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Matthew 27:8

Akeldama

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.”

7 After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.

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,

10 and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord had commanded me.”

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BSB
That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
KJV
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
WEB
Therefore that field has been called “The Field of Blood” to this day.
ASV
Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.
DARBY
Wherefore that field has been called Blood-field unto this day.
BLB
Therefore that field was called Field of Blood until this day.
ÅB
Derfor heter denne åker Blodåkeren den dag idag.
OTB
Derfor har den åkeren blitt kjent som Blodåkeren til denne dag.
B1930
Derfor heter denne aker Blodakeren den dag idag.

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  • Acts 1:19

    This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so they called that field in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

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  • Matthew 28:15

    So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

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  • 2 Chronicles 5:9

    The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

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  • Joshua 4:9

    Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

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  • Deuteronomy 34:6

    And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.

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  • Judges 1:26

    And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

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