Luke 22:5
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They were delighted and agreed to give him money.
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money--"thirty pieces of silver" (Mat 26:15); thirty shekels, the fine payable for man- or maid-servant accidentally killed (Exo 21:32), and equal to between four and five pounds of our money--"a goodly price that I was priced at of them" (Zac 11:13). (See on Joh 19:16.)
Open source ↗All the evangelists, whatever they omit, give us a particular account of the death and resurrection of Christ, because he died for our sins and rose for our justification, this evangelist as fully as any, and with many circumstances and passages added which we had not before. In this chapter we have, I. The plot to take Jesus, and Judas's coming into it (Luk 22:1-6). II. Christ's eating the passover with his disciples (Luk 22:7-18). III. The instituting of the Lord's supper (Luk 22:19, Luk 22:20). IV. Christ's discourse with his disciples after supper, upon several heads (v. 21-38). V. His agony in the garden (Luk 22:39-46). VI. The apprehending of him, by the assistance of Judas (Luk 22:47-53). VII. Peter's denying him (Luk 22:54-62). VIII. The indignities done to Christ by those that had him in custody, and his trial and condemnation in the ecclesiastical court (Luk 22:63-71).
Open source ↗22:5 Judas wanted the money. John tells us that he was a thief who stole from the disciples’ common fund (John 12:6).
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(Now with the reward for his wickedness Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong and burst open in the middle, and all his intestines spilled out.
In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved the wages of wickedness.
But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!
Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.