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Matthew 27:8

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

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  1. Matthew 27:6

    And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

  2. Matthew 27:7

    And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

  3. Matthew 27:9

    Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

  4. Matthew 27:10

    And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.