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Matthew 27:8 — King James Version← Study notes

Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.


Matthew 27:8Greek Interlinear

Greek · Matthew 27:810 words
GreekMeaning
διὸdio
ThereforewordG1352
ἐκλήθηeklēthē
was calledverbG2564
ho
thearticleG3588
ἀγρὸςagros
fieldnounG68
ἐκεῖνοςekeinos
thatdemonstrativeG1565
ἈγρὸςAgros
FieldnounG68
ΑἵματοςHaimatos
of BloodnounG129
ἕωςheōs
untilprepositionG2193
τῆςtēs
thearticleG3588
σήμερονsēmeron
this dayadverbG4594
Greek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.

Church Fathers on Matthew 27:8

The Chief Priests knowing that they had purchased a murder were condemned by their own conscience; they said, 'It is the price of blood.'

Chrysostom · 4th century

Truly straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel; for if they would not put the money into the treasury, because it was the price of blood, why did they shed the blood at all?

Jerome · 4th century

They thought it meet to spend upon the dead that money which was the price of blood. But as there are differences even in burial places, they used the price of Jesus' blood in the purchase of some potter’s field, where foreigners might be buried, not as they desired in the sepulchres of their fathers.

Origen · 3rd century
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