Why Thirty Pieces Of Silver?

Well, I'm very curious as to what you see in this number 30.

More from Zechariah 11:
6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor`s hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them. Zech 11

Fulfillment:
49 I came to cast fire upon the earth (the land) and what do I desire, if it is already kindled?
50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
51 Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth (the land)? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
52 for there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
53 They shall be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law. Lu 12

Josephus records that there more Jews killed by Jews than by Romans during the civil war 66-70AD.

More from Zachariah 11:
7 So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock. Zech 11

Fulfillment:
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 And he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
15 For this people`s heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

Christ fed 'the flock of slaughter' parables/riddles/dark sayings so that they WOULD NOT understand.

Flock of slaughter:
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33 Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
34 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:
35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth (the land), from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.
36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. Mt 23

More from Zachariah 11:
12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.
13 And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter, the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the house of Jehovah.

Fulfillment:
3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to it.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter`s field, to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day. Mt 27

 

...sorry, my enthusiasm gets the best of me sometimes

 

As JonC stated, thirty pieces of silver was the common price of a slave.

Think about it. The Son of God, God Himself, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, was betrayed for the price of a slave.

It just demonstrates the humiliation of Jesus in this betrayal, torture, crucifixion and death.

peace to you

 

Was the 30 pieces of silver for the duration of the 7 years or the 50 years? That whole “year of jubilee” and “sabbath year” thing for Hebrew slaves. I was just thinking about how the business of breeding slaves common in the US and Rome, was probably contrary to the Law of God in Israel.

 

Philippians 2:5-8 KJVS
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6] Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: [7] But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: [8] And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

 

It is quite an ironic situation when one really thinks about all of the pieces in motion ...

The PRIESTS - who were supposed to worship and serve God, but who "HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME" - made a payment in Temple Silver Coins. That payment was made to Judas - whom "Satan entered into Judas". Thus in a sense, payment was made from the Priests of God to Satan in God's own coins - to betray the Christ.

However, the whole time, Jesus had set His eye on Jerusalem and the Cross as His goal ... nothing would have stopped Him. Jesus would be that bronze snake, sin judged and condemned, "hung on a tree" and cursed [God cannot be cursed, so it was our condemned sin that would be cursed] ... just as Jesus said in John 3 about the story of Moses and the bronze snake on a pole.

With the 30 pieces of silver being the price a Priest paid for killing a slave [which is what they DID (1) and what HE was (2)] and 30 pieces of silver being the price that a Bridegroom paid to redeem a Bride that was a slave [which is what WE were (3) and what JESUS did (4)].

1. Acts of the Apostles 5:30
2. Matthew 20:28
3. John 8:34
4. Galatians 3:13

Nothing was quite what it seemed and everything was EXACTLY what it was!
Hats off to God ... HE sure has style.

Soli Deo Gloria!