Alternatively, they could have been Ptolemaic tetradrachms (13.5 ± 1 g of 25% silver). There are 31.1035 grams per troy ounce. At spot valuation of $28/ozt in 2021, 30 "pieces of silver" would be worth approximately $91 to $441 in present-day value (USD) depending on which coin was used.
In the Hebrew culture, thirty pieces of silver was not a lot of money. In fact, it was the exact price paid to the master of a slave if and when his slave was gored by an ox (Exodus 21:32).
According to the Gospel of John, Judas Iscariot received 30 silver coins, or in today's money, around $340, to betray Jesus and put him in the hands of Caiaphas.
Judas then went on his own to the priests of the Temple, the religious authorities at the time, and offered to betray Jesus in exchange for money—30 pieces of silver, as specified in the Gospel of Matthew.
At the time, Palestine did not produce silver shekels, but instead, used the regional silver coins of Tyre. However, thirty silver coins similar to the ones received by Judas for betraying Jesus, are conserved at the AUB Archaeological Museum.
All of us have a spiritual debt we cannot pay, but the Bible tells us God has paid our debt! He canceled the payment due for our sins and instead accepted the payment His Son Jesus provided when He died on the cross (Colossians 2:14). God grants this freedom to all who choose to follow Jesus (Colossians 2:13).
Jesus did not pay for our sins only in part: he paid for all our sins. “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36, NIV). He has made a way for us to be with God, defeating death and hell.
No, Judas did not go to heaven. And no, Judas' betrayal didn't seal his eternal fate. Let me explain: Judas didn't go to heaven because, though he was filled with remorse, he didn't repent and ask for God's forgiveness. And Judas didn't actually believe in Jesus; he just had proximity to Jesus.
Three of the gospels say that Judas went of his own accord to the authorities and asked them to pay him for betraying Jesus: Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said, 'What will you give me if I betray him to you?' They paid him thirty pieces of silver.
Some scholars have observed that one silver coin was a working man's wage. So in modern terms, a worker getting $15 an hour in an eight-hour day would take would take home $120. Thirty days' wages would be $3,600. It gets more complicated still when we recall that not all coins of the same weight were of equal value.
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Golgotha, (from Latin calva: “bald head” or “skull”), skull-shaped hill in ancient Jerusalem, the site of Jesus' Crucifixion.
Akeldama (Aramaic: חקל דמא or 𐡇𐡒𐡋 𐡃𐡌𐡀 Ḥaqel D'ma, "field of blood"; Hebrew: חקל דמא; Arabic: حقل الدم, Ḥaqel Ad-dam) is the Aramaic name for a place in Jerusalem associated with Judas Iscariot, one of the original twelve apostles of Jesus.
At the cross, God poured out His judgment on His Son, satisfying His wrath and making it possible for Him to forgive us. That's why Jesus shed His blood for your sins, my sins, and the sins of the whole world. At what moment during the crucifixion ordeal did God pour out His judgment on His precious Son?
God has pronounced that the penalty of sin is spiritual death and separation from God in a place of judgment called hell: “For the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). Jesus clearly taught that sinners were condemned in sin and would perish and go to hell if they didn't believe in Him as their Savior (John 3:16-18).
Scriptural evidence suggests that Jesus was neither strictly poor nor rich. Rather, He chose to embrace poverty to fully connect with our human experience and serve humanity effectively. This choice reflects a kind of inherent wealth that enriches others.
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Luke 3:23 shows us that Jesus was about thirty when he started ministry (26-30 AD) and was in ministry for three years – placing Jesus' death at 29-33 AD. Other important milestones in Jesus' life would have been circumcision, Temple redemption, Bar-Mitzvah, and reaching majority age (20 years old).
A central pillar of the Christian faith is that Jesus “paid” for all of our sins by sacrificing his life, zeroing out a debt we owed but could never repay. The Bible is drenched with a spirit of compassion and sympathy for the poor — and rails against the rich people who abuse them.
Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin in the Garden of Gethsemane, in exchange for 30 pieces of silver, by kissing him on the cheek and addressing him as "master" to reveal his identity in the darkness to the crowd who had come to arrest him.
Matthew 18:27, 30, 32, 34 - Forgive because your debts have been forgiven. Luke 7:42-43 - He who is forgiven much (debt) loves much; he who is forgiven little (debt) loves little. Romans 4:4 - Wages, like a debt owed, must be paid. Colossians 2:14 Jesus canceled the record of debt we owed by nailing it to the cross.