A message the Lord God
revealed to Zechariah the prophet
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. And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith 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.-Zechariah 13:7-9***After Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, finished speaking about his upcoming crucifixion to his 12 disciples, and after Judas Iscariot the disciple and apostle left to betray Jesus, Jesus explained to his remaining 11 disciples and apostles that they would soon scatter. Jesus quoted some of the words that Zechariah the prophet received from the Lord God over 400 years earlier, when many of the Israelites from Jerusalem and the rest of Judah, the southern nation in the Promised Land, were living in Judah and Jerusalem again after returning from Babylonian (Chaldean) exile and captivity.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 20:1-29, 27:12-23, Deuteronomy 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua 1:1-4:24, 23:1-24:33, Judges 1:1-2:23, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 10:1-29:30, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Zechariah, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Scriptures: Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.--Matthew 26:31
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.-Mark 14:27