◄ Matthew 27:7 ►
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Good News Translation
After reaching an agreement about it, they used the money to buy Potter's Field, as a cemetery for foreigners.

New Revised Standard Version
After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter’s field as a place to bury foreigners.

Contemporary English Version
Then they had a meeting and decided to buy a field that belonged to someone who made clay pots. They wanted to use it as a graveyard for foreigners.

New American Bible
After consultation, they used it to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers.

Context
Judas Hangs Himself
…6But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood. 7And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers. 8For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:6
But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood.

Matthew 27:8
For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day.

Matthew 27:6
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