{"id":3344,"date":"2014-07-25T08:58:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2025-07-16T05:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:48:55","slug":"matthew-271-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 27:1-10"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 When morning came, all the chief priests and elders of the people plotted against Jesus to put Him to death.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

2 And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

3 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He had been condemned, was remorseful and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

4 saying, \u201cI have sinned by betraying innocent blood.\u201d And they said, \u201cWhat is that to us? You see to it!\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

5 Then he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

6 But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, \u201cIt is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

7 And they consulted together and bought with them the potter\u2019s field, to bury strangers in.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

8 Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

9 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, \u201cAnd they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced,<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

10 and gave them for the potter\u2019s field, as the Lord directed me.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

plotted (v.1) \u2014 Also found in Mark 15:1<\/span><\/a>; Luke 23:1 and John 18:28<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n

Pontius Pilate (v.2) \u2014 The Roman procurator of Judea from A.D. 26-37 under the Prefect of Syria. He was based in Caesarea but was in Jerusalem at this time for the Passover festival in case of trouble.<\/h3>\n

repented (v.3) = regret, remorse \u2014 not the same word as the usual one meaning “change of mind”<\/h3>\n

temple (v.5) = sanctuary \u2014 the entrance to the holy place<\/h3>\n

The death of Judas (v.5) is also mentioned in Acts 1:18-19<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n

potter’s field (v.7) \u2014 a piece of waste land from which the clay has been removed for use by a potter.<\/h3>\n

Jeremiah (v.9) \u2014 Matthew seems to be referring to Zechariah 11:12-13. Jeremiah does mention a potter’s field in Jeremiah 32:6-9 and a potter in Jeremiah 18:1-4 and 19:1-3, but none of these passages come close to Matthew’s quote. So why did he attribute this to Jeremiah? I’m not sure. Some commentaries say Matthew was combining both prophecies and gave credit to the more prominent prophet. Others say the quote was in a scroll that began with the prophecies of Jeremiah and included Zechariah. One says that Matthew was referring to a prophecy by Jeremiah that wasn’t included in his written book. I don’t have an answer at this point.<\/h3>\n

The words “the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced” are to be understood as a parenthesis. A similar explanatory parenthesis, had the price been twenty pieces of silver instead of thirty, might have been thus interjected: “And they took the twenty pieces of silver (the price of him whom his brethren sold into Egypt) and they gave them” etc; Or, the verse might read: “They took the thirty pieces of silver (the price given in Israel for an injured servant”) and they gave them,” etc. \u2014 Williams, page 728<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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