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Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament. [1] Before the Last Supper , Judas is said to have gone to the chief priests and agreed to hand over Jesus in exchange for 30 silver coins and to have attempted to return the money ...
Matthew 27:6 is the sixth verse of the twenty-seventh chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.This verse continues the final story of Judas Iscariot.In the previous verse Judas had cast into the temple the thirty pieces of silver he'd been paid for betraying Jesus.
The Bargain of Judas is a biblical episode related to the life of Jesus which is recorded in all three Synoptic Gospels, Matthew 26:14–16, Mark 14:10–11 and Luke 22:1–6. It relates how Judas Iscariot made a bargain with the Jewish chief priests to betray Jesus.
It is thus possible that Judas' reversal is some time after the initial trial. By Matthew 27:8, the end of this Judas narrative, it is clear that the time being discussed is after the crucifixion. [6] From the words "when he saw that he was condemned", it has been suggested that Judas had not expected this to be the result of his actions. [7]
Donald Wiseman suggests two possibilities for the identity of the coins used to pay Judas. They may have been tetradrachms of Tyre, usually referred to as Tyrian shekels (about 1.38 troy ounces), or they may have been staters from Antioch, which bore the head of Augustus. [7] Alternatively, they may have been Ptolemaic tetradrachms. [8]
The term "potter's field" comes from Matthew 27:3–27:8 in the New Testament of the Bible, in which Jewish priests take 30 pieces of silver returned by a remorseful Judas: Then Judas, who betrayed him , seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, saying: "I have ...
The money changers expelled by Jesus in the four canonical gospels are those who exchanged worshippers' baser common currency for such shekels. The “30 pieces of silver” paid by the chief priests to Judas Iscariot in exchange for his betrayal of Jesus may be a reference to the Tyrian shekel. [18]
"Thirty pieces of silver": is the price of a slave, gored to death by an ox (Exodus 21:32). This is connected to the bargain of Judas (Matthew 26:15), which the high priest, knowingly or unknowingly, fixed on the price of "thirty pieces of silver." [21] Bereshit Rabba notes that this prophecy 'belongs to the Messiah'. [22] [23]