Hey everybody it's Matt. It's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and we are in the middle of trying to figure out exactly what Judas is scary its number is for how much he'd have to get paid to sell out his beloved friend and mentor to death.

And last time around we were talking about which particular currency probably

would have been used so that we can get closer to knowing exactly what the

number is in modern monetary figures to sell out your best friend and mentor.

So we're in Matthew chapter 26 working on this verse 14 it says 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,

but it doesn't say what kind of silver coins.

So what we know is that pretty much with certainty we're either talking about a Roman denarious,

the plural of which is denary.

I know this, this is the thing that I do for a living. I went

back and listen to the episode from last time around and oh my goodness I used the singular

and the plural interchangeably a lot and all of you were so polite as not to email me or correct me at all

That was really really really nice of you and I want you to know that my failure to get that right like it definitely affected my tennis

game over the weekend I couldn't focus I had a tough time being a parent like I

just went out in the backyard and sat on the kid's swing set and looked off into space and wondered

what I'm doing with my life. So it feels really good to get back here and to

straighten that out. So the Danarius is the base unit of Roman currency and it represents a day's wage for most of the history of the Roman Republican Roman Empire.

But even though it represents a day's wage, the actual value of

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