And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Burying-place. this the Pharisees did, as a show of their charity to strangers; but their intention, according to St. Jerome, was to disgrace Jesus; thus to keep alive in the minds of the people, that he was sold by one of his own disciples, and delivered up to a disgraceful death. (Denis the Carthusian)
