“They Will Sell Me for Silver and for Gold”
This is a strong image connoting idolatry-the worship of man-made gods in lieu of the God of Israel. These trample under their feet the things of God and go “whoring” (see Exodus 34:15-16) after other things of the world that cannot satisfy the spiritual hunger within the soul and does not produce the fulness of joy of which the Savior just spoke. In a literal sense Judas sold Christ for thirty pieces of silver, but in a spiritual sense we “sell” Christ and betray him any time the things of the world are more important to us than the things of God.
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