"Give me my price"
“And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.” Zechariah 11.12-13 We stagger at the blindness of Israel. Her utter contempt for the Lord Jesus Christ astounds us. Zechariah has shown us many wonderful scenes of the Messiah in His kingly glory and dignity, but now he predicts the time of His rejection. Zezhariah’s message is graphic. He takes on the role of the Messiah and asks, “If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver” (v. 12). Thirty pieces of silver! They knew the contempt of such a price (Ex. 21.32). Only willful blindness could result in the wicked crime of Judas unknowingly fulfilling this prophecy. Matthew ma...