Then what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: “They took the thirty silver coins, the amount the people of Israel had agreed to pay for him,
Now all this happened in order to make come true what the Lord had said through the prophet,
If the bull kills a male or female slave, its owner shall pay the owner of the slave thirty pieces of silver, and the bull shall be stoned to death.
and asked, “What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?” They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to him.
This book is the account of what was said by Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests of the town of Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
In this way what the prophet Jeremiah had said came true: