Matthew 27:8

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For this reason that field has been called the“Field of Blood” to this day.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 1:19 : 19 This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is,“Field of Blood.”)
  • Matt 28:15 : 15 So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.
  • Deut 34:6 : 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.
  • Josh 4:9 : 9 Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.
  • Judg 1:26 : 26 He moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.
  • 2 Chr 5:9 : 9 The poles were so long their ends extending out from the ark were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. They have remained there to this very day.

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  • Acts 1:18-19
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    18(Now this man Judas acquired a field with the reward of his unjust deed, and falling headfirst he burst open in the middle and all his intestines gushed out.

    19This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is,“Field of Blood.”)

  • Matt 27:1-7
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    1Jesus Brought Before Pilate When it was early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people plotted against Jesus to execute him.

    2They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

    3Judas’ Suicide Now when Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

    4saying,“I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!” But they said,“What is that to us? You take care of it yourself!”

    5So Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.

    6The chief priests took the silver and said,“It is not lawful to put this into the temple treasury, since it is blood money.”

    7After consulting together they bought the Potter’s Field with it, as a burial place for foreigners.

  • Matt 27:9-10
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    9Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:“They took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one whose price had been set by the people of Israel,

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

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    14The Plan to Betray Jesus Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

    15and said,“What will you give me to betray him into your hands?” So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

    16From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

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    12Then I said to them,“If it seems good to you, pay me my wages, but if not, forget it.” So they weighed out my payment– thirty pieces of silver.

    13The LORD then said to me,“Throw to the potter that exorbitant sum at which they valued me!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the temple of the LORD.

  • 8So they seized him, killed him, and threw his body out of the vineyard.

  • 33They came to a place called Golgotha(which means“Place of the Skull”)

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    24Jesus is Condemned and Mocked When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said,“I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”

    25In reply all the people said,“Let his blood be on us and on our children!”

  • 3They have made their blood flow like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

  • 37sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and placed it at the apostles’ feet.

  • 15So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story is told among the Jews to this day.

  • 20and said,“This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded you to keep.”

  • 5They were delighted and arranged to give him money.

  • 35so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

  • 12After they had assembled with the elders and formed a plan, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

  • 35When they had crucified him, they divided his clothes by throwing dice.

  • 24He said to them,“This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many.

  • 40The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown and all the terraced fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far north as the corner of the Horse Gate will be included within this city that is sacred to the LORD. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”

  • Lev 27:19-22
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    19If, however, the one who consecrated the field redeems it, he must add to it one fifth of the conversion price and it will belong to him.

    20If he does not redeem the field, but sells the field to someone else, he may never redeem it.

    21When it reverts in the jubilee, the field will be holy to the LORD like a permanently dedicated field; it will become the priest’s property.

    22“‘If he consecrates to the LORD a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

  • Ezek 24:7-8
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    7For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

    8To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

  • Jer 32:8-9
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    8And then my cousin Hanamel did come to me in the courtyard of the guardhouse in keeping with the LORD’s message. He said to me,‘Buy my field which is at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. Buy it for yourself since you are entitled as my closest relative to take possession of it for yourself.’ When this happened, I recognized that the LORD had indeed spoken to me.

    9So I bought the field at Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel. I weighed out seven ounces of silver and gave it to him to pay for it.

  • 10You build Zion through bloody crimes, Jerusalem through unjust violence.

  • 18So even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

  • 53So from that day they planned together to kill him.

  • 8Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!

  • 39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

  • 22They brought Jesus to a place called Golgotha(which is translated,“Place of the Skull”).

  • 28for this is my blood, the blood of the covenant, that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

  • 33“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

  • 26‘“Know for sure that I saw the shed blood of Naboth and his sons yesterday,” says the LORD,“and that I will give you what you deserve right here in this plot of land,” says the LORD.’So now pick him up and throw him into this plot of land, just as in the LORD’s message.”

  • 17So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them,“Whom do you want me to release for you, Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called the Christ?”

  • 17So Abraham secured Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,