Zechariah 11:13

Cast it "as a thing vile and rejected, as torn flesh was to be cast to dogs (Exodus 22:31), or a corpse was cast unburied (Isaiah 14:19), or the dead body of Absalom was cast into the pit (2 Samuel 18:17), or the dust of the idol-altars into the brook Kidron by Josiah (2 Kings 23:12), or the idols to the moles and the bats (Isaiah 2:20), or Judah and Israel from the face of God into a strange land (2 Kings 13:23); Coniah and his seed, a vessel in which is no pleasure, into a land which they knew not (Jeremiah 22:28), or the rebels against God said, let us cast away their cords from us(Psalms 2:3), or wickedness was cast into the Ephah (Zechariah 5:8); once it is added, for loathing(Ezekiel 16:5)." Pusey.

a goodly price or, the goodly price, R. V. This is, of course, ironical.

to the potter in the house of the Lord to the potter;because his business was to make the most worthless of vessels, the last and least "to honour" of those found "in a great house" (2 Timothy 2:20), and thus the unworthiness of the "price" was shewn, as being only deserving of such a destiny. In the house of the Lord:both because He it was who, whether in the person of His servants or of His Son, was the real subject of the insulting valuation, and also because a formal and national character was given to the transaction, by its thus taking place before Jehovah and in His House. This explanation, which seems to be the simplest and most satisfactory, of this confessedly difficult passage, does not necessarily involve the supposition that the potter was in the house of the Lord, when the pieces of silver were cast contemptuously down there. It is enough if, in the vision or symbolical action of Zechariah, they were in some way clearly declared to be for him.

Like the earlier prophecy of the King (Zechariah 9:9), this prophecy of the Shepherd is remarkable for its literal fulfilment. The "thirty pieces of silver" were literally the "goodly price" paid for Him, "whom they of the children of Israel did value. "The potter" was literally the recipient of it, as the purchase-money of his exhausted field for an unclean purpose (Matthew 27:5-10).