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The phrase "30 pieces of silver" is used more generally to describe a price at which people sell out. [34] In Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, it is echoed in the 30 roubles which the character Sonia earns for selling herself. [35] [36] In the folk-song King John and the Bishop, the bishop's answer to the riddle of how much the king is worth ...
saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; 10 And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me. The modern World English Bible translates the passage as: 9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,
According to the Gospel of Matthew 26:15, the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus was thirty pieces of silver. Scholars disagree on the identity of the coins involved. Donald Wiseman suggests two possibilities for the identity of the coins used to pay Judas.
Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver is a painting by Rembrandt. [1] It depicts the story of Matthew 27:3: "Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders".
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 value of silver dollars can vary greatly, whether it’s the 1964 Kennedy half dollar or the 1922 silver dollar coin. And some rare specimens fetch astounding amounts at auctions.
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 coins themselves measure 1.6-inches and are a "1oz .999% silver medallion." That puts the value of the precious metal in the coin at just $30.