The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

Touching the second part of the History, it was acted afterwards, after the Feast, wherein their own actions do strongly prove that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, by their fulfilling of the Prophesy. Why Matthew doth call Zachariah by the name of Jeremiah is not yet revealed, that I know off. Their actions were 1. they hold a Council to consider what to do with this execrable money, they agree that it ought not to be put into the Treasury of the Temple, because it was the price of blood, they agree to buy the Potters field with it, to be a place to bury strangers Pagans, that cared not for the Jews Religion, though they trafficked to the City.

Touching the second part of the History, it was acted afterwards, after the Feast, wherein their own actions do strongly prove that Iesus Christ is the Messiah, by their fulfilling of the Prophesy. Why Mathew doth call Zachariah by the name of Jeremiah is not yet revealed, that I know off. Their actions were 1. they hold a Council to consider what to do with this execrable mony, they agree that it ought not to be put into the Treasury of the Temple, because it was the price of blood, they agree to buy the Potters field with it, to be a place to bury strangers Pagans, that cared not for the Iews Religion, though they traffiqued to the City.

What this Potters field was, may be gathered from Act. 1.20. with the Prophesy there cited, viz. it was a dearned little bit of ground where the Potters had wrought out all the veins of clay, and left it a desolate plot, out of the way, unfit for habitation, good for nothing, unless it were for such a despicable use as they now bought it for; and this plot did the execrable wages of Judas purchase, and for that reason was called the field of blood.

What this Potters field was, may be gathered from Act. 1.20. with the Prophesy there cited, viz. it was a dearned little bit of ground where the Potters had wrought out all the veins of clay, and left it a desolate plat, out of the way, unfit for habitation, good for nothing, unless it were for such a despicable use as they now bought it for; and this plot did the execrable wages of Judas purchase, and for that reason was called the field of blood.