Matthew 27:10 (WEB)
and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
Fathers and councils · 16
Augustine of Hippo
“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 the children of Israel did value, and gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 3–10.
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John Chrysostom
“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, and gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 6–10. [The only textual peculiarities are, the substitution of κα for δ, at the beginning of verse 7; and the omission of a clause in verse 9, as…
Read the whole comment““Hearest thou not how many things these witness against thee?”” — editor's note: Matt. xxvii. 10. [The word “these” is peculiar to this citation.—R.]
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Jerome
“Again in Matthew when the thirty pieces of silver are returned by the traitor Judas and the potter’s field is purchased with them, it is written:—“Then was fulfilled that which…” — editor's note: Matthew xxvii. 9, 10.
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Tertullian
“…its first purpose of a fee, and appropriated to the purchase of a potter’s field, as narrated in the Gospel of Matthew, were clearly foretold by Jeremiah: “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of Him who was valued and gave them for the potter’s field.”” — editor's note: This passage more nearly resembles Zech. xi. 12 and 13 than anything in Jeremiah, although the transaction in Jer. xxxii. 7–15 is noted by the commentators, as…
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on Matthew
The Chief Priests knowing that they had purchased a murder were condemned by their own conscience; they said, “It is the price of blood.”
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Truly straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel; for if they would not put the money into the treasury, because it was the price of blood, why did they shed the blood at all?
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They thought it meet to spend upon the dead that money which was the price of blood. But as there are differences even in burial places, they used the price of Jesus’ blood in the purchase of some potter’s field,…
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It was brought about, I conceive, by God’s providence, that the Saviour’s price should not minister means of excess to sinners, but repose to foreigners, that thence Christ might both redeem the living by the…
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Also we, who were strangers to the Law and the Prophets, have profited by the perverse temper of the Jews to obtain salvation for ourselves.
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Or, the “foreigners” are they who to the end are aliens from God, for the righteous are buried with Christ in a new tomb hewn out in the rock. But they who are aliens from God, even to the end, are buried in the…
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“To this day” means to the time when the Evangelist was then writing. He then confirms the event by the testimony of the Prophet; “Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the Prophet,” &c.
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This is not found at all in Hieremias; but in Zacharias [marg. note: Zech 11:13], who is the last but one of the twelve Prophets, something like it is told, and though the sense is not very different, yet the…
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But if any one thinks this lowers the historian’s credit, first let him know that not all the copies of the Gospels have the name Hieremias, but some simply “by the Prophet.” But I do not like this defence, because…
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Far be it then from a follower of Christ to suppose him guilty of falsehood, whereas his business was not to pry into words and syllables, but to lay down the staple of doctrine.
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I have lately read in a Hebrew book given me by a Hebrew of the Nazarene sect, an apocryphal Hieremias, in which I find the very words here quoted. After all, I am rather inclined to think that the passage was taken…
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Cross-references · 6
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cross-reference given by the World English Bible's translators.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 27:6–10 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 27:6–10 (2) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Matthew 27:6–10 (3) (Catena Aurea).