That field has been called may have to be transformed into an active sentence: “People call that field.”

Field of Blood was the name given to potter’s field following its purchase with “blood money” received by Judas. For a different explanation of Field of Blood, see Acts 1.19, where the name is derived from the spilling of Judas’ blood on that field.

To this day refers to the time when Matthew was writing, but translators cannot say something like “up to the time this book was written,” since their task is to translate what Matthew said to his own audience.

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Stine, Philip C. A Handbook on the Gospel of Matthew. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1988. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .