Snickers - wikipedia Snickers Jump to : navigation , search This article is about the candy bar . For other uses , see Snickers ( disambiguation ) . Snickers Product type Confectionery Owner Mars , Incorporated Introduced 1930 Markets Worldwide Website www.snickers.com Snickers is a brand name chocolate bar made by the American company Mars , Incorporated . Consisting of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts , enrobed in milk chocolate , Snickers has annual global sales of $2 billion . In the United Kingdom , the Isle of Man , and Ireland , Snickers was sold under the brand name Marathon until 19 July 1990 . Snickers brand Marathon energy bars have since been sold in some markets . Contents ( hide ) 1 History 1.1 Snickers Duo 1.2 Australian recall 2 Caloric value 3 Bar weight 4 Products containing Snickers 5 Advertising 5.1 It 's So Satisfying 5.2 1984 Olympics 5.3 Not Going Anywhere For a While ? ( Hungry ? Grab a Snickers ! / Why Wait ? ) 5.4 Snickers Feast 5.5 Super Bowl XLI commercial 5.6 Mr. T 5.7 NASCAR 5.8 FIFA World Cup & UEFA Euro Sponsorship 5.9 You 're Not You When You 're Hungry 5.10 WrestleMania 6 See also 7 References 8 External links History ( edit ) In 1930 , Mars introduced Snickers , named after the favorite horse of the Mars family . The Snickers chocolate bar consists of nougat , peanuts , and caramel with a chocolate coating . The bar was marketed under the name `` Marathon '' in the UK and Ireland until July 19 , 1990 , when Mars decided to align the UK product with the global Snickers name ( Mars had marketed and discontinued an unrelated bar named Marathon in the United States during the 1970s ) . There are also several other Snickers products such as Snickers mini , dark chocolate , ice cream bars , Snickers with almonds , Snickers with hazelnuts , Snickers peanut butter bars , Snickers protein and Snickers with Extra Caramel . Snickers Duo ( edit ) A replacement for the king size Snickers bar was launched in the UK in 2004 and designed to conform to the September 2004 Food and Drink Federation ( FDF ) `` Manifesto for Food and Health '' . Part of the FDF manifesto was seven pledges of action to encourage the food and drink industry to be more health conscious . Reducing portion size , clearer food labels , and reduction of the levels of fat , sugar , and salt were among the FDF pledges . Mars Incorporated pledged to phase out their king - size bars in 2005 and replace them with shareable bars . A Mars spokesman said : `` Our king - size bars that come in one portion will be changed so they are shareable or can be consumed on more than one occasion . The name king - size will be phased out . '' These were eventually replaced by the ' Duo ' , a double bar pack . Though this change to Duos reduced the weight from 3.5 to 3.29 ounces ( 99 to 93 g ) , the price remained the same . The packaging has step - by - step picture instructions of how to open a Duo into two bars , in four simple actions . As Mars stated fulfillment of their promise , the Duo format was met with criticism by the National Obesity Forum and National Consumer Council . Australian recall ( edit ) In December 2000 , tens of thousands of Snickers and Mars Bars were removed from New South Wales store shelves due to a series of threatening letters which resulted in fears that the chocolate bars had been poisoned . Mars received letters from an unidentified individual indicating that they planned to plant poisoned chocolate bars on store shelves . The last letter sent included a Snickers bar contaminated with a substance which was later identified as rat poison . The letters claimed that there were seven additional chocolate bars which had been tampered with and which were for sale to the public . As a precautionary measure , Mars issued a massive recall . Mars said that there had been no demand for money and complaints directed to an unidentified third party . Caloric value ( edit ) The USDA lists the caloric value of a 2 - ounce ( 57 gram ) Snickers bar as 280 kilocalories ( 1,200 kJ ) . As of 2016 , the United Kingdom bar has a weight of 48g , with 245 kcal , and the Canadian bar 52g with 250 kcal . The four - pack bar in the United Kingdom has a weight of 41.7 g , with 213kcal . Bar weight ( edit ) Over the years , the bar weight has decreased : Before 2009 , in the UK a single Snickers bar had a weight of 62.5 g . This weight was subsequently reduced to 58g in 2009 , and to 48g in 2013 . Products containing Snickers ( edit ) Containing approximately 450 calories ( 1,900 J ) per bar , deep fried chocolate bars ( including Snickers and Mars bars ) became a specialty in fish and chips shops in Scotland in 1995 , and in the early 2000s , became popular at American state fairs . In 2012 , the British Food Commission highlighted celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson 's `` Snickers pie '' , which contained five Snickers bars among other ingredients , suggesting it was one of the unhealthiest desserts ever ; one slice providing `` over 1,250 calories ( 5,200 kJ ) from sugar and fat alone '' , more than half a day 's requirement for an average adult . The pie had featured on his BBC Saturday programme some two years earlier and the chef described it as an occasional treat only . Advertising ( edit ) It 's so satisfying ( edit ) In 1980 , Snickers ran ads which featured a variety of everyday people discussing why they like Snickers . The ads featured a jingle that said `` It 's so satisfying '' and had the classic hand that would open and close showing a handful of peanuts converting to a Snickers bar . `` Packed with peanuts , Snickers really satisfies '' was shown in the commercials . 1984 Olympics ( edit ) Mars paid $5 million to have Snickers and M&M 's named the `` official snack '' of the 1984 Summer Olympics , outraging nutritionists . Sports promotions in international games continued to be a prominent marketing tool for Mars , that would keep Snickers as an international brand while also selling local bars in some markets . Not going anywhere for a while ? ( Hungry ? Grab a Snickers ! / why Wait ? ) ( edit ) Beginning in 1995 , Snickers ran ads which featured someone making a self - inflicted mistake , with the voice - over saying `` Not going anywhere for a while ? Grab a Snickers ! '' The tag line at the end of each ad proclaimed , `` Hungry ? Why Wait ? '' One such ad had a player for a fictional American football team showing off his new tattoo of the team 's logo on his back to his teammates . He then shows it to his head coach who , after complimenting the tattoo , immediately tells him that he 's been traded to Miami . The player then goes to have his old team 's logo replaced with the new team 's logo . Some of the ads were done in conjunction with the National Football League , with whom Snickers had a sponsorship deal at the time . One ad featured a member of the grounds crew at Arrowhead Stadium painting the field for an upcoming Kansas City Chiefs game in hot , late - summer weather . After finishing one of the end zones , and visibly exhausted , one of the Chiefs players walks up to him and says the field looks great , `` but who are the Chefs ? '' , showing that despite all the hard work the painter accidentally omitted the `` i '' in Chiefs . Another had Marv Levy in the Buffalo Bills locker room lecturing his team that `` no one 's going anywhere '' until the Bills figure out how to actually win a Super Bowl . Snickers feast ( edit ) In 2007 , Snickers launched a campaign which featured Henry the VIII and a Viking among others who attend the `` Snickers Feast '' . It consisted of various commercials of the gang and their adventures on the feast . Super Bowl XLI commercial ( edit ) On February 4 , 2007 , during Super Bowl XLI , Snickers commercials aired which resulted in complaints by gay and lesbian groups against the maker of the candy bar , Masterfoods USA of Hackettstown , New Jersey , a division of Mars , Incorporated . The commercial showed a pair of auto mechanics accidentally touching lips while sharing a Snickers bar . After quickly pulling away , one mechanic says , `` I think we just accidentally kissed . '' , and another mechanic exclaims , `` Quick ! Do something manly ! '' and in three of the four versions , they do so mostly in the form of injury , including tearing out chest hair , striking each other with a very large pipe wrench , and drinking motor oil and windshield washer fluid . In the fourth version , however , a third mechanic shows up and asks `` Is there room for three in this Love Boat ? '' Complaints were lodged against Masterfoods that the ads were homophobic . Human Rights Campaign president Joe Solmonese is quoted as saying `` This type of jeering from professional sports figures at the sight of two men kissing fuels the kind of anti-gay bullying that haunts countless gay and lesbian school children on playgrounds all across the country . '' Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD ) president Neil Giuliano said `` That Snickers , Mars and the NFL would promote and endorse this kind of prejudice is simply inexcusable . '' Masterfoods has since pulled the ads and the website . Mr. T ( edit ) In 2006 , Mr. T starred in a Snickers advert in the UK where he rides up in an army tank and shouts abuse at a football player who appears to be faking an injury , threatening to introduce him to his friend Pain . Another advert featured Mr. T launching bars at a swimmer who appeared to refuse to get in a swimming pool because of the cold temperature of the water . In 2008 , a European Snickers commercial in which Mr. T uses a Jeep - mounted Minigun to fire Snickers bars at a speedwalker for being a `` disgrace to the man race '' was pulled after complaints from a US pressure group that the advertisement was homophobic . These adverts usually ended with Mr. T saying `` Snickers : Get Some Nuts ! '' NASCAR ( edit ) In NASCAR racing , Snickers ( and the rest of the Mars affiliated brands ) sponsor Kyle Busch 's # 18 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing . Prior to that the brand served as a primary sponsor for Ricky Rudd 's # 88 Robert Yates Racing Ford as well as an associate sponsor for the team 's # 38 car driven first by Elliott Sadler and then by David Gilliland , and an associate sponsor for the MB2 Motorsports # 36 Pontiac driven by Derrike Cope , Ernie Irvan , Ken Schrader , and others . In 1990 , Bobby Hillin drove for Stavola Brothers Racing in the # 8 Snickers Buick , marking the candy 's first appearance as a sponsor ; it had since been driven by Rick Wilson and Dick Trickle . FIFA World Cup & UEFA euro sponsorship ( edit ) Snickers was the Official Sponsor of the FIFA World Cup from 1990 until 1998 editions and the UEFA European Championship from 1996 until 2000 . You 're Not You when You 're hungry ( edit ) In 2010 , a new advertising campaign was launched , based around people turning into different people ( usually celebrities ) when they 're hungry ( taking the new campaign 's name `` You 're Not You When You 're Hungry '' quite literally ) . In 2010 , Betty White and Abe Vigoda appeared in the first Snickers commercial in this campaign , playing American football . The commercial was ranked by ADBOWL as the best advertisement of the year . This commercial was also briefly spoofed in an episode of SportsNation on ESPN2 with Michelle Beadle playing the role instead of Betty White in 2011 . Later that year , Snickers commercials featured singers Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli , and comedians Richard Lewis and Roseanne Barr . A 2011 commercial featured actors Joe Pesci and Don Rickles . The tagline varied depending on the commercial 's location or what variety the commercial is showing . The UK version ( featuring men in a changing room turning into Joan Collins and Stephanie Beacham as a result of hunger ) retains Mr. T 's slogan . In Latin America , the slogan was the same as in the UK version , except that men doing extreme sports turning into the Mexican singer Anahí as a result of hunger . In 2013 , Robin Williams and Bobcat Goldthwait also appeared in a Snickers football commercial . In March 2014 , a commercial featuring Godzilla was released to promote the 2014 Godzilla film . In the commercial , Godzilla is shown hanging out with humans on the beach , riding dirt bikes , and water skiing ; he only begins rampaging once he 's hungry . After being fed a Snickers bar , he resumes having fun with the humans . In October 2014 , Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean returned on television by appearing on several UK Snickers commercials and cinema spots . In February 2015 , Snickers ' Super Bowl XLIX commercial featured a parody of a scene from an episode of The Brady Bunch entitled `` Subject Was Noses . '' In the commercial , Carol and Mike try to calm down a hungry and angry Danny Trejo . When the parents give Trejo a Snickers bar , he reverts into Marcia before an irate Jan ( played by Steve Buscemi ) rants upstairs and walks away . In 2016 , for Super Bowl 50 , another Snickers commercial was made , featuring Willem Dafoe ( as Marilyn Monroe ) and Eugene Levy , where `` Marilyn '' complains about filming the iconic `` subway grate '' scene in The Seven Year Itch . After being given a Snickers , Marilyn goes ahead with the scene , with Levy operating the fan below , commenting that the scene wo n't make the movie 's final cut , that nobody would want to see it . WrestleMania ( edit ) Snickers has been an official sponsor of WWE 's WrestleMania events , including WrestleMania 2000 , 22 , 32 , 33 and 34 , while its Cruncher variant sponsored WrestleMania X-Seven , XIX , XX and 21 . Since then , Snickers has sponsored superstars such as Enzo Amore and Big Cass with their signature term , SAWFT , which is labelled at the back of the chocolate bar . See also ( edit ) Curly Wurly Snickers salad Snickers pie List of chocolate bar brands List of candies References ( edit ) ^ Jump up to : `` About Mars : History '' . Retrieved October 14 , 2013 . Jump up ^ `` Snickers Candy Bar '' . Zeer.com . Retrieved January 15 , 2010 . Jump up ^ McCarthy , Michael ( January 31 , 2005 ) . `` Women sweet on humorous Snickers ads '' . USAToday.com . Archived from the original on December 8 , 2005 . Retrieved June 16 , 2009 . Jump up ^ The Marathon candy bar , Christian Science Monitor , Home forum March 18 , 1999 Archived July 6 , 2006 , at the Wayback Machine . 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Thirty pieces of silver - wikipedia Thirty pieces of silver Jump to : navigation , search Judas receiving thirty pieces of silver for betraying Jesus , by Mattia Preti , c. 1640 . Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus , according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26 : 15 in the New Testament . Before the Last Supper , Judas is said to have gone to the chief priests and agreed to hand over Jesus in exchange for 30 silver coins , and to have attempted to return the money afterwards , filled with remorse . The Gospel of Matthew claims that the subsequent purchase of the Potter 's field was fulfilment , by Jesus , of a prophecy of Zechariah . The image has often been used in artwork depicting the Passion of Christ . The phrase is used in literature and common speech to refer to people `` selling out '' , compromising a trust , friendship , or loyalty for personal gain . Contents ( hide ) 1 Biblical narrative 2 Types of coin 3 Theological interpretation 4 Relics and depiction in art 5 Literary references 6 Modern usage 7 See also 8 References Biblical narrative ( edit ) According to the Gospel of Matthew , Judas Iscariot was a disciple of Jesus . Before the Last Supper , Judas went to the chief priests and agreed to hand over Jesus in exchange for 30 silver coins . Jesus was then arrested in Gethsemane , where Judas revealed Jesus ' identity to the soldiers by giving him a kiss . According to Chapter 27 of Matthew 's gospel , Judas was filled with remorse and returned the money to the chief priests before hanging himself . The chief priests decided that they could not put it into the temple treasury as it was considered blood money , and so with it they bought the Potter 's Field . A different account of the death of Judas is given in Acts of Apostles ; it describes Judas as using the money he had been rewarded with - no sum is specified - to buy the Potter 's field , and then falling there , dying of the resulting intestinal injuries . Types of coin ( edit ) The Antiochan tetradrachm is one possibility for the identity of the coins making up the thirty pieces . A Tyrian shekel , another possibility for the type of coin involved . The word used in Matthew 26 : 15 ( ἀργύρια , argyria ) simply means `` silver coins , '' and scholars disagree on the type of coins that would have been used . Donald Wiseman suggests two possibilities . They could have been tetradrachms of Tyre , usually referred to as Tyrian shekels ( 14 grams of 94 % silver ) , or staters from Antioch ( 15 grams of 75 % silver ) , which bore the head of Augustus . Alternatively , they could have been Ptolemaic tetradrachms ( 13.5 ± 1 g of 25 % silver ) . There are 31.1035 grams per troy ounce . At spot valuation of $17.06 / oz ( the closing price on Monday , December 12 , 2016 ) , 30 `` pieces of silver '' would be worth between $185 and $216 in present - day value ( USD ) . The Tyrian shekel weighed four Athenian drachmas , about 14 grams , more than earlier 11 - gram Israeli shekels , but was regarded as the equivalent for religious duties at that time . Because Roman coinage was only 80 % silver , the purer ( 94 % or more ) Tyrian shekels were required to pay the temple tax in Jerusalem . The money changers referenced in the New Testament Gospels ( Matt . 21 : 12 and parallels ) exchanged Tyrian shekels for common Roman currency . The 5th century BC Athenian tetradrachm ( `` four drachmae '' ) coin was perhaps the most widely used coin in the Greek world before the time of Alexander the Great ( along with the Corinthian stater ) . It featured the helmeted profile bust of Athena on the obverse ( front ) and an owl on the reverse ( back ) . In daily use they were called γλαῦκες glaukes ( owls ) , hence the proverb Γλαῦκ ' Ἀθήναζε , ' an owl to Athens ' , referring to something that was in plentiful supply , like ' coals to Newcastle ' . The reverse is featured on the national side of the modern Greek 1 euro coin . Drachmae were minted on different weight standards at different Greek mints . The standard that came to be most commonly used was the Athenian or Attic one , which weighed a little over 4.3 grams . A drachma was approximately a day 's pay for a skilled laborer . So 30 pieces of silver ( 30 tetradrachm ) , at four drachmas each , would roughly be comparable to four months ' ( 120 days ) wages . In the medieval period some religious institutions displayed ancient Greek coins of the island of Rhodes as specimens of the Thirty Pieces of Silver . The obverses of these coins showed a facing head of the sun god Helios , with rays projecting around the upper part of it . These rays were interpreted as a representation of the Crown of Thorns . The extracanonical Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea records that Judas was paid 30 pieces of gold , not silver . Theological interpretation ( edit ) In Zechariah 11 : 12 -- 13 , 30 pieces of silver is the price Zechariah receives for his labour . He takes the coins and throws them `` to the potter '' . Klaas Schilder notes that Zechariah 's payment indicates an assessment of his worth , as well as his dismissal . In Exodus 21 : 32 , 30 pieces of silver was the price of a slave , so while Zechariah calls the amount a `` handsome price '' ( Zechariah 11 : 13 ) , this could be sarcasm . Barry Webb , however , regards it as a `` considerable sum of money . '' Schilder suggests that these 30 pieces of silver then get `` bandied back and forth by the Spirit of Prophecy . '' When the chief priests decide to buy a field with the returned money , Matthew says that this fulfilled `` what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet . '' Namely , `` They took the thirty silver coins , the price set on him by the people of Israel , and they used them to buy the potter 's field , as the Lord commanded me '' ( Matthew 27 : 9 -- 10 ) . Although many scholars see Jeremiah 's name as included in error , Jeremiah 's purchase of a field in Jeremiah 32 may indicate that both prophets are in mind . Craig Blomberg argues that Matthew is using typology in his quotation , rather than `` any kind of single or double fulfillment of actual predictive prophecy . '' According to Blomberg , Matthew is telling his readers that , `` like Jeremiah and Zechariah , Jesus attempts to lead his people with a prophetic and pastoral ministry , but instead he ends up suffering innocently at their hands . '' William Hendriksen argues that Matthew is referring to Jeremiah 19 . Blomberg also suggests that Matthew may also be saying that `` Jesus ' death is a ransom , the price paid to secure a slave 's freedom , '' and that the use of the blood money to buy a burial ground for foreigners ( Matthew 27 : 7 ) may hint at the idea that `` Jesus ' death makes salvation possible for all the peoples of the world , including the Gentiles . '' The 1877 Handy Book for Bible Readers states that `` Argurion , argenteus , denarius . This word occurs in two passages -- ( A ) the account of the betrayal of our Lord for `` thirty pieces of silver '' ( Matt . xxvi. 15 ; xxvii. 3 , 5 , 6 , 9 ) . These have usually been considered to be denarii , but on no sufficient ground . The parallel passage in Zechariah ( xi. 12 , 13 ) , is translated `` thirty ( pieces ) of silver '' ; but which should doubtless be read , `` thirty shekels of silver '' , whilst it is observable that `` thirty shekels of silver '' was the price of blood to be paid in the case of a servant accidentally killed ( Exod . xxi. 32 ) . The passage may therefore be explained as `` thirty shekels of silver '' , not surrent shekels , but tetradrachms of the Attic standard of the Greek cities of Syria and Phoencia . These tetradrachms were common at the time of our Lord , and of them the stater was a specimen . '' Relics and depiction in art ( edit ) Rembrandt 's Judas Returning the Thirty Silver Pieces , 1629 . Judas is often shown in narrative scenes from the Passion holding the silver in a bag or purse , where they serve as an attribute to identify him . As one of the `` Instruments of the Passion '' the Thirty Pieces by themselves often feature in groups of the Instruments , especially in the late Middle Ages , although they are one of the less commonly chosen elements of the group . Sometimes a money bag is used in depictions ; otherwise a hand holding the coins , or two hands , showing the counting - out . The Basilewsky Situla ( 920 ) ( Victoria and Albert Museum , London ) A number of `` Judas - pennies '' , ancient coins said to be from the original thirty , were treated as relics in the Middle Ages , and were believed to help in difficult cases of childbirth . As a minor component of the Instruments , and one whose survival was hard to explain given the Biblical account of the use of the money , the relics , and their depiction in art , both appear from the 14th century , later than more important elements like the Crown of Thorns or Spear of Longinus . This was as a result of new styles of devotions , led by the Franciscans in particular , which promoted contemplation of the Passion episode by episode , as in the Stations of the Cross . The stone on which the coins were said to have been counted out was in the Lateran Palace in Rome . A Syracusan decadrachm held at the Hunt Museum , Limerick is one such coin claimed to be one of the thirty : inscribed on the mount is Quia precium sanguinis est ( Latin : `` This is the price of blood '' ) . Literary references ( edit ) The 30 pieces are used in Christian literature on the betrayal of Jesus , as in the poem Thirty Pieces of Silver by William Blane : `` Thirty pieces of silver '' Burns on the traitor 's brain ; `` Thirty pieces of silver ! Oh ! it is hellish gain ! '' or as in the poem Matthew XXVII : 9 by Jorge Luis Borges : The coin fell on my hollow hand . I could not bear it , although it was light , and I let it fall . It was all in vain . The other said : `` There are still twenty nine . '' The phrase `` 30 pieces of silver '' is used more generally to describe a price at which people sell out . In Dostoyevsky 's Crime and Punishment , it is echoed in the 30 roubles which the character Sonia earns for selling herself . In the folk - song King John and the Bishop , the bishop 's answer to the riddle of how much the king is worth is 29 pieces of silver , as no king is worth more than Jesus . In Shakespeare 's play Henry IV , Part 2 , the mistress of Falstaff asks `` and didst thou not kiss me , and bid me fetch thee thirty shillings ? '' The story `` Treasure Trove '' by F. Tennyson Jesse relates the rediscovery in modern times of the thirty pieces of silver and how they drive men to kill . Modern usage ( edit ) The phrase is used to accuse politicians and artists of selling out their principles or ideals , and is also used in literature as a symbol of betrayal . For example , in the aftermath of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis , a number of residents of the street in which the Governor General John Kerr had been born sent the Governor 30 pieces of silver , as Kerr was widely blamed for the crisis . Another usage was at the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 , a spokesman from Tuvalu criticised the final document by saying , `` It looks like we are being offered 30 pieces of silver to betray our people and our future ... Our future is not for sale . '' The author Jim Butcher uses the coins in his Dresden Files series , in which each coin is the focal point of a fallen angel . This group of angels is known as the Order of the Blackened Denarius , or the Denarians . The Belgian comic book series Blake and Mortimer had a two part story centered on the coins , titled The Curse of the Thirty Denarii ( the English title being The Curse of The 30 Pieces of Silver ) . In film , the allegory of the silver pieces as a price for treason is used in Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves , and in the title of a fourth - season episode of Daniel Boone . See also ( edit ) Wikimedia Commons has media related to 30 pieces of silver . Bargain of Judas Coins in the Bible Kiss of Judas Life of Jesus in the New Testament References ( edit ) Jump up ^ Matthew 26 : 15 Jump up ^ Vincent P. Branick , Understanding the New Testament and Its Message , ( Paulist Press , 1998 ) , pp. 126 -- 128 . Jump up ^ Frederick Dale Bruner , Matthew : A Commentary ( Eerdmans , 2004 ) , p. 710 Jump up ^ R.T. France , The Gospel of Matthew ( Grand Rapids : Wm . B. Eerdmans Publishing , 2007 ) , 976 -- 979 . Jump up ^ France , The Gospel of Matthew , 1012 . Jump up ^ https://www.biblica.com/bible/niv/matthew/27/ Jump up ^ Daniel J. Harrington , The Gospel of Matthew ( Collegeville , Minnesota : Liturgical Press , 1991 ) , 384 -- 387 . Jump up ^ Acts 1 : 18 . Jump up ^ Thayer 's Greek - English Lexicon of the New Testament , 1889 . Jump up ^ D.J. Wiseman , Illustrations from Biblical Archaeology ( London : Tyndale Press , 1958 ) , 87 -- 89 . Jump up ^ Michael E. Marotta ( 2001 ) . `` So - called ' Coins of the Bible ' '' . Archived from the original on 18 June 2002 . Retrieved 11 Sep 2010 . Jump up ^ `` Ancient Jewish Coins Related to the Works of Josephus '' . , citing David Hendin 's Guide to Biblical Coins and Y . Meshorer 's Ancient Jewish Coinage . Jump up ^ `` The role of coins in the First Revolt '' . Jump up ^ `` Israel photos III '' . Jump up ^ γλαύξ in Liddell and Scott . Jump up ^ Thucydides , History of the Peloponnesian War 3.17. 4 . Jump up ^ Ehrman , Bart ; Plese , Zlatko ( 2011 ) . The Apocryphal Gospels : Texts and Translations . New York : Oxford University Press . p. 553 . ISBN 9780199732104 . Jump up ^ Klaas Schilder , Christ in His Suffering ( Grand Rapids : Wm . B. Eerdmans Publishing , 1938 ) , 74 . Jump up ^ Barry Webb , The Message of Zechariah ( Bible Speaks Today ; Nottingham : Inter-Varsity Press , 2003 ) , 151 . Jump up ^ Schilder , Christ in His Suffering , 71 . Jump up ^ John Calvin , for example , says that `` the passage itself plainly shows that the name of Jeremiah has been put down by mistake , instead of Zechariah , for in Jeremiah we find nothing of this sort , nor any thing that even approaches to it . '' John Calvin , Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists , Matthew , Mark and Luke . Jump up ^ Craig S. Keener , The Gospel of Matthew : A Socio - Rhetorical Commentary ( Grand Rapids : Eerdmans , 2009 ) , 657 . Jump up ^ Craig L. Blomberg , `` Matthew , '' in G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson ( eds . ) , Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament ( Grand Rapids : Baker Academic , 2007 ) , 96 . Jump up ^ William Hendriksen , Exposition of the Gospel According to Matthew ( Grand Rapids : Baker , 1973 ) , 948 . Jump up ^ Blomberg , `` Matthew , '' , 97 . Jump up ^ Gertrud Schiller , Iconography of Christian Art , Vol. II ( trans . Janet Seligman ; London : Lund Humphries , 1972 ) , 190 -- 196 . Jump up ^ G.F. Hill , `` Coins and Medals ( Western ) , '' in James Hastings and John A. Selbie , ( eds . ) , Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics , Part 6 ( Whitefish , Montana : Kessinger Publishing , 2003 ) , 703 . Jump up ^ Johannes A. Mol , Klaus Militzer , and Helen J. Nicholson , The Military Orders and the Reformation : Choices , state building , and the weight of tradition ( Hilversum : Uitgeverij Verloren , 2006 ) , 287 . Jump up ^ Schiller , Iconography of Christian Art , Vol. II , 190 -- 191 Jump up ^ Piero Della Francesca , Enigma of Piero , ( 2nd ed. , trans . Martin Ryle and Kate Soper ; London : Verso Books , 2001 ) , 68 . Jump up ^ http://www.huntmuseum.com/collection/collection-items/mg-034.aspx Jump up ^ William Blane , `` Thirty Pieces of Silver , '' in The Silent Land and other Poems , ( London : E. Stock , 1906 ) , 149 . Jump up ^ Jorge Luis Borges , `` Matthew XXVII : 9 , '' in La moneda de hierro , ( Buenos Aires : 1976 ) . ^ Jump up to : David L. Jeffrey , ed. ( 1992 ) . A Dictionary of biblical tradition in English literature . Wm . B. Eerdmans Publishing . p. 766 . ISBN 978 - 0 - 8028 - 3634 - 2 . Jump up ^ Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Crime and punishment , ( Ware : Wordsworth Classics , 2000 ) , 17 . Note by Keith Carabine on p. 470 . Jump up ^ William J. Leatherbarrow , The Cambridge Companion to Dostoevskii , ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2002 ) , 98 . Jump up ^ The residents of the street in Balmain where he had been born posted him thirty pieces of silver . http://www.australian-politics-books.com/ccp0-prodshow/the-real-joh-kerr-richard-hall.html Jump up ^ `` Future not for sale : climate deal rejected '' . ABC News . 19 Dec 2009 . Retrieved 11 Sep 2010 . 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