Zechariah 13:6
KJV
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.
MSG
And if someone says, ‘And so where did you get that black eye?’ they’ll say, ‘I ran into a door at a friend’s house.’
This is a prophecy of Christ’s nail-printed hands as the next verse (Zech. 13:7) is directly quoted by Jesus the night before his crucifixion (Mat. 26:31, Mark 14:27). Christ was buried in a garden-tomb owned by at least one of his friends as recorded in scripture: Joseph of Arimathæa (John 19:41, Mat 27:57-60). The NET’s footnote for this verse reads: Pagan prophets were often self-lacerated for reasons not entirely clear, so this false prophet betrays himself as such by these graphic and ineradicable marks.
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