In the gospels Judas was described by other disciples as a thief, betrayer, coveter of money and the son of perdition. After giving up Our Messiah to the Yehudah chief priests Judas realized he had committed a grievous act. He had received blood money for his loathsome deed and he returned to the Hekal{temple} admitting to the chief priests he had sinned in turning in an innocent person to be condemned and sentenced to death.

He returned the money to the Yehudah chief priests who would not take it back because it was blood money. Judas threw the money onto the Hekal floor and in shame he left the Hekal and successfully committed suicide.  The blood money was used by the Yehudah priests to purchase a potters field which became known as the Field of Blood. This fulfilled prophecies made by the prophets Yirmeyahu{Jeremiah} and Zekaryah{ Zechariah}. The Field of Blood became a burial ground for gentile foreigners.

A big question we might ask is – How was The Messiah valued at thirty pieces of silver? Was it an arbitrary price that came out of thin air or is there any significance to the amount paid to Judas. We know the “thirty pieces of silver” is very significant because it was one of the many Messianic prophecies in scripture that was fulfilled.

Zec 11:12-13 And I said to them, “If it is good in your eyes, give me my wages. And if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for my wages thirty pieces of silver. 13 And Yeshayahna said to me, “Throw it to the potter,” the splendid price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the House of Yeshayahna for the potter.

We should take notice of the irony present in the term “the splendid price at which I was valued by them”. The prophecy tells us that they valued The Messiah based on specific guidelines. There was a basis for valuation. The Bible Knowledge Commentary writes “Israel’s appraisal of the True Shepherd’s worth was 30 pieces of silver, the compensation price for a slave gored by an ox.”

Exo 21:32 “If the ox gores a male or female servant, he is to give to their master thirty sheqels of silver, and the ox is stoned.

This linkage to a gored servant seems to have merit given The Messiah was gored to death at the impalement. The gored servant can be male or female so this does not help us establish The Messiah as a female. However this interpretation does not account for Judas receiving the blood money prior to The Messiah being gored besides which The Messiah was not gored by an ox but by Roman Soldiers. Had The Messiah first been gored followed by Judas receiving the money we could potentially accept this appraisal. This distinction is relevant because thirty pieces of silver has another interpretation in scripture which answers exactly why The Messiah was valued at thirty pieces of silver.

We are going to find our answer in the 27^th Chapter of Leviticus. The first part of the chapter covers vows made by people who wanted to dedicate themselves to Yeshayahna. They wanted to be a slave or work for Yeshayahna. The Preachers Commentary writes;

Verses Lev_27:2-8 deal with vows in which persons were set apart to God. Apparently this was the vow in which one dedicated oneself to the service of God, literally as a slave to God. In their view, to be a slave to God would have meant working as slaves in the temple, but only the priests and Levites could be so involved. Therefore, they could keep such a vow by paying to the sanctuary for its upkeep and operation a price roughly equivalent to what they would have been worth on the slave market. In that market, different values were placed upon per sons according to gender and age, and those values are reflected in verses Lev_27:4-7.”

The Messiah Yashayahnah was valued at thirty sheqels because She vowed Her life to Her Father Yeshayahna. She was over twenty years old and a female calling for a valuation of thirty pieces(Sheqels) of silver. Males were valued at fifty pieces of silver.

Lev 27:1-4 And Yeshayahna spoke to Mosheh, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When a man separates a vow, by your evaluation of lives unto Yeshayahna, 3 when your evaluation is of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old, then your evaluation shall be fifty sheqels of silver, according to the sheqel of the set-apart place. 4 ‘And if it is a female, then your evaluation shall be thirty sheqels;

The chief priests simply purchased The Messiah from Judas to be their slave instead of their Sovereign. The price for doing so was thirty pieces of silver from the Hekal’s set-apart treasury.

Mat 26:14-15 Then one of the twelve, called Yehuḏah from Qerioth, went to the chief priests, 15 and said, “What would you give me to deliver Her to you?” And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver.

How deep is our love for The Messiah? Is She worth thirty pieces of silver or is She a priceless pearl. How deep is our love for silver, gold and other items of treasure and pleasure? We can turn to and embrace Yashayahnah Messiah in our lives and we can make a free vow for love over riches.

There will be those who choose to take the vow of loving and worshipping Elohim in spirit and truth knowing they will die gratefully waiting for the morning of the Coming Messiah Yashayahnah. Let’s make Her our Woman now and do the things She taught us to do.

There will also be those of us who choose to sing the tune of the dead – Friend of the Devil. Somewhere along the way we will be struck by lightning riding on our Camel and all our sheqels will prove to be worthless.

Luk 18:25 “For it is easier for a camel to enter through a needle’s eye than for a rich person to enter into the reign of Elohim.”

In summary Judas became a rich man for a few hours when he sold Messiah Yashayahnah to the chief priests for the valuation of a female slave over twenty years old which was thirty pieces of silver. This is clear proof that The Messiah is a female.