And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord had commanded me.”
and gave them for the field of the potter, as the Lord did appoint to me.'
and they gave them for the field of the potter, according as [the] Lord commanded me.
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Thus in times of ignorance people were made to believe that building churches and endowing monasteries would make amends for immoralities. Secondly, To signify the favour intended by the blood of Christ to strangers, and sinners of the Gentiles. Through the price of his blood, a resting place is provided for them after death.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.
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And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter, the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the house of Jehovah.
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Zechariah 11:13And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter, the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them unto the potter,…
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Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
(Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty…
He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner.
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
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