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potter's field

noun

(sometimes initial capital letters)
  1. a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matthew 27:7.


potter's field

noun

  1. a cemetery where the poor or unidentified are buried at the public expense
  2. New Testament the land bought by the Sanhedrin with the money paid for the betrayal of Jesus (which Judas had returned to them) to be used as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor (Acts 1:19; Matthew 27:7)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of potter's field1

First recorded in 1520–30
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Could we really have lived through a situation in which, in that city alone, hospitals had to move bodies by forklift into makeshift truck morgues, in which bodies were stored in funeral home viewing rooms and chapels, in which four crematoria worked around the clock and bodies were buried in the same potter's field that has taken in the victims of past yellow fever, tuberculosis, HIV and influenza victims?

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Army Corps of Engineers, before dredging and straightening the river, disinterred this Potter’s Field.

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Soon after, they were buried in unmarked graves in a potter's field.

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The family lived down the street from the potter’s field where the boy was first buried, and placed flowers there on holidays.

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“We played softball next to the potter’s field where he was buried and we would visit him on the holidays, with flowers and prayers,†she said.

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