They bought with them the potter's field — Well known, it seems, by that name. This was a small price for a field so near Jerusalem. But the earth had probably been digged for potters' vessels, so that it was now neither fit for tillage nor pasture, and consequently of small value. Foreigners — Heathens especially, of whom there were then great numbers in Jerusalem.
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Matthew 27:7
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.