What did Judas pay?
Silversmith |
Coin of small dignity |
כסף cachef - silver, money; Desire.
694 αργυριον - is smart. From silver; Silver coin, money. |
Ag |
13 times cheaper than gold |
In Hebrew when they say silver, they say money, and when they say money, they say silver, it's one word. Like in Greek and Russian, remember the word avarice.
Mt 28:12 ... MONEY was given enough to the soldiers.
In the original, there are a lot of silversmiths, that is, for this lie the priests paid more to the soldiers than to Judas. DIESHEVO SAME SELLED JESUS!
ABOUT WHAT SILVER COINS ARE SPEECH?
Act 19:19 ... and it turned out to be 50,000 drachmas.
The word drachma is written in italics, which means that in the original it is not. In the original it is written silver. Why is the author so concrete?
Judgment 9:4 And they gave him 70 shekels of silver ...
The word shekels is written in italics, which means that in the original it does not exist. Why did the author in this case prefer the sikl (shekel)?
If we read a Russian novel and there it says he gave the top ten, then we know that this is not 10 dollars, not 10 kopecks, but 10 rubles. If this is an American novel, then $10, if French, then francs, etc.
WHAT CURRENCY WAS GOVERNED IN ISRAEL?
Jesus pays tribute to the temple to the collectors of didrahm (
Mt 17:24-27), not shekels (although the didrahm is equal to the shekel, the shekel was the pay).
Mt 22:19 Show me the coin to which you are paid. They brought him a denarius.
He did not say which coin it was, everyone knew that it was a denarius. Jesus told parables, mostly using denarius as an example, only once a drachma: a parable of 10 drachmas or a lost drachma (
Lk 15:8-10). 2 times we meet the drachma, in all other cases He speaks of denarii, but the shekel is not mentioned in the New Testament at all.
OK,
These were rather denarii or drachmas. And since they are of equal value, we know that Judas received a salary in 30 working days. One person could live on this for about 1 year.
Still there is an opinion that Judas was paid by shekels. It was a temple and they could well pay with shekels. Because, as in Hebrew, money and silver are one word. In this case, it was paid twice as much. But this is not 10-100 times. So we know the approximate amount.
