Potter's field
Inspirational
I've Heard That All My Life!
Familiar Expressions from the Bible
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Expression: Potter's field
Location: Matthew 27:7
Verse: And they took counsel, and bought with them [the money] the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be considered one of the most amazing child prodigies in history. By the age of six, he could play the harpsichord and violin. At age eight he wrote a symphony. When Mozart was only 35 years old, his health began to deteriorate. He was working on a requiem, a mass for the dead. Mozart rushed to finish it while on his own deathbed. He died shortly before his 36th birthday.
In view of his debts, Mozart received a pauper's funeral. His friends followed the hearse to his funeral, but when a violent storm came up on them, they turned back, leaving the hearse to proceed alone. With not a note of music, Mozart was placed in the common potter's field.
The expression "potter's field" has survived to this day to denote a burial place for strangers and the poor. The expression goes back some 2,000 years.
Judas Iscariot accepted thirty pieces of silver for turning over Jesus Christ to the chief priests of Jerusalem. After Judas realized the great sin that he had committed, he tried to give the money to the Temple. However, the chief priests and elders felt that the silver was unfit for Temple use. So with that money they bought a plot of land to be used as the "potter's field."
The term "potter's field" comes from the fact that clay was dug from the field and was used by artisans to mold their pottery.
Location: Matthew 27:7
Verse: And they took counsel, and bought with them [the money] the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be considered one of the most amazing child prodigies in history. By the age of six, he could play the harpsichord and violin. At age eight he wrote a symphony. When Mozart was only 35 years old, his health began to deteriorate. He was working on a requiem, a mass for the dead. Mozart rushed to finish it while on his own deathbed. He died shortly before his 36th birthday.
In view of his debts, Mozart received a pauper's funeral. His friends followed the hearse to his funeral, but when a violent storm came up on them, they turned back, leaving the hearse to proceed alone. With not a note of music, Mozart was placed in the common potter's field.
The expression "potter's field" has survived to this day to denote a burial place for strangers and the poor. The expression goes back some 2,000 years.
Judas Iscariot accepted thirty pieces of silver for turning over Jesus Christ to the chief priests of Jerusalem. After Judas realized the great sin that he had committed, he tried to give the money to the Temple. However, the chief priests and elders felt that the silver was unfit for Temple use. So with that money they bought a plot of land to be used as the "potter's field."
The term "potter's field" comes from the fact that clay was dug from the field and was used by artisans to mold their pottery.
