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Jan 16, 2023 · In the Hebrew culture, thirty pieces of silver was not a lot of money. In fact, it was the exact price paid to the master of a slave if and when his slave was gored by an ox (Exodus 21:32).In ...
Mar 11, 2022 · During New Testament times and within Hebrew culture, 30 pieces of silver was not a large amount of money. Thirty pieces of silver was the amount required for a person to pay a master if his slave was gored by a bull as Exodus 21:32 tells us, “If the bull gores a male or female slave, the owner must pay 30 shekels of silver to the master of the slave, and the bull is to be stoned to death.”
Luke 15:8-10. Either what woman — As if he had said, To illustrate the matter by another obvious similitude, that it may yet more powerfully strike your minds, what woman, having ten pieces of silver — Though each of them but of the value of a drachma; or about seven pence halfpenny, and the whole only about six shillings three pence sterling money: if she lose one piece — Out of her ...
Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament. Before the Last Supper , Judas is said to have gone to the chief priests and agreed to hand over Jesus in exchange for 30 silver coins and to have attempted to return the money afterwards, filled with remorse.
Jun 6, 2019 · Thirty Pieces of Silver as the Price of a Slave. If we turn to the Law of Moses (Exodus 21:32), we learn that if an animal gores a slave to death, the animal’s owner must pay thirty shekels for the loss of the slave. The slave is valued at thirty shekels. From this perspective, Jesus is priced as a slave. His death is the value of the death ...
The Parable about the Coins. 11 As they were listening to this, Jesus[ a] went on to tell a parable because he was near Jerusalem and because the people[ b] thought that the kingdom of God would appear immediately. 12 So he said, “A prince went to a distant country to be appointed king and then to return. 13 He called ten of his servants and ...
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER. AN EXPLORATION OF CORRUPTION, BRIBERY, TRANSPARENCY & JUSTICE IN THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES. BY DR PAULA GOODER THEOLOGIAN IN RESIDENCE, BIBLE SOCIETY. Spirituality and resisting corruption are closely tied together in the Bible where right behaviour is inextricably linked to the worship of God.
