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Zechariah:

Written between 520 and 480 B.C.

Says: Chapter 11: 12-14 {Then I said, "If you want to pay me, pay me. If not, then don't." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.

The Lord said to me, "Throw the money to the potter." That is how little they thought I was worth. (about the price paid for a slave) So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the Temple of the Lord.

Then I broke the second stick, named Union, to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.}

Now doesn't this sound familiar? Let's travel to between 50 and 70 A.D. In the book of Matthew.

Chapter 27: 3-10 { Judas, the one who had given Jesus to his enemies, saw that they had decided to kill Jesus. Then he was very sorry for what he had done. So he took the thirty silver coins had done. So he took the thirty silver coins back to the priests and the leaders, saying, "I have sinned; I handed over to you an innocent man."

The leaders answered, "What is that to us? That's your problem, not ours."

So Judas threw the money into the Temple.

Then he went off and hanged himself.

The leading priests picked up the silver coins in the Temple and said, "Our law does not allow us to keep this money with the Temple money, because it has paid for a man's death." So they decided to use the coins to buy Potter's Field as a place to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem. That is why that field is still called the Field of Blood. So what Jeremiah the prophet had said came true: "They took thirty silver coins. That is how little the Israelites thought he was worth. They used those thirty silver coins to buy the potter's field, as the Lord commanded me."}

Not only had it been said in Jeremiah, but also in Zechariah!

Did you think that the Pharisees bought Potter's Field because it was written in the scriptures? I can bet that the scriptures did not pass their mind during that moment. They were excellent teachers of the law but they were thinking of a useful way to use the money, but they did not know that they were fulfilling the prophecies.