Add parallel Print Page Options

11 So that day the agreement was finished, and those poor sheep watching me knew that this message was from the Lord.

12 Then I said, “If you want to pay me, pay me. If not, don’t!” So they paid me 30 pieces of silver. 13 Then the Lord told me, “So that’s how much they think I’m worth. Throw that large amount of money[a] into the Temple treasury.” So I took the 30 pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury at the Lord’s Temple.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 11:13 large amount of money The Lord was making fun of the people. This was only the amount of money a person paid for a slave.

11 It was revoked on that day, and so the oppressed of the flock who were watching me knew it was the word of the Lord.

12 I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.(A)

13 And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver(B) and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord.(C)

Read full chapter