Zechariah 11:12

Hear now in regard to thirty pieces of silver: "And I will say to them, 'If it seems good to you, give me my wages, or refuse.' " One recompense is due me for curing the blind and the lame, and I receive another; instead of thanksgiving, dishonor, and instead of worship, insult. Do you see how Scripture foresaw all this? "And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver." O prophetic accuracy! A great and unerring wisdom of the Holy Spirit! For he did not say ten or twenty but thirty, exactly the right amount. Tell also what happened to this payment, O prophet! Does he who received it keep it, or does he give it back? And after its return what becomes of it? The prophet says, "So I took thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, into the foundry." Compare with the prophecy of the Gospel, which says, "Judas repented and flung the pieces of silver into the temple and withdrew."

You observe that he was appraised by the traitor's covetousness at thirty pieces of silver. Of this also the prophet speaks, "And I said to them, If you think good, give me my price, or if not, forbear"; and "presently, I received from them," he says, "thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, into the foundry." Is not this what is written in the Gospels, that Judas, "repenting of what he had done, brought back the money, and threw it down in the temple and departed"? Well did he call it his price, as though blaming and upbraiding. For he had done so many good works among them, he had given sight to the blind, feet to the lame, the power of walking to the palsied, life also to the dead; for all these good works they paid him death as his price, appraised at thirty pieces of silver. It is related also in the Gospels that he was bound. This also the word of prophecy had foretold by Isaiah, saying, "Woe to their soul, who have devised a most evil device against themselves, saying, 'Let us bind the just one, seeing that he is unprofitable to us.' "

But since what the evangelist says after these things (then was fulfilled that which had been spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying the things which are written) — this is not found to have been prophesied by Jeremiah anywhere in his books, whether those which are read in the churches or those which are recited among the Jews — but if anyone can know, let him show where it is written. I suspect, however, that either it is an error of the Scripture and Jeremiah is put for Zechariah, or that there is some secret writing of Jeremiah in which it is written. Now such is the text in Zechariah the prophet: "and I will say to them: if it is good in your sight, give me my wages, or refuse them; and they appointed my wages, thirty pieces of silver. And the Lord said to me: put them down into the furnace, and see if it is genuine, even as I was proved for their sake. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and put them into the house of the Lord, into the furnace". But if anyone saying this supposes that he stumbles, let him see whether this may be prophesied somewhere in the secret writings of Jeremiah, knowing that the Apostle too brings forward certain writings of the secret books, as he says somewhere: "what eye has not seen nor ear heard"; for in no canonical book is this found set down, except in the secret writings of Elijah the prophet.