[blam]

I know, it's pure speculation.

[EggsAckley]

Speculation, yes...but still interesting.

[another cricket]

The area is believed to have been bought by Judas with the money he received for betraying Jesus, and was where he later hanged himself.

Minor correction needed here. Judas gave the money back to the High Priest.

They, rather then return tainted or blood money back into the treasury, used it to buy the "field of blood" for the burial of the poor. Yes, it was the same place where Judas hanged himself.

Whether it was purchased because of that or he chose that place because of where the money came from is unclear. I have heard it argued both ways.

a. cricket

[theDentist]

Seems to me that as long as they were going out on a limb they could have claimed they'd found the bones of Judas himself!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

" . . . it is probable this man was high born or of a priestly family"

. . . which is why he was buried in the potter's field . . .