Zechariah was the next to last Prophet in the old Covenant and he was instructed by God to live out a type of the Messiah to come, and as all the prophets, his time was over 400 years before the birth of Jesus. God told him to take two staffs, call one staff, union and the other staff grace and hire himself out as a shepherd. Zechariah did as he was instructed and looked after the emplotyers sheep for a time, then God told him to go to these people and ask for his wages, whatever they valued his work at. The men gave him 30 pieces of Silver for his time working for them. God then told him to take this great value (tongue in cheek) they thought his work was worth and throw the silver on the Temple floor. Then he was instructed to go back to those people and break the staff called union in front of them and declare the union is no more (Probably the union between Israel and Juduh), then break the staff called grace and tell them I no longer care if you live or die. The live or die part in the next blog
When Judas was betraying Jeus he received 30 pieces of silever for the betrayal, he realized what he had done, went back to the high Preist ( Caiphas) and tried to renege on the deal but Caiphas would not , so Judas threw the silver on the Temple floor. Caiphas, being the hypocrite that he was said we can’t use this in the Temple, let’s buy a field with it to use as a grave yard for foreigners that are poor and die here. This field has been found on the outskirts of the Old Jerusalem and ossuaries have been found that have written on the side “son of Simon the Cyrene” remember him he was inlisted to carry the cross beam for Jesus crucifiction. There are no graves in theis field predating the ist Century Ad and all the graves are foreigners in Israel, 400 yeaqrs before Jesus birth, Zechariah was used by God to tell exactly what would happen to Jesus, Wow how can anyone not beleive in the death, life, works and resurrection Of the Messiah and he holds out his hand with forgiveness to all that will come to him, unlimited love and Grace.