{"id":6191,"date":"2015-09-02T00:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6191"},"modified":"2015-09-02T00:04:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T00:04:23","slug":"20-pieces-of-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6191\/20-pieces-of-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Pieces of Silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The kids ask me how much the 20 pieces of silver were worth<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> That Joseph&#8217;s brothers were paid for selling him. I can&#8217;t find that information on the Internet. Do you know or have any idea where to look?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Te<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">There is no consensus, and a lot of different guesses, on what the 20 pieces of silver would be worth today. The same, by the way, can be said for the 30 pieces of silver that Judas received four betraying Jesus, and other weights and measurements of the Bible. Here is what one website said about the the 20 pieces of silver that Joseph was sold for:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The denomination of the silver coins was called shekels. Coins containing that amount of silver (about the size of an American silver dollar) would be worth about $10 today. Thus the 20 pieces would be worth about $200 today, as bullion silver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">However, another website makes this honest confession:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">A shekel of silver is the amount of silver which weighs a shekel. We don\u2019t know exactly how much that was (and it may have been different at different times), but most scholars place it at around 10.5 grams\u2013 roughly the weight of two US quarters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>So, to briefly answer your question: Nobody really knows.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kids ask me how much the 20 pieces of silver were worth That Joseph&#8217;s brothers were paid for selling him. I can&#8217;t find that information on the Internet. Do you know or have any idea where to look? Te ========== There is no consensus, and a lot of different guesses, on what the 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}