KING
and POTTER’S FIELD
Eleventh
of twelve in Lamb of God Parallel Bible Series
Zechariah
9:9, 11:12-13, Matthew 27:6-10, 37
Zechariah
9:9: “Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of
Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and
having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foul of a
donkey.”
Zechariah
11:12-13: “‘I told them, ‘If you think
it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.’
So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.
And the Lord said to me, ‘Throw it to the potter’—the handsome price at
which they priced me!’”
Matthew
27:6-10: “The chief priests picked up
the coins [thirty pieces of silver] and said, ‘It is against the law to put
this into the treasury because it’s blood money.’ So they decided to use the money to buy the
potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.”
Matthew
27:37: “Above His head they placed the written charge against Him: ‘This is
Jesus, the King of the Jews.’”
Judas led them to Jesus for thirty
pieces of silver. God is valued at
thirty pieces of silver? No one wants “blood
money” after the deed is done. Neither the
one trading for cash nor the ones offering cash wants any part of that cash anymore. Blood money bought a potter’s field in both
the Old and New Testaments.
The potter’s field is a cemetery for
foreigners, the poor or people no one claims.
It’s no man’s land.
Judas was in charge of the disciples’ money
(John 12:6). But he must have zoned out
during Jesus’ preaching the three years he was included as His disciple. He seized the opportunity to turn Jesus in for
a quick profit. No harm done, he probably figured. After all, Jesus wasn’t hiding. He could have been arrested anytime.
The big deal of his sin dawned on
Judas watching Jesus being arrested. He
had just kissed Jesus, and heard Jesus call him “friend”. (Matthew 26:49-50). What
did I just do? Judas might have
thought. The terror of Divine wrath
enveloped Judas. Overcome by despair,
Judas cast the thirty coins back to the chief priests (Matthew 27:4-5).
Only, they didn’t want the money now.
Take
Home Nugget
Judas confessed his sin to the chief
priests, but not to God. Judas blew it. God would have forgiven even this sin—if only
Judas would have confessed it before Him.
!!!
Judas could easily have been buried
in the same potter’s field his thirty pieces of silver bought, after he hanged
himself (Matthew 27:5). Certainly, no
one claimed him. (See lesson linked
below for a different end for Judas.)
God not be mocked. Let us NEVER try to fool God of our true
intentions!
J.D.
Griffith
A
personal, private lesson experience with our staff
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment