MATTHEW 26:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.”
And said: what will you give me if I deliver him over to you? And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. The commercial character of the betrayal: what will you give me. The thirty pieces of silver — the price of a slave gored by an ox in Exodus 21:32, and the fulfillment of Zechariah 11:12–13 (they weighed out thirty pieces of silver as my wages) — is the price the chief priests agreed on. The temple authorities paid the price of a slave for the one they would crucify.
Church Fathers on Matthew 26:15
Having described the occasion of his treachery, the Evangelist proceeds to recount the manner of it.
'Then,' when, that is, he heard that this Gospel should be preached every where; for that made him afraid, as it was indeed a mark of unspeakable power.
The order of the narrative is this. The Lord says, 'Ye know that after two days will be the feast of the Passover;... then assembled together the Chief Priests and Scribes;... then went one of the twelve.'
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