Matthew 27:3-10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 27:1-10

We left Christ in the hands of the chief priests and elders, condemned to die, but they could only show their teeth; about two years before this the Romans had taken from the Jews the power of capital punishment; they could put no man to death, and therefore early in the morning another council is held, to consider what is to be done. And here we are told what was done in that morning?council, after they had been for two or three hours consulting with their pillows. I. Christ is delivered up... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 27:3-10

27:3-10 When Judas the traitor saw that Jesus had been condemned, he repented, and he brought the thirty shekels back to the chief priests and the elders. "I have sinned," he said, "for I have betrayed an innocent man." "What has that got to do with us?" they said. "It is you who must see to that." He threw the money into the Temple and went away. And when he had gone away, he hanged himself. The chief priests took the money. "We cannot," they said, "put these into the treasury, for they are... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:3

Then Judas, which had betrayed him ,.... Before, he is described as he that shall, or should, or doth betray him; but now having perpetrated the horrid sin, as he that had done it. When he saw that he was condemned ; that is, that Jesus was condemned, as the Syriac and Persic versions read, either by the Jewish sanhedrim, or by Pilate, or both; for this narrative concerning Judas may be prophetically inserted here, though the thing itself did not come to pass till afterwards; and the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:4

Saying, I have sinned ,.... Here was a confession, and yet no true repentance; for he confessed, but not to the right persons; not to God, nor Christ, but to the chief priests and elders; nor over the head of the antitypical scape goat, not seeking to Christ for pardon and cleansing, nor did he confess and forsake sin, but went on adding sin to sin, and so found no mercy. The same confession was made by a like hardened wretch, Pharaoh, Exodus 9:27 . He proceeds and points out the evil he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:5

And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple ,.... Upon the ground, in that part of the temple where they were sitting; in their council chamber, לשכת הגזית , "the paved chamber", where the sanhedrim used to meet F13 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 88. 2. : for it seems they would not take the money of him; and he was determined not to carry it back with him, and therefore threw it down before them, left it, and departed ; from the sanhedrim: and went; out of the temple; not to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:6

And the chief priests took the silver pieces ,.... Off of the ground, after Judas was gone, no other daring to meddle with them; for in any other it would have been deemed sacrilege; and they being the proper persons to take care and dispose of money brought into the temple: and if not, their covetous disposition would have moved them to take up the money: and said, one to another, it is not lawful to put them into the treasury , or "Corban"; as the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:7

And they took counsel ,.... With one another, considered of the matter, and deliberated about it a while; and at last came to a resolution, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in : a field of no great value, or it could not have been bought so near Jerusalem for so small a sum as thirty pieces of silver. Grotius's conjecture seems to be a good one, that it was a field the potter had dug up for his use, and had made the most of it; so that it was good for nothing,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:8

Wherefore that field was called ,.... Not by the priests and elders, but by the common people, who knew by what money it was purchased, the field of blood ; or "Aceldama", which so signifies, as in Acts 1:19 , not called the field of the priests, the purchasers; nor the field of the strangers, for whom it was bought; but the field of blood, being purchased with that money, for which innocent blood was betrayed; and this name it bore unto this day ; in which Matthew wrote his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:9

Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet ,.... Through the purchasing of the potter's field with the thirty pieces of silver, the price that Christ was valued at, a prophecy in the writings of the Old Testament had its accomplishment: but about this there is some difficulty. The evangelist here says it was spoken by Jeremy the prophet; whereas in his prophecy there is no mention of any such thing. There is indeed an account of his buying his uncle Hanameel's son's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:10

And gave them for the potter's field ,.... In the prophet it is, "and I cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord", Zechariah 11:13 ; whereas here it is, "they gave them"; but the word Matthew uses may be rendered, "I gave", as it is by the Syriac; and as the last words require it should, "as the Lord commanded me"; otherwise there will be no coherence between them: and whereas the thirty pieces of silver are, in the prophet, said to be cast, or given "to the potter", and here, "for... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Matthew 27:1-10

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Matthew 27:3-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:10

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