Zechariah 13:7

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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 cometh not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.

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

And when the chief shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.

Smite

The next day he seeth Jesus coming toward him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.

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

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

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

And are justified freely by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus:

Who was delivered for our offences, 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 hath made him, who knew no sin, a sin-offering for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God through him.

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

For it pleased the Father, that all fulness should dwell in him:

Therefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou hast not chosen, but a body hast thou prepared for me.

Seeing ye know ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation delivered by tradition from your fathers,

Who himself bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sin might live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,

and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Hereby 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 will worship him, whose name is not written in the book of life of the Lamb, who was slain, from the foundation of the world.

The sheep

Then saith Jesus to them, All ye will be offended at me this night, for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.

And Jesus saith to them, Ye all will be offended at me this night; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

yea, is already come, that ye shall be scattered every one to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone; for the Father is with me.

I will turn

And whosoever shall give to drink to 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.

See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say to you, that in heaven their angels continually 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 were better for him that a mill-stone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

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

General references

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

to tell this to no man, 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?