Zechariah 11:13 - Price Given for Potter's Field.

 The PDF that I acquired this list from has the title:

 Old Testament Messianic Prophecies Literally Fulfilled by Jesus of Nazareth

Other web sites, also claim that these were prophecies that Jesus personally fulfilled.

So, what’s the deal with this one?

In Matthew 27:7, a couple of priests find the money that Judas has tossed into the Temple, wanting nothing to do with it. They then make the odd claim that, because it was blood money, it couldn’t be used by the Temple anymore, so the bought the field from the potter so that Gentiles can have a place to be buried.

And even though nobody in the story says that they were fulfilling a prophecy, there is a claim by many that this fulfils the prophecy in Zechariah 11:13.

Even though there are no priest mentioned, and there is no potter’s field purchased with the money.

Oh, and Jesus had nothing to do with this anyhow.

Rather than going into the details of this difficult verse which has never been accurately translated as far as I can tell, the fact is, for Jesus to “fulfil” this non-prophetic verse, he would have had to have been commanded by YHVH to take the money himself and toss it at the yotzer (which is usually translated as “potter”, but has other meanings, such as “the creator”, being a bit of wordplay by the Hebrew author.)

So, no. Jesus didn’t fulfil Zechariah 11:13 because he wasn’t given the 30 silvers (as the text calls it) by YHVH, nor did he take it to the Temple and toss it at the “yotzer” (The LXX translates that to be a smelting forge), and as for buying a field, that’s not in Zechariah either, but if it were, Jesus didn’t buy that either.

So, this is a failed attempt to create a fulfilled prophecy where there was no prophecy, and Jesus didn’t do it anyway, so what’s the point?

So, Jesus failed again.

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