Aceldama, (Act_1:19) the Syriac name.…
The field of blood. Aceldama, (Act_1:19) the Syriac name. It was so called (dio) from the circumstances attending its purchase, which gave it an evil notoriety, and which the priests must have divulged. "This also," says Chrysostom, taking the blood to be that of Jesus, "became a witness against them, and a proof of their treason. For the name of the place more clearly than a trumpet proclaimed their blood guiltiness." Unto this day. Until the time when this Gospel was published, the new appellation obtained. It is implied that a considerable interval had elapsed. Such chronological hints are often found in the Old Testament. (cf. Gen_19:37, 38 Jos_4:9, etc.)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 27:8 Field of Blood is a way of describing…
27:8 Field of Blood is a way of describing a cemetery (cp. Acts 1:18-19).
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