Zechariah 13:7

Worsley

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 only to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and may have it in perfection.

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

And when the sovereign Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

Smite

The next day John seeth Jesus coming towards him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God that 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:

(as ye yourselves also know,) Him being given up by the determinate counsel and fore-knowlege of God ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.

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

being justified freely by his grace, because of the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

For when we were yet without strength, Christ died in due season for the ungodly.

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him freely give us all things?

For He hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be a sin-offering for us, that in Him we might be made righteous before God.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, having been 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;

Wherefore upon his coming into the world He saith, "Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body hast thou prepared me:

knowing that ye were redeemed from your vain conversation learned by tradition from your fathers, not with corruptible things, as silver and gold;

Who Himself bare our sins in his own body on the cross, that we being dead to sins, might live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye are healed.

As Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust (that He might introduce us to God) being indeed put to death in the flesh, but raised to life by the Spirit:

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

In this was the love of God manifested towards us, that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

So that all who dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

The sheep

Then saith Jesus unto them, Ye will all take offence 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 unto them, Ye will all of you be made to offend on my account this night; for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered:

Behold, the time is coming, and is even now come, that ye shall be dispersed every one his own way, and shall leave me alone: but I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

I will turn

And whosoever shall give to one of these mean persons but a cup of cold water to drink, as my disciple, I assure you, he shall not lose his reward.

See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I tell you, that their angels in heaven do continually appear in the presence of my father, who is in heaven:

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

It were better for him that a milstone were hung about his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to offend.

And they said, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus answered, I have told you that I am He: if therefore ye seek me, let these go their way:

General references

but how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, which say that thus it must be?

saying, the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be put to death, and be raised again the third day.

Was not the Messiah to suffer these things, and so to enter into his glory?