Zechariah 13:6

And they will say to him, “What are these scars on your back?” And he will say, “The scars which I received in the house of my friends.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Each will say, “I am not a prophet, a tiller of the ground am I, for the ground is my possession from my youth.”

7Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who stands near to me, says the Lord of hosts. I will strike the shepherd so that the sheep may be scattered, I will turn my hand against the little ones.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:16For dogs are round about me, a band of knaves encircles me, gnawing my hands and my feet.

John 18:35“Do you take me for a Jew?” was Pilate’s answer. “It is your own nation and the chief priests who have given you up to me. What have you done?”

Revelation 13:16High and low, rich and poor, free and enslaved – it causes a brand to be put on the right hand or on the forehead of every one of them,

Matthew Henry on Zechariah 13:2-7

Evangelical Predictions; The Destruction of False Prophets. ( b. c. 500.) 1 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. 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith 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. 3 And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy,… Read the whole commentary →

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