Origen, on Matt 27:6

“But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood.”

“They thought it meet to spend upon the dead that money which was the price of blood. But as there are differences even in burial places, they used the price of Jesus’ blood in the purchase of some potter’s field, where foreigners might be buried, not as they desired in the sepulchres of their fathers.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.