8That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.


In Context

5 So Judas threw the money into the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.

6 The chief priests picked up the coins and said, "It is against the law to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money."

7 So they decided to use the money to buy the potter's field as a burial place for foreigners.

8 That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

9 Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: "They took the thirty silver coins, the price set on him by the people of Israel,

10 and they used them to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."

Matthew 27:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:8Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

27:8For this cause the field was called Haceldama, that is, The field of blood, even to this day.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

27:8Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:8Wherefore that field has been called Blood-field unto this day.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

27:8Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:8Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, to this day.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

27:8Therefore that field was called |The Field of Blood| to this day.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

27:8therefore was that field called, 'Field of blood,' unto this day.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

27:8Why that field was called, The field of blood, to this day.