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Judas betrayed Jesus for the price of a slave

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Exodus 21:

32 If the ox gores a slave, male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
A slave was worth 30 shekels of silver.

Matthew 26:

14 Then one of the twelve, whose name was Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?” And they paid him thirty pieces of silver.
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges:

Thirty shekels was the price of a slave (Exodus 21:32); a fact which gives force to our Lord’s words, Matthew 20:28, “The Son of man came … to minister (to be a slave), and to give his life a ransom for many.”
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Thirty pieces of silver - Mark and Luke do not mention the sum. They say that they promised him "money" - in the original, "silver." In Matthew, in the original, it is thirty "silvers, or silverlings." This was the price "of a slave" (see Exodus 21:32)
Pulpit Commentary:

This was the legal price of a slave gored by an ox (Exodus 21:32), and must have been considered by the traitor but a poor reward for his crime. He found the rulers as covetous as himself, and disposed to treat both him and his Master with the utmost contempt. Christ had taken upon him the form of a bondservant, and was here reckoned as such. The transaction had been typically shadowed forth when another Judas sold his brother Joseph for twenty pieces of silver (Genesis 37:27, 28);
Why was Judas equated with an "Ox" by this very passage?

I don't think Judas = ox here. That would be straining the symbolism.
 

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Who OWNS the Ox? Satan
Who is the Ox? Judas
Who is the Slave? Jesus (Jesus was not "Subordinated", but instead Willingly CONSTRAINED BY LOVE)
Who is the Master of the Slave who was gored? God

Who received the money in Exodus 21:32?

The Master or God as you put it.

Who received the money in Matt 26:14?

Judas.

Are you saying that Judas = God?
 
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Who received the money in Exodus 21:32?

The Master or God as you put it.

Who received the money in Matt 26:14?

Judas.

Are you saying that Judas = God?
No. The idea is that someone's Ox gores someone else's Slave. There are two master's inferred by the passage.

The Slave's Master
The Ox's Master

The master of the Ox has to be a different master then the master of the Slave, elsewise, the Exchange of money would be silly.

This is to say, if a farmer has an ox and that ox gores one of his farmhands he doesn't pay himself for the loss of his own farm hand.

The Money went to the Sanhedrin Gang, yet they couldn't take "blood money" and "The Potters Field" was purchased. Because the Sanhedrin Gang were still under God at the time (Jesus hadn't died and in Spirit Form, torn the Temple curtain yet), it showed the symbiology of Satan being part of the Old Covenant as (Death). This isn't to say that the Sanhedrin Gang were not unknowingly serving the Devil, because they were. It simply shows that Satan was the fly in the ointment of the Old Covenant.

This is the exact reason for the Azazael goat on the day of atonement ritual.

This is a prime example of "No man can serve two masters". Though the Sanhedrin Thought they were serving God, they were actually serving Mammon (Satan).

Which brings it back to the odd question. Who killed Judas? Himself or Satan? Did Satan feel "guilt" when Jesus died, or fear, because he realized that Jesus was innocent and he had outright killed God?

In truth, It's just an interesting thing to ponder. Why did Judas feel convicted enough to end his life? It's very interesting and thought provoking.
 
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There are two master's inferred by the passage.

The Slave's Master
The Ox's Master
The verse distinguished between the owner and the master. I prefer to stick closely to the wording of the Scripture.
 
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The verse distinguished between the owner and the master. I prefer to stick closely to the wording of the Scripture.
I respect this. Thank you for entertaining the discussion on any level. It helped me think about it on a deeper level.
 
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