Zechariah 13:7

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Zechariah 13:7

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Summary

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

O sword

My shepherd

Smite

The sheep

Matthew 26:31

Mark 14:27

John 16:32

I will turn

General references

Matthew 26:54

Luke 9:22

Luke 24:26

Bible References

O sword

If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand takes hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

In that day the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the fleeing serpent, even leviathan that twisted serpent; and he shall slay the monster that is in the sea.

O you sword of the LORD, how long will it be before you are quiet? put yourself into your scabbard, rest, and be still.

Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

My shepherd

Thus says the LORD my God; Feed the flock for the slaughter;

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.

The thief comes not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fades not away.

Smite

Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

The next day John saw Jesus coming unto him, and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

For he has made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:

For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell;

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you desired not, but a body have you prepared me:

Since you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain manner of life received by tradition from your fathers;

Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit:

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

The sheep

Then said Jesus unto them, All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

And Jesus said unto them, All you shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

Behold, the hour comes, yea, is now come, that you shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I will turn

And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staffs; the one I called Grace, and the other I called Unity; and I fed the flock.

And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Take heed that you despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

It would be better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he was cast into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Jesus answered, I have told you that I am he: if therefore you seek me, let these go their way:

General references

But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?