the potters field] The heart whereof was taken off for potters use: else it was a small plot that could be bought for so small a price. to bury strangers in] Men of another religion, whom the Jews could not abide to be joyned to, no not after they were dead. Or, of their own nation or religion, which dwelt in other places, and coming to Jerusalem to the feasts, Acts 2:10. or upon other occasions, died there.