Zechariah 6:12

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Summary

And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD:

Behold

Whose

Grow up out of his place

General references

Leviticus 8:9

Acts 7:47

Bible References

Behold

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.

And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.

And when the captain, who was near, saw how he gave up his spirit, he said, Truly this man was a son of God.

Then Jesus came out with the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them, Here is the man!

And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.

Now see how great this man was, to whom our father Abraham gave a tenth part of what he had got in the fight.

Now every high priest is given authority to take to God the things which are given and to make offerings; so that it is necessary for this man, like them, to have something for an offering.

But when Jesus had made one offering for sins for ever, he took his place at the right hand of God;

Whose

Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.

Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.

And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.

For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.

In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.

Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

Grow up out of his place

This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.

But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.

He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.

And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days,

And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days.

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.

Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,

And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.

To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;

General references

And on his head he put the head-dress, and in front of the head-dress the plate of gold, the holy crown, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

But Solomon was the builder of his house.