Zechariah 13:7

MNT

Zechariah 13:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

My shepherd

John 10:10

Hebrews 13:20

1 Peter 5:4

Smite

The sheep

Matthew 26:31

Mark 14:27

John 16:32

I will turn

John 18:8

General references

Matthew 26:54

Luke 9:22

Luke 24:26

Bible References

My shepherd

"The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant,

Then, when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, you too will receive the fadeless wreath of glory.

Smite

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

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

him, delivered up by the settled purpose and fore-knowledge of God, you crucified and killed at the hands of lawless men;

"The kings of the earth set themselves in array, And the rulers were gathered together Against the Lord and against his Christ.

but they are now being justified by his free grace through the deliverance that is in Christ Jesus.

who was betrayed to death for our transgressions, and raised again to life for our justification.

For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.

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

Him who knew no sin, in our behalf he has made to be sin; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

For in him all the divine fulness chose to dwell;

It is for this reason that the Christ, on coming into the world, declared. Sacrifice and offerings thou dost not desire, But a body didst thou prepare for me;

For you well know that not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were you redeemed from the emptiness of your manner of life, received by tradition from your ancestors;

He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

because Christ also once for all suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but make alive in spirit.

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

In this was the love of God clearly shown toward us, by his sending his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

and each one whose name has not been written in the Lamb's book of life, the Lamb who has been slain from the foundation of the world. All who dwell on the earth shall worship him.

The sheep

Then Jesus said to them. "This very night even you will all stumble and fall away from me; for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

And Jesus said to them. "All of you are about to stumble, for it is written, 'I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad.'"

"behold the hour approaches and is already come when you will be scattered, each man to his home, and will leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I will turn

"And whoever gives to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, because he is a disciple, I tell you in solemn truth, he shall not lose his reward.

"See to it that you never despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father in heaven.

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

"It were well for him if a millstone were tied about his neck, and he were hurled into the sea, rather than he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

"I have already told you that I am he," said Jesus. "If, then, you are looking for me, let these go their way."

General references

"But if I did, how could the Scriptures be fulfilled that say that thus it must happen?"

and he said, "The Son of man must suffer much, and be restricted by the elders and high priests and scribes and be put to death, and on the third day be raised again."

"Behooved it not the Christ to suffer thus, and then to enter into his glory?"