The list maker (list of 365 supposed prophecies Jesus fulfilled) is yet again repeating a claim. This claim was made just two lines before, #349: "Zechariah 11:12-13a...Betrayed for thirty pieces of silver... Matthew 26:14-15." It was not true in that claim and it is not true here either. Which brings up an interesting point: Matthew 27 gets its reference wrong. "Then 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, and they used them to buy the potter’s field, as the L-rd commanded me.” Matthew 27:9 - 10. Um. Wrong. Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah says no such thing. Funny enough the NIV translation footnotes Matthew 27 with a reference to "Jeremiah 19." Check the reference. It has nothing to do with 30 pieces of silver or a price to buy a potter's field. Y'rmiayhu / Jeremiah 19 mentions buying a potter's earthen jug (not a potter's field!). G-d told Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah to buy a jug from a potter (specifically a clay jug). He was to go to the Dung Gate, where broken pottery was thrown away. The people were sacrificing their children to false gods -- and the prophet was to prophesy against them -- warning them that this would lead to their destruction -- then he was to smash the jug in front of the leaders of the people. A jug. A potter's jug. Not a potter's field -- and nothing whatsoever to do with 30 pieces of silver. The NIV also references Jeremiah 32 as "fulfillment" of Matthew 27. Also incorrect. Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah 32 has the prophet imprisoned. The prophet had a vision that his cousin חֲנַמְאֵל / Ch'namel is coming to see him to ask Jeremiah to use his right of redemption to purchase a field of his in Anasos. Apparently a request to purchase a field somehow equates (in the minds of the NIV translators) to a prophesy fulfilled? Again -- 650+ years before Jesus supposedly lived we have the prophet being asked to buy a field -- but somehow this is a prophesy that someone will pay Judas 30 coins to buy a field? This is not a prophesy of the messiah being betrayed -- and one only need to read Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah 32 to learn the truth. G-d says that the Jews in Babylonian exile will return to the land of Israel -- and when they do return they will buy and sell property. . . "Men shall buy fields for money and inscribe deeds and sign [them] and appoint witnesses in the land of Benjamin and in the environs of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah and in the cities of the mountain and in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the southland, for I will restore their captivity, says the L-rd." Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah 32:44. Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah selling land to his cousin (no mention of 30 pieces of silver) -- while he is in captivity and cannot claim that land -- shows his trust in G-d to restore the Jewish people to their land. . . It has nothing to do with the messiah, nothing to do with Jesus, nothing to do with Matthew and nothing to do with 30 pieces of silver being thrown into the Temple. . . And what of Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 -- which the list maker claims is a "fulfillment" of Matthew 26 where Judas is paid 30 pieces of silver? Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 (not Y'rmiyahu / Jeremiah) mentions 30 pieces of silver -- but nothing about this being a price set by the people of Israel. In Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 G-d mentions 30 pieces of silver (not Israel). The 30 pieces of silver are not used to "buy" a field -- they are not really coins at all. . . they are a metaphor for 30 righteous men -- G-d's "pay" to redeem the Jewish people from exile. . . more on that momentarily. . . Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 - 12-13 is not a messianic prophecy. It has nothing to do with Jesus being betrayed for 30 pieces of silver. It not about the messiah. It is not a prophecy at all -- but rather a command! G-d commands the prophet Z'charyiah / Zechariah "And the L-rd said to me: Cast it (30 silver coins) to the keeper of the treasury, to the stronghold of glory-of which I stripped them. " Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 - 13. And Z'chariyah / Zechariah did as G-d commanded "And I (Z'charyah / Zechariah) took the thirty pieces of silver, and I (Z'charyah / Zechariah) cast it into the house of the L-rd, to the keeper of the treasury." Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 - 13. Done. Took. Cast it into the Temple. 500+ years before Jesus was supposedly born. Apparently the mere mention of "thirty pieces of silver" is enough for the list maker -- even though in Z'charyah / Zechariah 11 G-d is not speaking of actual coins, but is rather comparing thirty righteous people pieces of silver. Using this metaphor G-d said He would put these righteous men (coins) “in the treasury,” -- they would live through the seventy years of exile and return, along with the people, to the land of Israel (Judah) to rebuild the Temple.
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