Where and what was the field of blood?
Aceldama - Gate of the Monastery Aceldama, Aramaic name for a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot, one of the followers of Jesus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem ; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama , that is to say, The field of blood.” ( Acts 1:19 ) Never was a tract of land more fittingly named than Aceldama, an Aramaic word meaning “field of blood,” for it had been purchased with blood money, “the price of blood” ( Matthew 27:6 ). The purchaser had been Judas (through the “executors” of his estate, as it were, following his suicide), but the blood he sold, to acquire the price of the field, he had deemed “innocent blood.” The miserable thirty shekels of silver which consummated this transaction was the price of a slave in ancient Israel ( Exodus 21:32 ), butthis slave was none other than God incarnate, so the thirty pieces of silver —the price set by the religious leaders of Israel —...