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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4540695, member: 75937&quot;]I believe [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] is correct here. The author of Matthew probably wrote τριάκοντα ἀργύρια (thirty pieces of silver) in 26:15 in order to make the subsequent (27:9) claim that the subsequent purchase of the Potter&#039;s field was fulfillment, by Jesus, of a prophecy by Jeremiah (which is incorrect; it&#039;s Zechariah). This is a fairly standard explanation in commentaries on Matthew.*</p><p><br /></p><p>It may that the author of Zechariah and the redactor of the Pentateuch were influenced by each other (we truly don&#039;t know which was written first; they both likely date to the late 6th century BCE, though material incorporated into Exodus dates to much earlier), as Exodus 21:32 uses the same terminology, as [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] notes above. Erica Reiner has an interesting interpretation: that &quot;thirty shekels&quot; reflects an idiomatic Sumerian expression for something worth little.**</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>*For example, Frederick Dale Bruner, <i>Matthew: A Commentary</i> (Eerdmans, 2004), p. 710, and Donald A. Hagner, <i>Word Biblical Commentary 33b: Matthew 14-28</i> (Word Books), p. 761.</p><p><br /></p><p>** Reiner, Erica. &quot;Thirty Pieces of Silver.&quot; <i>JAOS</i> 88 (1968), 186-90.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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