Zechariah 13:7

Worrell

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 comes not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came, that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.

Now the God of peace, Who brought up from the dead the Great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

and, when the Chief Shepherd is manifested, ye will obtain the unfading crown of glory.

Smite

On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, "Behold, the Lamb of God Who taketh 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;

This Man, delivered up by the settled counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, having fastened to the cross, through the hand of lawless ones, did slay:

The kings of the earth did set themselves in array; and the rulers assembled together, against the Lord, and against His Christ.'

being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;

Who was delivered up for our trespasses, and raised for our justification.

For, while we were yet weak, Christ, in due season, died for the ungodly.

He Who spared not His Own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

Him Who knew no sin He made to be sin on our behalf, that we may become God's righteousness in Him.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; because it has been written, "Cursed is every one who is hung upon a tree";

because it was pleasing that in Him all the fulness should dwell;

Wherefore, coming into the world, He saith, "Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not wish, but a body didst Thou prepare for Me;

knowing that, not with perishable things, with silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain course of life handed down from your fathers;

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by Whose bruise ye were healed.

because Christ also suffered for sins once, a Righteous One in behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

And He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

In this was manifested the love of God in us, that God hath sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through Him.

And all who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the founding of a world.

The sheep

Then Jesus saith to them, "All ye will be made to stumble because of Me this night; for it has been written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.'

And Jesus saith to them, "All ye will be made to stumble; because it has been written, 'I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered abroad.'

Behold, an hour is coming, and has come, that ye should be scattered, each to his own, and leave Me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

I will turn

And whosoever shall give to drink a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple, verily I say to 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 their angels in Heaven do always behold the face of My Father Who is in Heaven.

"Fear not, little flock; because your Father delighted to give you the Kingdom.

It were profitable for him, if a millstone were placed about his neck, and he thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.

Jesus answered, "I told you that I am He; if, therefore, ye are seeking Me, permit these to go their way;"

General references

How, then, could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?"

saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and high priests, and scribes; and be killed, and on the third day be raised up."

Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things, and enter into His glory?"