Matthew 27:8

New American Bible - revised edition

That is why that field even today is called the Field of Blood.

Cross References

Acts 1:19

This became known to everyone who lived in Jerusalem, so that the parcel of land was called in their language ‘Akeldama,’ that is, Field of Blood.

Matthew 28:15

The soldiers took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has circulated among the Jews to the present [day]. The Commissioning of the Disciples.

Judges 1:26

The man then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the Jordan riverbed on the spot where the priests stood who were carrying the ark of the covenant. They are there to this day.

Deuteronomy 34:6

and he was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; to this day no one knows the place of his burial.

2 Chronicles 5:9

The poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary. (They cannot be seen from outside, but they remain there to this day.)

Matthew 27:7

After consultation, they used it to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.