Meditation

Hi there,

​Next week's writing schedule is quite heavy as we go nonstop for eight days from Palm Sunday to Resurrection Sunday.​

So, we'll end this week with a light writing load but a heavy spiritual one.​

The price of the betrayal, 30 pieces of silver, is notable in Scripture for being the price of a slave or four months’ wages for the average worker.​

In the Old Testament, this was the penalty paid by the owner of an Ox if it gored a slave to death;​

“If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver…” Exodus 21:32​

Likewise, Judas’ 30 pieces of silver refers back to Zechariah 11:12–13, where the prophet is paid 30 pieces of silver—called a “handsome price” sarcastically—for his service as a shepherd of Israel.​

God tells him to throw it to the potter, which Matthew echoes when Judas, in regret, throws the silver into the temple, and it’s used to buy a potter’s field (Matthew 27:3–10).​

Contrast the value that the Chief Priests place on Jesus' head with Mary's extravagant anointing perfume, which Mark's gospel notes would have cost "more than three hundred denarii"...a year's wages.​

Today's text is Matthew 26:14-16.

Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus

¹⁴ Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests ¹⁵ and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.​

¹⁶ From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

Encouragement

“[He] made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant…Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name…”

Philippians 2:7–9 (NIV)

Andy

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