I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Zechariah 11-14

I am really struggling with today’s passage, nothing in it seems to fit into anything meaningful for me today.  So, I will spend a little time looking at Zechariah’s reference to receiving a wage of 30 pieces of silver.  In the Gospel of Matthew, Matthew connects this passage to the price paid Judas to betray Jesus.  The significance in today’s passage (and to some degree in Matthew) of the 30 pieces of silver is that in Exodus 21:32 that is the price that someone must pay if their animal kills someone else’s slave.  So, Zechariah says that he was worth no more than a slave to the people to whom he was sent to prophecy.  By extension, Matthew said that Jesus was valued at no more than a slave by those who paid Judas to betray Him.  By valuing Zechariah (and Jesus) at no more than a slave, those who did so said that he was disposable.  Do we value the people around us?  Or are they merely disposable?