Pertanyaan: 225. Berapa Nilai Tiga Puluh Keping Perak yang Diterima oleh Yudas?
Pecahan-pcahan perak itu kemungkinan adalah syikal. Nilai keseluruhan jumlahnya dalam perhitungan modern kita sekitar delapan belas dolar. Zakharia telah meramalkan seluruh transaksi ini (lihat Zakh. 11:12,13): Mereka menimbang harga-Ku tiga puluh keping perak dan Tuhan berfirman lemparkanlah itu kepada tukang periuk, dll. Tidak mungkin Yudas bertindak semata-mata karena keserakahan, meskipun dia doyan uang. Kemungkinan dia bermaksud memaksa tangan Kristus. Mungkin dia menganggap Kristus enggan mengklaim kerajaan, dan mengira bahwa jika dia dipaksa, Kristus akan menyelamatkan diri dengan mujizat dan menyatakan diri sebagai raja. Teori itu diperkuat dengan bunuh dirinya ketika dia menemukan konsekuensi dari perbuatannya.
Question: 225. What Was the Value of the Thirty Pieces of Silver That Judas Received?
The pieces of silver were probably shekels. The value of the whole sum in our modern reckoning was about eighteen dollars. Zechariah had predicted the whole transaction (see Zech. 11:12,13): "They weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver and the Lord said cast it unto the potter," etc. It is not likely that Judas acted from avarice only, though he was fond of money. He probably meant to force Christ's hand. He may have thought him backward in claiming the kingdom, and supposed that if he was driven to bay, he would deliver himself by a miracle and declare himself king. That theory is confirmed by his committing suicide when he discovered the consequences of his act
