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.
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Matthew 27:7
Matthew 27:7
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