“Because the quality of resting places for the dead varies (for many are buried in their ancestral tombs which were secured by a pledge, but those who suffer misfortune are often buried in the graves of the homeless), those who received payment in exchange for the blood of Jesus used it to acquire a potter's field for…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 117
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6And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
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4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
— Matthew 27:6 —
7And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
8Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.