Matthew 27:3–10
27:3Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he had been condemned, regretting his conduct, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the leaders of the priests and the elders
27:4saying, “I have sinned in betraying just blood.” But they said to him: “What is that to us? See to it yourself.
27:5And throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed. And going out, he hanged himself with a snare
27:6But the leaders of the priests, having taken up the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple offerings, because it is the price of blood.
27:7Then, having taken counsel, they bought the potter’s field with it, as a burying place for sojourners
27:8For this reason, that field is called Haceldama, that is, ‘The Field of Blood,’ even to this very day
27:9Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one being appraised, whom they appraised before the sons of Israel
27:10and they gave it for the potter’s field, just as the Lord appointed to me.
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Editorial apparatus
Connections
2 typed links connect to this passage.
Jeremiah 19:1–13 - The potter's vessel and innocent blood
Jeremiah takes a potter's vessel to ground polluted by innocent blood and says the place will become a burial ground. Matthew names innocent blood and a potter's field purchased for burials. The Gospel's Jeremiah citation gathers the images without quoting this passage word for word.
Sources & review
- Interpretation
- allusion
- Principal basis
- Explicit New Testament application
- Review status
- source checked
- scripture
Jer 19:1-13
- scripture
Matt 27:3-10
- commentary
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, New American Bible, Revised Edition
USCCB online Bible and notes
Editorial questions
Accepted with qualification · interpretive dispute
Matthew's wording is not a verbatim quotation of Jeremiah 19, and interpreters differ over which Jeremiah passages stand behind the attribution.
Editorial response: The link is classified as an allusion, not a quotation. The note limits the claim to the shared potter, innocent-blood, judgment, and burial-place imagery identified by the USCCB commentary.
Jeremiah 32:6–15 - Silver weighed for a field
Jeremiah weighs silver and purchases a field while Jerusalem is under siege. Matthew's priests use returned silver to purchase another field. Augustine reads the field from Jeremiah and the thirty pieces from Zechariah together in Matthew's fulfillment citation.
Sources & review
- Interpretation
- allusion
- Principal basis
- Explicit New Testament application
- Review status
- source checked
- scripture
Jer 32:6-15
- scripture
Matt 27:3-10
- commentary
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, New American Bible, Revised Edition
USCCB online Bible and notes
- church father
Augustine of Hippo, The Harmony of the Gospels
Book III, chapter 7, sections 29-31
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I, vol. 6 (New Advent)
Augustine discusses the Jeremiah attribution and joins the field purchase with Zechariah's silver in his interpretation of Matthew.
Editorial questions
Accepted with qualification · interpretive dispute
Jeremiah 32 concerns a hopeful family land purchase during Jerusalem's siege, while Matthew's field is bought with blood money for burials.
Editorial response: The link claims shared field-purchase language within Matthew's composite Jeremiah citation, not identical meaning or a direct prediction by Jeremiah 32 alone.