Luke 22:5

they were glad This spontaneous offer and that too from one of Christ's immediate followers seemed to solve all their difficulties.

covenanted Or, -agreed;" in St Mark, - promised"In Matthew 26:15 it is said that they -paid" or -weighed" him the money, with a reference to Zechariah 11:12-13 (LXX.). This was perhaps done at a second meeting when the actual plan was ripened.

to give him money The proposal came from the wretched man himself (Matthew 26:15). The paltry sum given (which is mentioned by St Matthew only)-30 shekels, about £3.1 6s.,the price given for the meanest slave shews that this sum was either regarded as earnest money,or more probably that the Priests felt themselves quite able to carry out their plot, though less conveniently, without any aid from Judas. On one side of these shekels would be stamped the olive-branch, the emblem of peace; on the obverse the censer, the type of prayer, with the inscription, "Jerusalem the Holy"!