DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
Thirty pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15). Matthew alone gives the figure. Later, when the money buys the potter's field, he introduces the fulfillment quotation as Jeremiah's (Matthew 27:9-10) — though the wording strongly recalls Zechariah 11:12-13, perhaps alongside Jeremiah 19 and 32. It's one of the most discussed citation problems in the New Testament.
Why it’s interesting
Only Matthew names the price, and only Matthew frames it as prophecy — under the wrong prophet's name, which readers have puzzled over ever since. Mark and Luke mention money but never count it.
Scholarly consensus
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