Matthew 27:7
King James Version
7 Jun 2026
“And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.”
ξένος
Strange, foreign, unusual. Xenos. I was a stranger and you welcomed Me. Jesus identifies with the outsider. Welcoming the stranger is welcoming Him.
συμβούλιον
Counsel
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συμβούλιον
advisement; specially, a deliberative body, i.e. the provincial assessors or lay-court
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λαμβάνω
having taken
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λαμβάνω
while G138 (αἱρέομαι) is more violent, to seize or remove))
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ταφή
a burial place
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ταφή
burial (the act)
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κεραμεύς
potter
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κεραμεύς
a potter
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