In Matthew the silver was 'given for the potter's field', whilst in Zechariah it was just 'cast to the potter in the house of the Lord', for no obvious reason. There are thirty pieces of silver, that was the value of somebody, and there was a potter involved. There are similarities here, but compared to the like-for-like quotations we typically see in the Gospels, this just has a loose resemblance. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD. 13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a princely price that I was valued at by them. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
"And I said unto them, If you think it good, give me my price and if not, forbear. Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “ And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced, 10 and gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.” Matthew 27:9-10, NKJV. There are really two questions here, and I think the first is easy and the second is hard: Is this a reference to Zechariah 11:12-13 Moreover, it is usual with them to say (b), that the spirit of Jeremiah was in Zechariah and it is very plain, that the latter prophets have many things from the former and so might Zechariah have this originally from Jeremy, which now stands in his prophecy: all this would be satisfactory to a Jew: and it is to be observed, that the Jew (c), who objects to everything he could in the evangelist, with any appearance on his side, and even objects to the application of this prophecy yet finds no fault with him for putting Jeremy for Zechariah.
"it is a tradition of our Rabbins, that the order of the prophets is, Joshua and Judges, Samuel and the Kings, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, Isaiah, and the twelve.'' That such was the order of the books of the Old Testament, is evident from the following passage (a) "What seems best to solve this difficulty, is, that the order of the books of the Old Testament is not the same now, as it was formerly: the sacred writings were divided, by the Jews, into three parts: the first was called the law, which contains the five books of Moses the second, the prophets, which contains the former and the latter prophets the former prophets began at Joshua, and the latter at Jeremy the third was called Cetubim, or the Hagiographa, the holy writings, which began with the book of Psalms: now, as this whole third and last part is called the Psalms, Lu 24:44, because it began with that book so all that part which contained the latter prophets, for the same reason, beginning at Jeremy, might be called by his name hence a passage, standing in the prophecy of Zechariah, who was one of the latter prophets, might be justly cited, under the name of Jeremy. Quoting from John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible,
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