Jeremiah
the prophet
Priest of Anathoth who prophesied in Jerusalem before and during its fall, was imprisoned and thrown into a dungeon, and was carried to Egypt after the city was taken.
Also called Jeremy, Jeremias.
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Spoken by Jeremy: the Potter's Field
3Judas was the one who had handed Jesus over. When he saw that Jesus was condemned, he was very sorry. He brought the thirty silver coins back to the chief priests and leaders.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Thirty silver coins was a lot of money. It was about four months of pay for a worker.
4Judas said, "I did wrong. I handed over a man who did nothing wrong." They said, "That is not our problem. It is yours."
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5So Judas threw the silver coins down in the temple and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
The temple was God's special house in Jerusalem. People went there to pray and bring gifts to God.
6The chief priests picked up the coins. They said, "Our law says we cannot put this in the temple money box. It paid for a man's death."
And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
The money box held gifts people gave to God. The leaders said this money was too dirty for that.
7They talked it over. They used the money to buy the potter's field. It would be a burial place for strangers.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
A potter makes pots out of clay. A field dug up for clay was no good for growing food. Strangers were travelers with no family grave nearby.
8That is why the field is still called the Field of Blood.
Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
9This made true the words of Jeremiah the prophet. He wrote: "They took the thirty silver coins. That was the price the people of Israel set on him.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
Jeremiah lived hundreds of years before Jesus. Matthew says his old words came true now. A prophet was someone who told people what God said.
10They used the coins to buy the potter's field, just as the Lord told me."
And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
Every passage here is the King James text. Nothing on this page retells the story; it only puts the pieces in order.