Qoheleth: Verse of the Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Luke 23:47 - 56 Now when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man. And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned. And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things. And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and pre

 In this passage God had Zechariah portray a Good shepherd and He asked for His peoples evaluation of His worth.   They valued him at 30 pieces of silver, the price of a slave (Exodus 21:32).  He then placed His own valuation on the valuation He had received calling it ‘goodly’ and then casting it down as the insult that it was to His Great Worth and everything He had done for His people.  All of this foreshadowed the ultimate valuation that they would place on His Son and on His Love for them at the time of Christ.  Judas and the Jewish leaders agreed on the value they felt He was worth when they agreed on a price to betray Him.  When Judas was later filled with remorse and tried to return the price he’d been paid, it was refused so he cast it down as well.  The Jewish leaders took the money and bought the potter’s field as a place for the poor to be buried. One other interesting facet to this is that 30 pieces of silver was also the price to liberate a slave, also called a ransom.  J

 

 

 

 The subject in question is wisdom which the Holy Spirit provides. “Job 28:23 (MSBNASB): Job and his friends have probed God’s wisdom for 3 court rounds and basically have arrived nowhere near the truth. Finally, Job made the point clearly that the divine wisdom necessary to explain his suffering was inaccessible to man. Only God knew all about it, because He knows everything”