Thirty pieces of silver

I told them, If you think it best, give me my pay, but if not, keep it.

So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.

And now the big picture surrounding this verse.

Zechariah continues to tell us more about the coming Messiah, and as part of his teaching, today's verse mentions the infamous thirty pieces of silver, which were to be paid to Judas Iscariot when he betrayed Jesus many centuries later.

Ironically, this was the price of a slave back in the days of Moses, Exodus chapter 21, verse 32.

And now today's action step.

Beginning in 1112, Then I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my wages, but if not, keep them.

And they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.

Then the Lord said to me, Throw it to the potter, the lordly price at which I was priced by them.

So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord to the potter.

Now Zechariah is prophesying Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

At the time, 30 pieces of silver was the payment for a slave that had been severely disfigured or disabled.

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A friend betrayed him for thirty pieces of silver.

Even the man of my peace in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.

P.S. 41-10.

Immediately he came to Jesus and said, Greetings, Rabbi, and kissed him very much.

And Jesus said to him, Friend, why have you come? Then they came and laid their hands on Jesus and seized him.

Then one of the twelve, named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they set him thirty pieces of silver.

And from then on he looked for an opportunity to hand him over.