It still goes back to Judas not deciding to buy the field. Judas the threw the money at the temple. the priests don't accept the money but, in fact they accept making a decision with the money which means they accepted responsibility for it.
No, it doesn’t. Again, you can’t give anything to someone, unless he accepts it. Judas tried to give the money away, but the priests DIDN’T take it. Since the priests did not accept the loot and told Judas that they couldn’t, Judas still owned it and/or anything purchased with it.
Simply throwing the silver to the ground and leaving didn’t relieve him of responsibility or ownership. For all practical purposes, he let the priests spend the money on his behalf.
That's the point you keep ignoring. As Matthew points out, this was blood money. Taking such was an extremely serious offense in ancient Israel. It is for that very reason that the field gets purchased, the very same field in which Judas' corpse was rotting. Why else would that field have been procured, if the priests could have taken the money, themselves?
They decided to buy the field, therefore they bought the field, not Judas.
They bought a field with Judas's money. In any analogy that's how it's described.
In that ancient context, there is no difference between Judas buying the field himself and the priests doing so on his behalf, using his money (obtained by his treachery). It's called the "Field of Blood", because as Judas admitted, he betrayed innocent blood. All ownership in this matter goes to him.
Thus, there’s no contradiction with Luke’s account and that of Matthew. Matthew simply gives more insight.
Yes it does, because by "throwing" the money at the temple he is releasing responsibility for it.
No, he's not, especially when the priests tell him that they can't take the money.
If i throw money at group of people and leave to go hang myself and those people take the money and buy a bottle of Jack Daniels did i buy the bottle or did they?
They bought the bottle.
The priests bought the field.
If they tell you that they won't take responsibility for this money and will not be held liable for what happens, yet you throw the money at them, anyway...........YES, YOU DID BUY THE BOTTLE.
Judas accepted the fact that the priests couldn't accept his blood money. And, he threw the silver down, knowing that whatever was done or bought with it would be charged to him and done in his name. Therefore, Judas bought the "Field of Blood".
