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potter's field a burial place for paupers and strangers, with biblical allusion to Matthew 27:7. The field was bought with the thirty pieces of silver paid to Judas for the betrayal of Jesus by the priests, which the repentant and despairing Judas had returned to them. It is also called Aceldama.

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Potter's Field A cemetery for foreigners near Jerusalem, bought with the thirty pieces of silver which had been given by the priests to Judas as a reward for betraying Jesus and which he threw back at them when he realized that what he had done was irreversible; hence the field was also called the Field of Blood (Matt. 27: 8). Matthew highlights the event by quoting an incident in Jeremiah (incorrectly—it is mostly from Zech. 11: 12–13) in accordance with his policy to link events in the life of Jesus to apparent OT prophecies. The story takes a different form in Acts 1: 18–19, where it is Judas himself who purchases the property.

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pot·ter's field • n. hist. a burial place for paupers and strangers.

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