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In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: They took counsel, and bought the potter's field with them, to bury strangers in. For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 27:7
Like many of the Hebrew Bible quotations in Matthew, the author has liberally reworked these verses from the source material. The verse nowhere exactly matches any Old Testament text, but the closest is Zechariah 11:13. [2] The World English Bible's translation of this verse is: 13 Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter, the handsome price
Jeremiah visits the potter, 18:1-23; Jeremiah takes a potter's clay jar and some of the elders to the valley of Ben-hinnon, 19:1-15; Pashur, the chief officer in the house of the LORD, beats Jeremiah and puts him in stocks. Jeremiah's complains to God. 20:1-18; Zedekiah, Pashur, and Zephaniah ask Jeremiah if there is a positive message from the ...
A potter's field, paupers' grave or common grave is a place for the burial of unknown, unclaimed or indigent people. "Potter's field" is of Biblical origin, referring to Akeldama (meaning field of blood in Aramaic ), stated to have been purchased after Judas Iscariot 's suicide by the chief priests of Jerusalem with the coins that had been paid ...
Bullae (c. 715–687 BC or 716–687 BC) [48] (clay roundels impressed with a personal seal identifying the owner of an object, the author of a document, etc.) are, like ostraka, relatively common, both in digs and on the antiquities market.
Thou art the Potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me after Thy will; While I am waiting, yielded and still. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way! Search me and try me, Master, today! Whiter than snow, Lord, wash me just now, As in Thy presence humbly I bow. Have Thine own way, Lord! Have Thine own way!
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This parable compares building one's life on the teachings and example of Jesus to a flood-resistant building founded on solid rock. The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke ().