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

I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on justice! I will render vengeance on my adversaries. I will repay those who hate me.

In that day Jehovah will punish with his sword, his fierce, great and powerful sword. He will slay Leviathan the fleeing, coiling serpent, the monster of the sea.

You cry out: Sword of Jehovah, how long will you keep on fighting? Go back into your sheath. Stay there and rest!

I am going to kill the righteous people and the wicked people among you. That is why my sword will come out of its sheath to be used against everyone from the south to the north.

My shepherd

Jehovah my God said: Feed the flock doomed to slaughter.

He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young.

I will place one shepherd over them, my servant David. He will take care of them. He will take care of them and be their shepherd.

My servant David will be their king. All of them will have one shepherd. They will live by my rules, and they will obey my laws.

You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting (days of antiquity) (ancient times).

The thief comes to steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

When the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

Smite

He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows. We considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.

Seventy weeks (seventy sets of seven time periods) are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish transgression and to make an end of sin, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.

The next day he saw Jesus coming to him. He boldly declared: Behold! The Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world!

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must also be lifted up.

You took this man and delivered him by the determined counsel (purpose) and foreknowledge of God. With wicked hands you impaled and murdered him.

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against Jehovah, and against his Christ. (Psalm 2:2)

being justified freely by his grace (as a gift) through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification (acquittal).

While we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

He that did not spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?

He made the one who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. That way we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.

It was the good pleasure of the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell.

When Christ came into the world he said: 'Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but you have prepared a body for me.

Know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your fathers. [The redemption] was not with corruptible things like silver or gold,

He bore our sins in his body upon the stake, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed because of his wounds (stripes).

Because Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.

He is the propitiation (Greek: hilasmos: atonement, compensation) for our sins. Not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

The love of God was made known through us. God sent his only-begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

All the citizens of earth will worship him, all whose names have not been written in the Lamb's book of life who was slain from the foundation of the world.

The sheep

Jesus said to them: All of you will fall away because of me tonight. It is written, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Jesus told them: You would all be turned away from me. It is written, I will put the keeper of the sheep to death, and the sheep will be put to flight.

Behold! The hour comes, and indeed, it is here, that you will be scattered and each one will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.

I will turn

So I fed the poor of the flock of slaughter. I took two staffs; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

And whoever gives a drink of cold water to one of these little ones because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will not lose his reward.

Do not treat these little ones badly. I tell you that angels represent them in the presence of my Father in heaven.

Do not fear little flock for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

It would be better for him to have a large millstone tied around his neck and be thrown into the sea than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.

Jesus answered: I told you that I am he. If you seek me let these go their way.

General references

How then will the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen this way?

The Son of man must suffer many things, he told them. The elders, chief priests and scribes will reject him and kill him. The third day he will be raised up.

Did the Christ need to suffer these things and enter into his glory?