Matthew 26:15 (WEB)
and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?” So they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
As quoted in the map (KJV)
Matthew 26:15 (KJV)
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.
Key words
- τριάκοντα ἀργύριαtriakonta argyria · Greek
- 'thirty pieces of silver' — the price of a slave (Exodus 21:32) and the wage of the rejected shepherd (Zechariah 11:12).
- ἸούδαςIoudas · Greek
- 'Judas' — the Greek form of 'Judah,' the brother who proposed selling Joseph for silver (Genesis 37:26–28).
Why it matters
Judas sells Jesus to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver. Pitre sets this beside Joseph, sold for twenty pieces of silver by his brothers on Judah's suggestion: the beloved son betrayed and sold by his own. If Jesus is the new Joseph, then Mary, the mother of the betrayed son, is the New Rachel.