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might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion,
Behold, thy king cometh, &100:
(12) That the Messiah should be poor and despised,
and be betrayed by one of His Own disciples for thirty pieces of silver
(at that time the ordinary price of the vilest slave);
with which the potter's field should be purchased.
Prophecy.--Isa. 53: 3. There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised
and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were
our faces from Him: He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Psa. 41: 9 and
Psa. 55: 12-14. Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, who did eat of my
bread, hath lift up his heel against me. Zech. 11: 12, 13. So they weighed for my price
thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price
that I was prized at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the
potter in the house of the Lord.
Fulfilment.--Luke 9: 58. The Son of man hath not where to lay His head.
II Cor. 8: 9. For your sakes He became poor.
John 11: 35. JESUS WEPT.
Luke 22: 3, 4. Then Satan entered into Judas, being one of the twelve, and he went
his way and communed with the chief priests how he might betray Him unto them.
Matt. 26: 14. And Judas went unto the chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye
give me, and I will deliver Him unto you? and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces
of silver. Matt. 27: 3-8. Then Judas, who had betrayed Him, brought again the thirty
pieces silver, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood; and he cast
down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And
the chief priests took the silver, and they said, It is not lawful to put it into the treasury,
because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the
potter's field, to bury strangers in.
(13) That the Messiah should suffer pain and death
for the sins of the world.
Prophecy.--Psa. 22: 16, 17. For dogs (that is, the heathens, whom the Jews called
dogs), have compassed Me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me; they pierced
my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones; they look and stare upon Me. Isa. 50: 6. I
gave My back to the smiters and My cheek to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not
My face from shame and spitting. Isa. 53: 5, 8. He was wounded for our transgressions;
He was bruised for our iniquities; by His stripes we are healed. He was cut off out of the
land of the living: for the transgression of My people was He stricken. Isa. 53: 12. And
He bare the sin of many.
Fulfilment.--John 19: 1, 2. Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And the
soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and they smote Him with the palms of their hands.
Matt. 27: 30; Mark 15: 19. And they did spit upon Him and smote Him on the head.
Mark 15: 25. And they crucified Him. I Pet. 2: 23, 24. Who, when He was reviled,