When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
s9 , 10. Then was fulfilled, &c. See on Zechariah 11:12-13.
The price of Him that was valued; Gr. τὴν τιμὴν του̃ τετιμημÎνου. Christ, who is beyond all price (Theophyl.), Whom the Chief Priests bought of the sons of Israel, of Judas, i.e, who was one of them. (So Titelman and Barradeus.) This is stated to add to the ignominy of the transaction, viz, that He was sold not by a Gentile, but by an Israelite, and one, too, who was called after the Patriarch"s eldest son. The plural is here put for the singular. Theophylact explains it otherwise, that Christ was valued, or bought, by the Chief Priests for the thirty pieces. Euthymius and others, that this price was put on Christ by those who were of the sons of Israel, i.e, Israelites.
The Syriac version has the first person, agreeing with Zechariah , "And I took," &c. ( Zechariah 11:13).
As the Lord appointed me. These words can be taken: 1. As the words of Christ speaking by the Prophet, and signifying that God would suffer nothing which concerned Him to come to nought, so that even the field purchased with the price of His Blood should not be unoccupied, but serve for the burial of strangers2. As the words of the Prophet, "God ordained that I should by my own Acts , as well as by my word, prophesy and foretell this, and even the goodly price," as he says in irony, "at which Christ should be valued."
