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and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore
that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.”
If any testimony had been needed to prove the innocence of Jesus,
it was given in the confession of Judas. Not only was it an evidence of
the innocence of the Saviour, but the event was a direct fulfillment of
prophecy. In prophetic vision Zechariah had looked down the ages and
seen the trial of God’s dear Son. The act of Judas is thus described:
“And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not,
forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the
Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter; a goodly price that I was
prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them
to the potter in the house of the Lord.”
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