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Commentaries on Matthew 27:7

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

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...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

It is a very affecting story which is recorded in this chapter concerning the sufferings and death of our Lord Jesus. Considering the thing itself, there cannot be a more tragical story told us; common humanity would melt the heart, to find an innocent and excellent person thus misused. But considering the design and fruit of Christ's sufferings, it is gospel, it is good news, that Jesus Christ...