Matthew 26:15

Revised Standard Version

and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and said, “What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?” So they weighed out thirty pieces of silver for him.

King James Version (1611)
And said vnto them, What will ye giue me, and I will deliuer him vnto you? And they couenanted with him for thirtie pieces of siluer.

King James Version
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

English Standard Version
and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.

New American Standard Bible
and said, "What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?" And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

New Century Version
He said, "What will you pay me for giving Jesus to you?" And they gave him thirty silver coins.

Amplified Bible
and said, "What are you willing to give me if I hand Jesus over to you?" And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and said, "What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?" And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him.

Legacy Standard Bible
and said, "What are you willing to give me to deliver Him to you?" And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him.

Berean Standard Bible
and asked, "What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you?" And they set out for him thirty pieces of silver.

Contemporary English Version
and asked, "How much will you give me if I help you arrest Jesus?" They paid Judas thirty silver coins,

Complete Jewish Bible
and said, "What are you willing to give me if I turn Yeshua over to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to Y'hudah.

Darby Translation
and said, What are ye willing to give me, and *I* will deliver him up to you? And they appointed to him thirty pieces of silver.

Easy-to-Read Version
He said, "I will hand Jesus over to you. What will you pay me for doing this?" The priests gave him 30 silver coins.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And said, What will ye giue me, and I will deliuer him vnto you? and they appoynted vnto him thirtie pieces of siluer.

George Lamsa Translation
And he said to them, What are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they promised him thirty pieces of silver.

Good News Translation
and asked, "What will you give me if I betray Jesus to you?" They counted out thirty silver coins and gave them to him.

Lexham English Bible
and said, "What are you willing to give me if I in turn deliver him to you?" So they set out for him thirty silver coins.

Literal Translation
said, What will you give to me, and I will deliver Him up to you? "And they weighed to him thirty silver pieces." Zech. 11:12

American Standard Version
and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver.

Bible in Basic English
What will you give me, if I give him up to you? And the price was fixed at thirty bits of silver.

Hebrew Names Version
and said, "What are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

International Standard Version
and said, "What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?" They placed before him thirty pieces of silver,Zechariah 11:12; Matthew 27:3;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and said to then, What are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you ? But they settled to him thirty of silver.

Murdock Translation
and said to them: What will ye give me, if I will deliver him to you? And they promised him thirty pieces of silver.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And sayde [vnto them:] What wyll ye geue me, and I wyll delyuer hym vnto you? And they appoynted vnto hym thirtie peeces of syluer.

English Revised Version
and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver.

World English Bible
and said, "What are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you?

Weymouth's New Testament
and said, "What are you willing to give me if I betray him to you?" So they weighed out to him thirty shekels,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide to hem, What wolen ye yyue to me, and Y schal bitake hym to you? And thei ordeyneden to hym thretti pans of siluer.

Update Bible Version
and said, What are you willing to give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they weighed to him thirty pieces of silver.

Webster's Bible Translation
And said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.

New English Translation
and said, "What will you give me to betray him into your hands?" So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

New King James Version
and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.

New Living Translation
and asked, "How much will you pay me to betray Jesus to you?" And they gave him thirty pieces of silver.

New Life Bible
He said, "What will you pay me if I hand Jesus over to you?" They promised to pay him thirty pieces of silver.

New Revised Standard
and said, "What will you give me if I betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and said - What are ye willing to give unto me? and, I, unto you, will deliver him up. And they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to them: What will you give me, and I will deliver him unto you? But they appointed him thirty pieces of silver.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and sayd: what will ye geve me and I will deliver him vnto you? And they apoynted vnto him thirty peces of sylver.

Young's Literal Translation
`What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde: What wil ye geue me, and I shal delyuer him vnto you? And they offred hi thirtie syluer pens.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and said, what will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they promised him thirty pieces of silver.

Simplified Cowboy Version
and asked, "How much will you pay me to double-cross Jesus?" They handed him thirty pieces of silver.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests ¹⁵ and said, "What will you give me if I deliver him to you?" And they paid him thirty pieces of silver. ¹⁶ And from that moment he sought an opportunity to betray him.

Bible Verse Review
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What: Genesis 38:16, Judges 16:5, Judges 17:10, Judges 18:19, Judges 18:20, Isaiah 56:11, 1 Timothy 3:3, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, 2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:14, 2 Peter 2:15

thirty: Probably shekels or staters, as some read, which, reckoning the shekels at 3s., with Prideaux, would amount to about 4 10s., the price for the meanest slave! - See Exodus 21:32 Matthew 27:3-5, Genesis 37:26-28, Zechariah 11:12, Zechariah 11:13, Acts 1:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 25:34 - thus Esau Genesis 37:27 - sell him Genesis 37:28 - sold Leviticus 27:4 - thirty shekels Deuteronomy 27:25 - General Judges 16:18 - brought money 2 Samuel 15:31 - Ahithophel 2 Kings 5:25 - stood before Psalms 10:3 - whom Psalms 15:5 - nor taketh Isaiah 29:21 - and turn Isaiah 33:15 - shaketh Jeremiah 11:9 - General Hosea 6:8 - polluted with blood Micah 7:3 - the prince Matthew 4:9 - All Matthew 26:45 - the hour Matthew 27:9 - thirty Matthew 28:15 - they took Mark 14:11 - and promised Luke 22:5 - and covenanted

Cross-References

Genesis 21:25
When Abraham complained to Abim'elech about a well of water which Abim'elech's servants had seized,

Genesis 21:30
He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that you may be a witness for me that I dug this well."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And said [unto them],.... Though the words, "to them", are not in the original text, they are rightly supplied; as they are by the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions, and in Munster's Hebrew Gospel; and mean the chief priests to whom Judas went, and to whom he made the following proposal;

what will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? They did not ask him to do it, he first made the motion; a barbarous and shocking one! to deliver his Lord and Master, with whom he had familiarly conversed, and from whom he had received so many favours, into the hands of those that hated him; nor was he concerned what they would do to him, or what would become of him, when in their hands: all his view, and what he was intent upon, was, what they would give him for doing it. They did not tempt him, by first offering him so much money, if he would betray him; but he himself first moves it to them, and tempts them with it to offer him an handsome reward: and it is to be observed, that he does not mention the name of Jesus, either because they might be talking of him, when he came into their company; or else as suiting his language to theirs, who, when they spake of him, usually said, "he", or "that man", or "this fellow". And in the same rude way Judas now treats his master:

and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver; that is, thirty shekels of silver; for it is a rule with the Jews, that when mention is made in Scripture of pieces of silver, without expressing the species, shekels are meant: so Onkelos, and Jonathan ben Uzziel, in their Targums on Genesis 20:16, render pieces of silver, by shekels of silver; so pieces of gold signify shekels of gold: thus the 1700 pieces of gold in Judges 8:26, are, in the Septuagint, Arabic, and Vulgate Latin versions, called so many shekels of gold; and our version supplies the word "shekels" also, as it does in 2 Chronicles 9:15, and yet some learned men have asserted m, that there were no shekels of gold among the Jews, though express mention is made of them in 1 Chronicles 21:25. The value of a shekel of gold, according to Brerewood n, was, of our money, "fifteen shillings"; and some make it to come to a great deal more; to "one pound sixteen shillings and sixpence" sterling: had these thirty pieces been pieces, or shekels of gold, they would have amounted to a considerable sum of money; but they were pieces of silver, and not talents, or pounds, but shekels. The silver shekel had on one side stamped upon it the pot of manna, or, as others think, "a censer", or incense cup, with these words around it, in Samaritan letters, "shekel Israel", "the shekel of Israel"; and, on the other, "Aaron's rod" budding, with this inscription about it, "Jerusalem Hakedushah", "Jerusalem the holy" o. As for the weight and value of it, R. Gedaliah says p, we know by tradition that the holy shekel weighs 320 grains of barley of pure silver; and the same writer observes q, that the "selah", or holy shekel, is four "denarii", or pence; that is, Roman pence, each being of the value of seven pence halfpenny of our money: and to this agrees what Josephus r says, that a "shekel" is a coin of the Hebrews, which contains four Attic drachms, or drams; and an Attic dram is of the same value with a Roman penny: so that one of these shekels was worth about "half a crown"; and it usually weighed half an ounce, as not only some Jewish writers affirm, who profess to have seen them, and weighed them themselves, as Jarchi s, Gerundensis t, Abarbinel u, and Gedaliah ben Jechaiah w; but other writers also, as Masius x Arias Montanus y, Waserus z and Bishop Cumberland. Now thirty shekels of silver were the price of a servant, Exodus 21:32. So b Maimonides observes, that the

"atonement of "servants", whether great or small, whether male or female, the fixed sum in the law is "thirty shekels of good silver", whether "the servant" is worth an hundred pound, or whether he is not worth but a farthing,''

and which was in value of our money about "three pounds fifteen shillings". This was the "goodly price", which Christ, who appeared in the form of a servant, was prized at, according to the prophecy in Zechariah 11:12, and which the high priests thought a very sufficient one; and the wretch Judas, as covetous as he was, was contented with.

m Waseras de numis Heb. l. 2. c. 3. n De numis Jud. c. 3. o Waser ib. & Ar. Montan. Ephron. sive de Siclo in Jud. Antiq. p. 126. Brerewood de ponder. & pret. vet. num. c. 1. p Shaishelet Hakabala, fol. q Ib. r Antiq. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 2. s Perush in Exod. xxi. 32. t Ad fin. Expos. in Pentateuch. u Comment. in 1 Reg. 7. fol. 221. 2. w Shalshelet Hahohala, fol. 72. 2. x In Joshua, 7. 21. p. 135. y De Siclo, ut supra. (in Jud. Antiq. p. 126) z De numis Heb. l. 2. c. 3. b Hilch. Niske Mammon. c. 11. sect. 1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 26:15. Thirty pieces of silver. — τριακοντα αργυρια, thirty silverlings; but στατηρας, staters, is the reading of the Codex Bezae, three copies of the Itala, Eusebius, and Origen sometimes; and στατηρας αργυριου, silver staters, is the reading of the famous Basil MS. No. 1, in Griesbach, and one copy of the Itala.

A stater was the same as the shekel, and worth about 3s. English money, according to Dean Prideaux: a goodly price for the Saviour of the world! Thirty staters, about 4l. 10s. the common price for the meanest slave! See Exodus 21:32. The rabbins say, thirty selain of pure silver was the standard price for a slave, whether good or bad, male or female. See tract Erachin, fol. 14, and Shekalim, cap. 1. Each selaa weighed 384 barley-corns; the same number was contained in a shekel; and therefore the shekel and the selaa were the same. Genesis 20:16, and Exodus 38:24.