The Biblical Meaning of the Number 30 The number thirty, being 3 x 10, denotes in a higher degree the perfection of Divine order, as marking the right moment. Jesus was Thirty years of age at the commencement of His ministry (Luke 3:23). Joseph, His type, was the same age (Genesis 41:46). King David also, when he began to reign over Israel, was 30 years old (2Samuel 5:4). Additional commentary on the Biblical Meaning of 30 *The number 30 pictures dedication. Aaronic priests were dedicated to serve at age 30. John the Baptist, the son of a priest, began his ministry at age 30, six months before Jesus began His at age 30. Thirty also portrays the blood of Christ. Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. When he threw the silver back into the temple, the priests rejected it as an offering but decided instead to buy a field - which was a fulfillment of an ancient prophecy: "But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, 'It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood.' And they consulted together and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. "Then was fulfilled what was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying, 'And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the value of Him who was priced, whom they of the children of Israel priced, and gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.' " (Matthew 27:6-10, NKJV)
On the Passover day in 30 AD Jesus Christ shed His blood and died on the cross — the blood of the Lamb to take away the sin of the world. |