The field of blood (αγρος αιματος). This name was attached to it because it was the price of blood and that is not inconsistent wi…

The field of blood. The field purchased by the price of blood. The name by which this field was called was Aceldama ([Reference A…

The field of blood —Luke (Acts 1:19) gives the Aramaic form, Akeldama, but he attributes the name's origin to…

Whether Judas bought the field in which he committed suicide (Acts 1:18) or whether the chief priests, hearing how he meant to spend th…

St. John Chrysostom: The chief priests, knowing they had paid for a murder, were condemned by their own conscience. They said,…

Exactly where Judas threw the money is uncertain. He then went out and hanged himself. The chief priests refuse to allow the blood money to supplem…

For a burying-place to strangers. The more wicked men endeavor to conceal their enormities, the more the Lord watches over them to bring t…

Wherefore that field was called Not by the priests and elders, but by the common people, who knew by what money it was pu…

Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when they commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manner Judas ack…

Above, the Evangelist recounted what Christ suffered from the Jews; here, he recounts what He suffered from the Gentiles. And he does four things:<…