The world needs truth, mercy and hope. We hear "Black lives matter", but in truth all lives matter to God and without him nothing matters. People need Jesus and the truth of God. Let us look at some hidden truths starting in the old testament.
Zec 11:12 And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
Zec 11:13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
The old testament spoke prophecies that were revealed in the new testament.
Mat 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Mat 27:4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
Mat 27:5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Mat 27:6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
Mat 27:7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
Mat 27:8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
The price paid for the life of Jesus was thirty pieces of silver, the lowest price paid for a slave. The Jewish leaders were careful to keep the law, while at the same time violating the spirit of the law. They were guilty of conspiring to kill Jesus, they used Judas to get to him. They had no mercy for a repentant Judas. The silver was unclean because it was blood money. The payers of the blood money were truly the unclean things in the house of the LORD.
Jesus at an earlier time warned the Jewish leaders saying:
Mat 23:23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
It seems to me that the punishment of the chief priests will be greater than for Judas. Judas tried to repent and they had no mercy for him. The priests had a higher position and were to be the spokesmen for the word of God. They missed the mark. But before blaming these key players, it was our sins that brought Jesus to earth, to willingly die to pay the price for them. It was all our sins that he came to die for. Knowing this and receiving him we are given the hope of eternal life with the Lord and the redeemed and that is the truth.
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