Matthew 27:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ So, that field is called, ‘The Field of Blood’ to this day.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Therefore that piece of ground has been called the Field of Blood to the present day.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

Common English Bible

⁸ That’s why that field is called “Field of Blood” to this very day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For this reason, that field is called Haceldama, that is, 'The Field of Blood,' even to this very day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ For this cause the field was called Haceldama, that is, The field of blood, even to this day.

Matthew 27:8 Cross References

Matthew 27:7

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.

Matthew 28:15

So, they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story [i.e., that Jesus’ body had been stolen by His disciples] was told widely among the Jews, and continues to be told to this day.

Acts 1:19

This incident became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem so that the [burial] field purchased with the reward money became known, in their own [i.e., the Jewish] language, as “Akeldama” [an Aramaic word], which means “Field of Blood.”)