Matthew chapter 26 verse 14 - 16 records the event where Judas Iscariot decided that he could benefit the most by betraying Jesus into the hands of the religious leaders.
He asked them what price they would pay to get Jesus and they agreed on thirty pieces of silver.
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests 15 and said, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. 16 So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him.
The book of Zechariah chapter 11 verses 12 - 13 aludes to this event thusly;
12 I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver.
13 And the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the Lord.
This prophecy appears to capture the words fo Jesus speaking of the ˋhandsomeˋ price of thirty pieces of silver that they paid to get Jesus but in a cryptic way, revealing that the money was paid out and then returned and that the money was laundered by the aquisition of a potterˋs field.
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