Matthew 27:9 –
“Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet,…”
John Gills says the
following about this reference to Jeremy or Jeremiah the prophet, as there is no
prophecy in the entire book of Jeremiah, which refers to the purchase of a
potter’s field for 30 pieces of silver.
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Zechariah had
two names – Zechariah and Jeremiah – but there is no proof of this.
(WWR – I doubt this is true.)
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Jerom declares
he read in a non-canonical book by Jeremiah these very words; therefore this
is the book Matthew is referring to.
(WWR – I doubt this passage in Matthew refers to any non-canonical passage.)
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Mr. Medes has
labored to make the last four chapters of the book of Zechariah to be
written by Jeremiah. (WWR – sounds
like he is trying to make things fit together.)
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John Gill
believes the best solution is that the Jews divided the Old Testament into
three divisions: (1) The Law – written by Moses, (2) The Prophets, which was
divided into two parts – the former and the latter.
The former prophets began with Joshua and the latter prophets began
with Jeremiah, (3) Cetubim or Hagiographa, (the Holy Writings), which began
with the Psalms. John Gills states
that the beginning book referred to a particular division of the Old
Testament.
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Matthew Henry;
Jamieson, Fausset, Brown, and Lightfoot also believes the same as John Gill.