Zechariah 13:7

Williams

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

A thief does not come for any purpose but to steal and kill and destroy; I have come for people to have life and have it till it overflows.

May God, who gives us peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, who through the blood by which He ratified the everlasting covenant, is now the Great Shepherd of the sheep,

and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the glorious crown that never fades.

Smite

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent on the pole, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

this very Jesus, I say, after He was betrayed, in accordance with the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you had wicked men kill by nailing Him to a cross;

The kings of the earth took their stand. The rulers met against the Lord, and too, against His Christ.'

but anybody may have right standing with God as a free gift of His undeserved favor, through the ransom provided in Christ Jesus.

who was given up to death because of our shortcomings and was raised again to give us right standing with God.

For when we were still helpless, Christ at the proper time died for us ungodly men.

Since He did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not with Him graciously give us everything else?

He made Him who personally knew nothing of sin to be a sin-offering for us, so that through union with Him we might come into right standing with God.

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" --

It is so because it was the divine choice that all the divine fullness should dwell in Him,

So, when Christ was coming into the world, He said:

because you know that you have not been ransomed with things that perish as silver or gold, from the futile way of living taught by your fathers,

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

And He is Himself the atoning sacrifice for our sins; and not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.

All the inhabitants of the earth whose names, from the foundation of the world, have not been written in the slaughtered Lamb's book of life, will worship him.

The sheep

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me tonight, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.'

Listen! A time is coming, yea, it is right here, when you will all be scattered to your homes and will leave me alone. And yet, I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

I will turn

And I solemnly say to you, no one who gives a cup of cold water to one of the least of my disciples, because he is a disciple, will ever fail to get his reward."

"Be careful not to look with scorn on a single one of these little children, for I tell you that in heaven their angels have uninterrupted access to my Father in heaven.

Stop being afraid, my little flock, for your Father has gladly chosen to give you the kingdom.

It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and he be hurled into the sea, than for him to ensnare one of these lowly ones.

Jesus answered, "I have already told you that I am He; so if you are really looking for me, let these men go."

General references

How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, for they say this is the way it must be?"

as He said, "The Son of Man has to endure great suffering and be disowned by the elders, the high priests, and the scribes, and be put to death but be raised to life on the third day."

Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and thus to enter into His glory?"