Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;
Ver. 9. Then was fulfilled] Those blind Pharisees not only observed not the sayings of the prophets which they daily read, but unwittingly also fulfilled them.
By Jeremiah the prophet] Indeed by Zechariah the prophet; but either Jeremiah had two diffferent names (as was ordinary among that people), or else what Jeremiah had preached Zechariah long after committed to writing, as did likewise Obadiah, &c.
The price of him that was valued] A goodly price set there upon God, for all his pastoral pains with that perverse people; and hereupon Christ (who is hereby proven to be God), for all his inestimable worth, and incomparable love to lost mankind. If we be at any time undervalued, as we are sure to be (for the world knows us not, 1Jn 3:2), what so great a matter is it? Was not the Lord Christ infinitely underrated?