Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and I need you to

picture somebody you love but not just love somebody you also admire and

look up to someone who's invested in your life maybe a mentor maybe it's a

parent but maybe that one person who isn't a parent who has most taken you

under their wing and taught you things about life and nurtured you and been there for you when things were difficult and

dispensed wisdom to you. Are you picturing that person?

Awesome. Now I want you to picture how much money you would need to have them killed.

Let's give you a second to run that through.

Right, you probably came up with no amount of money would work for me to have them killed because of how much I love them.

You can't give me enough money to have people I love killed.

I'm not, what kind of sick psychopath are you?

And that's hurtful, but fair question. Well in this episode of your

beloved 10-minute Bible hour podcast we're gonna try to figure out exactly what

that number was for Judas Iscariot.

So here's what we got.

Matthew 26 gives us some starting point figures here on what Judas was going to need to have Jesus, his mentor, somebody supposedly loved,

someone who would invest him, how much it was going to cost to have him killed.

We got Matthew 26, starting in verse 14, then one of the 12, the one called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief

priests and asked, what are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?

So they counted out for him 30 silver coins. From then on Judas

watched for an opportunity to hand him over. That's not much of a negotiation.

Seems like Judas walked in ready to pull the trigger on the deal and there wasn't really any back and

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