Zechariah 13:5-7

New Life Version

⁵ But he will say, ‘I am not a man who speaks for God. I am a farmer. A man sold me as a servant when I was young.’ ⁶ If someone asks him, ‘What are these sores on your back?’ he will answer, ‘They are the sores I received in the house of my friends.’

The Shepherd Who Saves

⁷ “Wake up, O sword, against My shepherd and against the man who is close to Me,” says the Lord of All. “Kill the shepherd, and the sheep will go everywhere. And I will turn My hand against the little ones.