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Instead he will say, “I am not a prophet. I have been a tiller of the soil since my youth, when a man bought me.” Someone will ask him, “What are these wounds on your body?”[a] He will reply, “I received these wounds in the house of my friends.”

Strike the Shepherd, and the Sheep Will Be Scattered

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
    and against the man who is my associate, declares the Lord of Armies.
    Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered,
    and I will turn my hand against the little ones.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 13:6 Heathen priests gashed themselves as part of their frenzied prayers.
  2. Zechariah 13:7 Or but I will turn my hand back to the little ones