Zechariah 11 Q&A with Sachin and Maggie

um carl uh spoke from zechariah chapter 11 this past week and so we've got a few questions that we're keen to think through um julia and amika to start with have both asked about the silver the 30 pieces of silver that are mentioned in zechariah 11.

They ask, why did Zechariah throw away the silver? Was it just something to be fulfilled that the Gospel writers pick up on? Or is that actually the amount Judas accepted in the Gospels? What are your thoughts, Sachin, about Zechariah throwing away the silver?

Yeah, these are really good questions.

For those of you who are at TBT, I think this falls into the third act of the prophetic acts that Zechariah made.

I'll just read from verse 13.

And we see this is a prophetic act.

But Carl took us to Matthew chapter 26 and 27, where we see Judas and the chief high priest once price the life of Jesus.

So I'm going to flick over there.

And let's just read Matthew chapter 26, verses 14 to 16.

And then we see this idea picked up in Matthew chapter 27, in verse 3.

Then, when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned...

He changed his mind and brought back the 30 pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.

They say, what is that to us? See to it yourself.

And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed and he went and hanged himself.

So we see this idea where, as mentioned in Zechariah, the lordly price that these bad shepherds have priced God at, we see this fulfilled in Matthew 26 and 27, when Judas and the chief high priests priced the Lord Jesus at the lordly price of 30 pieces of silver, which we actually saw in Exodus 21, verse 32, that that was a price that you pay for a slave that was killed by an ox.

So not a big price.

As for the question on, is this a symbol that was picked up by the gospel writers? Is this something that actually happened? we believe that we can actually trust the gospel writers are writing an eyewitness account.

In the Gospel of Luke, he makes it very clear at the start of his book, but that's the same for all the gospel writers.

So we can trust that the recorded amount that Judas received and threw into the temple is actually what happened and actually draws attention to the fulfillment of Zechariah 11.

And

I

think this is just such a great example use of just showing how God is sovereign and knows everything that's going to happen.

And it actually points to the fact that Israel's shepherds completely undervalued Jesus as well.

Speaking of undervalued shepherds and rulers, thinking about our context now, we had this question from Sharon.