Zechariah 13 · The Lantern

An End to Idolatry

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

And it shall happen in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

And it shall happen, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that fathered him shall say to him, You shall not live; for you speak lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that fathered him shall thrust him through when he prophesies.

And it shall happen in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he has prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:

But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

And one shall say to him, What are these wounds in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. [Zechariah 13:7] But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

If there is anyone who, when he reads Moses, murmurs against him, and the law which has been written according to the letter is displeasing to him because it seems incoherent in many things, Moses shows him the rock, which is Christ, and leads him to it that he may drink from it and quench his thirst.

I will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered. Of this passage also the Lord made mention at the time of his Passion, applying it to himself when he was on the point of being betrayed.

And it shall happen, that in all the land, says the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.

Zechariah13

An End to Idolatry

The Shepherd Struck, the Sheep Scattered