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This is a story about 30 shekels, 3 shepherds, 2 sticks (<\/span>No’am<\/span><\/em>, “Favor,” which bestows favor, and <\/span>Chovlim<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> ‘bands that bind’ \u2013 hence “Unity” \u2013 but which can destroy, thus basically Zechariah’s version of the carrot and the stick), and 1 God.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is Zechariah’s letter to the shepherds; the Christians will embrace the image of the shepherd and his flock, just as they did for other phrases and images from the prophecies of Zechariah in their Gospels about Jesus, his entrance to Jerusalem, and his death.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given that the fate of the sheep to be slaughtered is a tragic one \u2013 “let the one that is to die die and the one that is to get lost get lost; and let the rest devour each other\u2019s flesh!” \u2013 it’s no wonder that the shepherd demands a fare wage for his labors. They offer him “30 shekels of silver.” And the prophet, who is the shepherd, and God who is the Shepherd of all shepherds, saw that it was a bad deal: “The LORD said to me, ‘Deposit it (<\/span>or<\/span><\/i>: fling it\u2026) in the treasury.’ And I took the thirty shekels and deposited it in the treasury in the House of the LORD” (verse 13).<\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus and his disciples “fulfill” the words of the prophets. When Judas, son of Simon, Iscariot (<\/span>ish kerayot<\/span><\/em> in Hebrew) names his terms to the heads of the priests in Jerusalem “Whatever you shall give me, and I shall deliver him unto you” (which is his version of Zechariah’s line \u2013 “If you are satisfied, pay me my wages” \u2013 verse 12), and the priests offer him 30 shekels of silver.<\/span><\/p>\n

God instructs Zechariah to refuse this offer scornfully \u2013 “Fling it into the treasury” (“the noble sum that I was worth in their estimation”). But as opposed to this shepherd who deposits his salary in the treasury of the Temple (for its rebuilding), Judas, who betrayed his rabbi with a kiss, “repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders. He said, ‘I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.’ But they said, ‘What is that to us? See to it yourself.’ Throwing down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed; and he went and hanged himself. But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, ‘It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since they are blood money.’ After conferring together, they used them to buy the potter\u2019s field as a place to bury foreigners. For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet ‘And they took the thirty pieces of silver,’ the price of the one on whom a price had been set, and they gave<\/span> them for the potter\u2019s field…\u201d (Matthew 27:3-10, New RSV).<\/span><\/p>\n

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