And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them - that is, to make his proposals, and to bargain with them, as appears from Matthew's fuller statement (Mark 26), which says, he "went unto the chief priests, and said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver Him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver" (Mark 14:15). The thirty pieces of silver were thirty shekels, the fine paid for man or maid-servant accidentally killed (Exodus 21:32), and equal to between four and five pounds sterling - "a goodly price that I was prized at of them"! (Zechariah 11:13).