This fulfilled the prophecy of Jeremiah that says, “They took the thirty pieces of silver— the price at which he was valued by the people of Israel,
But if the ox gores a slave, either male or female, the animal’s owner must pay the slave’s owner thirty silver coins, and the ox must be stoned.
These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests from the town of Anathoth in the land of Benjamin.
All of this occurred to fulfill the Lord’s message through his prophet:
Herod’s brutal action fulfilled what God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:
and asked, “How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?” And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.