Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
Mt. 27 ... When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. 3Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. 6And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. 8Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. 9Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value; 10And gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.
I thought of how twisted the thinking was of the chief priests and elders. They had tried to entrap Jesus. They knew they were going to kill Jesus. They even tried to set up false witnesses against Jesus. And yet they reasoned that it was not lawful for them to put Judas' money back into treasury for it was the price of blood (which they had arranged themselves) ...
But even in this, good came for it fulfilled the word spoken by Jeremiah the prophet.
Mt. 27 ... Pilate knew Jesus had been delivered by the people because of envy ... Pilate's wife called Jesus, "that just man" (v. 19) ... Yet Pilate "scourged" Jesus and delivered Jesus to be crucified (v. 27)
What they did to Jesus was a farce ... but Jesus submitted to the farce because it was the will of God and it fulfilled scripture. That was the justice, the fulfilling of scripture. Jesus did all things to fulfill scripture.
When things are unjust ... Heb. 12 ... Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Things are often twisted when our flesh is involved and when we interpret by the flesh and thinking of flesh ... A woman was telling me that before she married her second husband she and this prospective husband went to a pastor to see if it was permitted for her to marry (she was divorced). As she was telling me this story, I heard: "But wasn't she committing fornication at that time with this man?" I asked her this: At the time you went to this pastor to see if you could remarry, were you committing fornication with this man? She replied: "Yes."
She wasn't born again when she did the above ... but even after being born again (at the time she told me the story) she was unhappy with the pastor for telling them they were approved in the sight of God to marry. Basically the word I heard set her free because nothing really mattered concerning what that pastor told her at that time because they were already committing fornication.