Good Morning Friends,
“I told them, ‘If you think it best, give me
my pay; but if not, keep it.’ So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. And the
LORD said to me, ‘Throw it to the potter’ -- the handsome price at which they
priced me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house
of the LORD to the potter.” (Zechariah 11:12-13)
500 years before the birth of Jesus,
Zechariah prophesied about the price of His betrayal and what would happen to
the money. This passage is clearly a prophesy that was fulfilled in the actions
of Judas. He betrayed Jesus and the Jewish leaders paid him the price they
thought his betrayal was worth: 30 pieces of silver. (Matthew 26:15)
When Jesus was condemned, Judas felt deep
sorrow for what he had done. Some think that Judas believed he was forcing
Jesus to reveal Himself as King. But that wasn’t the outcome of his betrayal! Well,
actually it was, but not in the way that Judas thought it would happen. It was through
death and resurrection that Jesus was revealed as King, not through ascending
an earthly throne by military might or miraculous power.
Judas brought the money back to the priests,
letting them know that what he had done was wrong, probably hoping they would
stop the condemnation of Jesus. (Matthew 27:3) But the priests had already
received what they wanted and would have nothing to do with Judas. So he threw
the money into the temple. (Matthew 27:5) The priests took the money and bought
a potter’s field that would be used to bury strangers. (Matthew 27:7)
And so, even Judas and the priests fulfilled
the prophetic word of the Lord. They didn’t scheme to fulfill it, but God used
them, even against their own knowledge to demonstrate that He knows the future.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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