“ Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. ”
The field of blood - The field purchased by the price of blood. The name by which this field was called was “Aceldama,” Acts 1:19 . It was just without the walls of Jerusalem, on the south of Mo...
The Death of Judas. Mt. only, but for a variant account see Acts 1:18 f. This section breaks the narrative, and its historicity is not beyond question. The evangelist has in mind Zechariah 11:12...
8. For a burying-place to strangers. The more that wicked men endeavor to conceal their enormities, the more does the Lord watch over them to bring those enormities to light. They hoped that...
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. The field of blood - In vain do the wicked attempt to conceal themselves; God makes them instrumental in discovering their own wick...
The treasury, &c.— Κορβαναν : the place where the gifts set apart for the service of the temple, and for other pious uses, were deposited, 2 Kings 12:10 . Mark 12:41-42 . Such an offering as...
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
Before Pilate. The Crucifixion 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate ( Mark 15:1 ; Luke 23:1 ; John 18:28 : see on Jn).
The field of blood. — St. Luke ( Acts 1:19 ) gives the Aramaic form, Akeldama, but assigns the death of Judas in a field which he had bought as the origin of the name. It is possible that two spo...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1-75 - Matthew 27:1-56 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large pr...
the Betrayer's Remorse and Suicide Matthew 27:1-10 It was the very early morning when Jesus was led off to Pilate, for he was on the cross by nine. Judas apparently watched the scene from afar....
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out...
"Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. (5) And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went...
Wherefore that field was called ,.... Not by the priests and elders, but by the common people, who knew by what money it was purchased, the field of blood ; or "Aceldama", which so signifies, as i...
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. Ver. 8. Was called the field of blood ] Not the burial place for strangers, as they would have had it called (thinking thereby...
And the chief priests took the silver pieces They refused to receive them from Judas, for fear, perhaps, of taking thereby the whole guilt of the murder of Christ upon themselves, which they wished...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to t...
The Repentance of Judas; The Confession of Judas; The Death of Judas; Disposal of the Thirty Pieces of Silver. 1 When the mornin...
See Poole on " Matthew 27:10 " .
The Chief Priests and Elders Seek To Have Jesus Sentenced To Death And Judas Returns The Blood Money and Hangs Himself (27:1-10). The chapter commences with the Chief Priests and Elders seeking ho...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 27:2 . Pontius Pilate. —Must have belonged, by birth or adoption, to the gens of the Pontii, one of whom, C. Pontius Telesinus, had been the leader of the Samnites in th...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance bef...
Then Judas, which had betrayed Him, when he saw that He was condemned. Judas and the priests-end of evil association Men join hand in hand for a wicked object, out of which they hope for common...
EXPOSITION Matthew 27:1 , Matthew 27:2 Jesus brought to Pilate. ( Mark 15:1 ; Luke 22:66 ; Luke 23:1 ; John 18:28 .) Matthew 27:1 When the morning was come. This is the e...
The purchase of the field of blood:
2 Chronicles 5:9 ; Acts 1:19 ; Deuteronomy 34:6 ; Joshua 4:9 ; Judges 1:26 ; Matthew 28:15