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The 'Field of Blood' — Aramaic ḥăqēl dəmā, which Luke transliterates and then translates for his Greek readers, a small detail that tells you a good deal about who he was writing for. Both Gospels and Acts agree that a plot of ground outside Jerusalem was bought with the betrayal money and carried that name; they explain the name differently, and this library prints both accounts. ⚠ The pin is TRADITIONAL, not certain: the site shown to pilgrims since at least the fourth century lies on the southern slope of the Hinnom valley, where Jerusalem's potters worked the clay and where rock-cut tombs were used as a burial ground for foreigners — which fits Matthew's 'field for the burial of strangers'. The identification is early and plausible; it is not evidence.

in the text Acts 1:19
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