'Pieces Of Silver' in the Bible
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.
And they bargained with him for thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.
So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.
Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
and, being gathered together with the Elders and taking counsel, sufficient pieces of silver, gave they unto the soldiers, -
And, they, taking the pieces of silver, did as they were instructed. And this account was spread abroad among the Jews -- until this veryday.
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
And not a few of them that practised magical arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.