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Zechariah the Prophet wrote about thirty pieces of silver that related to His judgment. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the Lord, to the potter.
Interestingly, this place was used for the burial of strangers. The most significant mention of thirty pieces of silver is the account where Judas agreed to betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver.
See to it yourself. In addition The Prophet Jeremiah had prophesied about this long ago Jer It would have never been paid Rev We were no more capable of breaking our bondage that the Jews were in overturning Rome.
The only question is who is the master? Is it sin or is it God? Are you slaves to sin or slaves to righteousness God?
Who wants to be opposed to God!? Today, people are still putting their trust in Jesus Christ and no amount of persecution seems to stop believers from denying Christ; even when they are betrayed by their own family, and not even for thirty pieces of silver. Read more about this Bible character and thirty pieces of silver: Graduate work at Moody Bible Institute.
Keener , The Gospel of Matthew: Verso Books, , Historians tend to agree that most probably, Judas was paid in Tyrian Shekel. Your email address will not be published. Sometimes a money bag is used in depictions; otherwise a hand holding the coins, or two hands, showing the counting-out. Since you are here…. I could not bear it, although it was light, and I let it fall.
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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 in the New Testament. The slave's death was compensated by the thirty pieces of silver. There are two other places in the Bible that specifically mention the amount of thirty pieces of.
Although many scholars see Jeremiah's name as included in error, [21] Jeremiah's purchase of a field in Jeremiah 32 may indicate that both prophets are in mind. Blomberg also suggests that Matthew may also be saying that "Jesus' death is a ransom, the price paid to secure a slave's freedom," and that the use of the blood money to buy a burial ground for foreigners Matthew This word occurs in two passages-- A the account of the betrayal of our Lord for "thirty pieces of silver" Matt.
These have usually been considered to be denarii, but on no sufficient ground. The parallel passage in Zechariah xi. The passage may therefore be explained as "thirty shekels of silver", not current shekels, but tetradrachms of the Attic standard of the Greek cities of Syria and Phoencia. These tetradrachms were common at the time of our Lord, and of them the stater was a specimen.
Judas is often shown in narrative scenes from the Passion holding the silver in a bag or purse, where they serve as an attribute to identify him. As one of the " Instruments of the Passion " the Thirty Pieces by themselves often feature in groups of the Instruments, especially in the late Middle Ages, although they are one of the less commonly chosen elements of the group. Sometimes a money bag is used in depictions; otherwise a hand holding the coins, or two hands, showing the counting-out. A number of "Judas-pennies", ancient coins said to be from the original thirty, were treated as relics in the Middle Ages, and were believed to help in difficult cases of childbirth.
This was as a result of new styles of devotions, led by the Franciscans in particular, which promoted contemplation of the Passion episode by episode, as in the Stations of the Cross. A Syracusan decadrachm held at the Hunt Museum , Limerick is one such coin claimed to be one of the thirty: The coin fell on my hollow hand. I could not bear it, although it was light, and I let it fall.
It was all in vain. The phrase "30 pieces of silver" is used more generally to describe a price at which people sell out. In Shakespeare 's play Henry IV, Part 2 , the mistress of Falstaff asks "and didst thou not kiss me, and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings? Tennyson Jesse relates the rediscovery in modern times of the thirty pieces of silver and how they drive men to kill in varied forms including murder, manslaughter, homicide, euthanasia and suicide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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