Thematic Bible: The price of Christ's betrayal


Thematic Bible



(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.

What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;

And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain