John Trapp on Zechariah 11:13

Verſe 13. Caſt it unto the potter] q. d. Do they deal with me as with ſome ſordid ſwineherd? Do they award me leſſe then Carters wages? throw't away, let the potter take it: and let us ſee how many tiles he can afford us for it, to repair the roof of the Temple. Their undervaluing and vilipending of me in this ſort, is not onely injurious, but contumelious: it is to turn my glory into ſhame; to ſpet in my face: or to uſe me as homely as Rachel did her fathers gods, which ſhe laid among the litter, and ſat upon.

A goodly price that I was valued at of them] So he calleth it by an Irony, or a holy jear. Poor Joſeph was ſold for leſſe; for twenty pieces of ſilver, Gen. 37.28. They ſold the juſt one for ſilver, and the poor for a pair of ſhoots, Amos 2.6. The Hebrews tell us,Pirk R. Eliez. cap 38. that of thoſe twenty ſhekels, every of the ten brethren had two to buy ſhooes for his feet. The Jews that bought Chriſt for thirty pieces of ſilver (this goodly price) of the traytour that ſold him, were themſelves afterwards (by a juſt hand of God upon them) bought and ſold thirty of them for a peny by the Romans,Hegeſipp. de excid. Hieroſol. p. 680. ad illudendum, ſaith mine Authour, for a ſcorn to their Nation. God loves to retaliate; and to ſet the ſcales even; mens cruelty in the one, and their reward in the other. If we be at any time under-rated by the world, (as we are ſure to be; for the world knows us not, 1 Joh. 3.2.) what ſo great matter is it, ſith Chriſt himſelf was no more ſet by? We muſt be content to paſſe to heaven (as he did) as concealed men. It muſt ſuffice us, that our precious faith ſhall bee found to praiſe, honour, and glory at that great fair-day: when all fardles ſhall be opened, and our beſt wares expoſed to publike view.

and caſt them to the potter] I gave them for the potters field, 1 Pet. 1.7 as the Lord appointed me, ſaith the Evangeliſt, expounding the Prophet, and applying the words to Chriſt,Mat. 27.10 who is hereby alſo proved to be God. So true is that obſervation of Divines, that the old Teſtament is both explained and fulfilled in the New, by an happy harmony.

in the houſe of the Lord] That thereby he might the more ſharply prick the Prieſts: whoſe care it ought to have been, that God ſhould be better prized by the people, and his ſervice better obſerved.