I Take My Staff Grace and I Break It, Encumbered by Money

In Matthew 6, Jesus says you can't serve God and Mammon. He was probably looking at Judas and trying to win Judas' heart over to that. In Zechariah 9, we read about the scene where the son of David comes into the city on a donkey much like Jesus does. And so they no longer want shepherding from the Lord,. They sell them off with 30 pieces of shekles, 30 pieces of silver. So it seems like this is kind of in the background of the narrative.