Matthew 27:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁷ So, they conferred together [and decided] to buy ‘The Potter’s Field’ with the money [Note: This was probably an abandoned field where clay had been obtained for making pottery], for use in burying people who were not from the local area.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ So after consultation they bought with them [the pieces of silver] the potter's field [as a place] in which to bury strangers.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

Common English Bible

⁷ So they decided to use it to buy the potter’s field where strangers could be buried.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ Then, having taken counsel, they bought the potter's field with it, as a burying place for sojourners.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And after they had consulted together, they bought with them the potter's field, to be a burying place for strangers.

Matthew 27:7 Cross References

Matthew 27:6

The leading priests took the silver coins and said, “It is not permissible by the Law of Moses to put this money in the Temple treasury, since it is the price [paid] for [taking] a life.

Matthew 27:8

So, that field is called, ‘The Field of Blood’ to this day.