Then the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the lordly price at which I was priced by them. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the house of the LORD, to the potter.
Chapter 11 Lecture One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Zechariah 11:1-3 1. Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars. 1. Aperi, Libane, protas tuas, et vorabit ignis cedros tuas: 2. Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down. 2.
Commenting on Zechariah 11:1-17
The prophet here is made a type of Christ, as the prophet Isaiah sometimes was; and the scope of these verses is to show that for judgment Christ came into this world (Joh 9:39), for judgment to the Jewish church and nation, which were, about the time of his coming, wretchedly corrupted and degenerated by the worldliness and hypocrisy of their rulers.
Commenting on Zechariah 11:4-14
And the Lord said unto me,.... The Prophet Zechariah, in a visionary way representing the sanhedrim of the Jews, the chief priests, scribes, and elders: Cast it unto the potter; for the purchase of his field, in order to make a burying ground of it for strangers: a goodly price that I was prised at of them; this is sarcastically said; meaning that it was...