Matthew 26:15
Good News Translation
and asked, "What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to him.

New Revised Standard Version
and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Contemporary English Version
and asked, "How much will you give me if I help you arrest Jesus?" They paid Judas 30 silver coins,

New American Bible
and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.

What.

Genesis 38:16 And going to her, he said: Suffer me to lie with thee: for he knew her not to be his daughter-in-law. And she answered: What wilt thou give me to enjoy my company?

Judges 16:5 And the princes of the Philistines came to her, and said: Deceive him, and learn of him wherein his great strength lieth, and how we may be able to overcome him, to bind and afflict him: which if thou shalt do, we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Judges 17:10 And Michas said: Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver, and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals.

Judges 18:19,20 And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy mouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a priest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one man, or in a tribe and family in Israel? . . .

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

1 Timothy 3:3 Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

1 Timothy 6:9,10 For they that will become rich fall into temptation and into the snare of the devil and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. . . .

2 Peter 2:3,14,15 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not. . . .

thirty.

3s., with Prideaux, would amount to about

Matthew 26:4 And they consulted together that by subtilty they might apprehend Jesus and put him to death.

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10s., the price for the meanest slave! (See Ex.

Matthew 21:32 For John came to you in the way of justice: and you did not believe him. But the publicans and the harlots believed him: but you, seeing it, did not even afterwards repent, that you might believe him.

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Matthew 27:3-5 Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients, . . .

Genesis 37:26-28 And Juda said to his brethren: What will it profit us to kill our brother, and conceal his blood? . . .

Zechariah 11:12,13 And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. . . .

Acts 1:18 And he indeed hath possessed a field of the reward of iniquity, and being hanged, burst asunder in the midst: and all his bowels gushed out.

Context
Judas Agrees to Betray Jesus
14Then went one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests. 15And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver. 16And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.…
Cross References
Exodus 21:32
If he assault a bondman or bondwoman, he shall give thirty sicles of silver to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Zechariah 11:12
And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

Matthew 10:4
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Matthew 26:16
And from thenceforth he sought opportunity to betray him.

Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, who betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, repenting himself, brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and ancients,

Matthew 26:14
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