“Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.”
King James Version (KJV)
27:7 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.
27:9 Then was fulfilled - What was figuratively represented of old, was now really accomplished. What was spoken by the prophet - The word Jeremy, which was added to the text in latter copies, and thence received into many translations, is evidently a mistake: for he who spoke what St. Matthew here cites (or rather paraphrases) was not Jeremy, but Zechariah. #Zech 11:12|.
27:10 As the Lord commanded me - To write, to record.
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood vnto this day.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.
- American Standard Version (1901)
For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.
- Basic English Bible
Wherefore that field has been called Blood-field unto this day.
- Darby Bible
Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, to this day.
- Webster's Bible
for which reason that piece of ground received the name, which it still bears, of `the Field of Blood.'
- Weymouth Bible
Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.
- World English Bible
Herfor thilke feeld is clepid Acheldemac, that is, a feeld of blood, in to this dai.
- Wycliffe Bible
therefore was that field called, `Field of blood,' unto this day.
- Youngs Literal Bible