Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 26:14-16
by: Tim Bond.
Occasionally, on the news, we hear what a spy sold out his country’s secrets for. According to multiple computer sources, the 30 pieces of silver for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus paid for about 90 New Testament days of labor. By 2018 US minimum wage standard of $10.35 per hour, that is roughly $7,500.00—a pretty low price for the life of one he supposedly loved. In Matthew 27:3-8, we learn that after Judas threw the money down in the temple, the chief priests would not put “blood money” back into the treasury, so they used it to purchase a potter’s field to bury strangers in. For how much have you sold out your Savior?