So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers.
And they took counsel,.... With one another, considered of the matter, and deliberated about it a while; and at last came to a resolution, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in: a field of no great value, or it could not have been bought so near Jerusalem for so small a sum as thirty pieces of silver.
Verse 7. And they took counsel, etc. They consulted among themselves about the proper way to dispose of this money. And bought with them. In , it is said of Judas that he "purchased a field with the reward of iniquity." By the passage in the Acts is meant no more than that he furnished the means, or was the occasion of purchasing the field.
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. (d) Strangers and guests, whom the Jews could not endure to be joined with even after they were dead.