THE PRICE of INNOCENT BLOOD

ALL the disciples have forsaken Jesus. Now it’s ALL the chief priests and elders who hold counsel - on the Passover Day!  What for?  ‘To put Jesus to death’. (Matt 27:1-10)        

Yup, the sentence of death has been decided first, then false witness sought for a conviction and now let’s make it look nice’n legal, hey.

Meanwhile what’s happened to that trusted friend Judas?

Does he repent? 

Not really – he regrets it, from Greek: ‘metamellomai’...so hangs himself.

Those 30 pieces of silver paid by the priests for innocent blood – what happened to them?                 

Thrown down in God’s house then used to buy the potter’s field for burial of strangers – exactly as prophesied by Zechariah! (in the ‘scroll of Jeremiah’)...

 “they weighed for my price 30 pieces of silver...I took the 30 pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord”

The Messiah has been condemned to death by His own people and His blood money - at slave price - provides a resting place for Gentiles. Wow!

Where to now?  They hand Jesus over - bound - to the Gentiles to keep everything legal and proper of course!...NEXT