Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them--that is, to make his proposals, and to bargain with them, as appears from. Matthew's fuller statement (Matthew 26:14-15) which says, he "went unto the chief priests, and said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver Him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver." The thirty pieces of silver were thirty shekels, the fine paid for man- or maid-servant accidentally killed (Exodus 21:32), and equal to between four and five pounds sterling--"a goodly price that I was prized at of them!" (Zechariah 11:13).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Mark 14:1
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