Matthew 27:7
5 So Judas threw the silver into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
6 The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”
After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
8 That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
9 Then what was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on Him by the people of Israel,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.
- KJV
- And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
- WEB
- They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them to bury strangers in.
- ASV
- And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter`s field, to bury strangers in.
- DARBY
- And having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter for a burying-ground for strangers.
- BLB
- And having taken counsel, they bought with them the potter’s field for a burial place for foreigners.
- ÅB
- Og de holdt råd med hverandre, og kjøpte for pengene pottemakerens åker til gravsted for fremmede.
- OTB
- De bestemte seg for å bruke pengene til å kjøpe pottemakerens åker som en gravplass for utlendinger.
- B1930
- Og de holdt råd med hverandre, og kjøpte for pengene pottemakerens aker til gravsted for fremmede.