And after[a] taking counsel, they purchased with[b] them the Potter’s Field, for a burial place for strangers. (For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.) Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, who said, “And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who had been priced, on whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:7 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“taking”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 27:7 Literally “for”