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Thirty pieces of silver
Zechariah was paid thirty pieces of silver and told to throw them to the potter in the Lord's house. Matthew saw the price of Judas's betrayal, thrown into the temple and used to buy a potter's field, in those words.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
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New TestamentMatthew 27:9-10Open this recordRead the earlier witness
12I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. 13And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord. Read the later witness
9Then what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price set on him by the people of Israel, 10and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.” Why FaithGraph draws this line
Matthew 27:9-10 quotes Zechariah 11:12-13.
Matthew's citation about the thirty pieces of silver thrown to the potter follows Zechariah 11 most closely, though he attributes the words to Jeremiah.
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Other responsible views
- Attribution to Jeremiah. Matthew names Jeremiah although the closest wording is Zechariah 11. Explanations include a combined citation that also draws on Jeremiah's potter and field (Jeremiah 18, 19, 32), naming the major prophet for a scroll collection, or an early copying variant. Readers differ, and FaithGraph does not decide.
The explanation above is FaithGraph editorial content, not Scripture.