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bane1
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I was reading Matthew 27, and it mentions in verses 9-10, a prophecy from Jeremiah that Judas supposedly fulfilled. However, this prophecy does not seem to exist. Can someone help me find where this prophecy is?
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rwoehmke
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It is in Zechariah 11:12-13 and not Jeremiah.
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bane1
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Are you sure? Even putting aside Matthew’s error in saying Jeremiah rather than Zechariah, the verses you quoted to me are very different from the prophecy mentioned in Matthew 27:9-10. The only thing the two passages have in common is that someone receives 30 pieces of silver, other than that there are no similarities. In the passage in Zechariah, the person receives the money for doing a good work, and then deposits it in the treasury, whereas in Matthew, Judas receives the money for doing an evil work, and the elders refuse to deposit it in the treasury, which is why they buy a field with it. It seems the only thing these passages do have in common are that someone receives 30 pieces of silver. The whole rest of the passages don’t match up, however. Are you sure that Zechariah 11:12-13 is the prophecy that Matthew is referring to?It is in Zechariah 11:12-13 and not Jeremiah.
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jean8
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rwoe,It is in Zechariah 11:12-13 and not Jeremiah.
Your correct. It can also be found in Jer.18:1-4.19:2,11 ,32:6-9
God bless,
jean
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Nita
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Here is the footnote on the verse in the Haydock Bible ( haydock1859.tripod.com/id45.html ).
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Ver. 9. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias. Jeremias is now in all Latin copies, and the general reading of the Greek; whereas the passage is found in Zacharias xi. 12. Some judge it to have been in some writing of Jeremias, now lost; as St. Jerome says he found it in a writing of Jeremias, which was not canonical. Others conjecture, that Zacharias had also the name of Jeremias. Others, that St. Matthew neither put Jeremias nor Zacharias, but only of the prophet: and that the name of Jeremias had crept into the text. Jeremias is not in the Syrica[Syriac?]; and St. Augustine says it was not in divers copies. — And they took the thirty pieces of silver; each of which was called an argenteus. The evangelist cites not the words, but the sense of the prophet, who was ordered to cast the pieces into the house of the Lord, and to cast them to the potter:[2] which became true by the fact of Judas, who cast them into the temple: and with them was purchased the potter’s field. The price of him that was prized. In the prophet we read, the handsome price, spoken ironically, as the Lord did appoint me; i.e. as he had decreed. (Witham)
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Ver. 9. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias. Jeremias is now in all Latin copies, and the general reading of the Greek; whereas the passage is found in Zacharias xi. 12. Some judge it to have been in some writing of Jeremias, now lost; as St. Jerome says he found it in a writing of Jeremias, which was not canonical. Others conjecture, that Zacharias had also the name of Jeremias. Others, that St. Matthew neither put Jeremias nor Zacharias, but only of the prophet: and that the name of Jeremias had crept into the text. Jeremias is not in the Syrica[Syriac?]; and St. Augustine says it was not in divers copies. — And they took the thirty pieces of silver; each of which was called an argenteus. The evangelist cites not the words, but the sense of the prophet, who was ordered to cast the pieces into the house of the Lord, and to cast them to the potter:[2] which became true by the fact of Judas, who cast them into the temple: and with them was purchased the potter’s field. The price of him that was prized. In the prophet we read, the handsome price, spoken ironically, as the Lord did appoint me; i.e. as he had decreed. (Witham)
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