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Introduction

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Thirty silver pieces are striking, but not simple.

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Zechariah 11's thirty pieces of silver and potter imagery have long been linked to Judas and the passion narrative. But the text is difficult, and this row is duplicate/context under the canonical thirty-silver anchor. It is here to keep the connection inspectable without pretending the evidence is cleaner or more independent than it is.

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Reader's Orientation
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Zechariah 11: thirty pieces of silver invites a slow reading, because Scripture evidence can be powerful only when original context and later use are both kept in view. The ordinary-language version is this: this row is best treated as a signpost to a related canonical item, not as a second independent piece of evidence. Read it carefully: textual evidence has to respect genre, original setting, later interpretation, and the temptation to make a passage do too much. Because this row is unweighted or contextual, its job is to orient the reader rather than to push the totals by itself.

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Think of it as a signpost rather than a second witness. It may point toward an important claim, but the main evidential weight belongs to the canonical item named elsewhere in the article.

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Existing Governance Note
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\nThis row overlaps canonical item `E-SCR-ZECH11-THIRTY-SILVER-POTTER` and should not carry independent Bayes factors. It remains as duplicate/context pending later merge, child/context rewrite, or deprecation decision.\n
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