Zechariah 13:7

"One will say to him, ‘What are these wounds between your arms?’ Then he will answer, ‘Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.’"

Key Reflection

This verse foreshadows Jesus' crucifixion, where his disciples might ask about his wounds, and he will remind them of his sacrifice for sin. The "house of my friends" likely alludes to the betrayal by fellow Jews, highlighting the painful contrast between friend and foe in this context.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Awake, O sword -So Jeremiah apostrophises the sword, “O thou sword of the Lord, when wilt thou be quiet?”Jeremiah 47:6. The prophets express what “will be,” by a command that it should be; “Make the heart of this people heavy”Isaiah 6:10. But by this command he signifies that human malice, acting freely, could do no more than His “Hand and” His “counsel determined before to be done”Acts 4:28. The envy and hatred of Satan, the blind fury of the chief priests, the contempt of Herod, the guilty cowardice of Pilate, freely accomplished that Death, which God had before decreed for the salvation of the world.

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