Zechariah 13:1-6 "Zeal of a Holy Nation"

vv. 1-2 spiritual cleansing
vv. 2-6 subsequent zeal
v. 1 “in that day” (vv. 2, 4) - the relation between chap 12:10-14 and chap 13 is necessary to understand. You might read some suggesting a chapter break, but that gives the impression of two distinct events; that would be misleading; the events are chronological. Chap 13 continues to record the effects of Yahweh pouring out the HS. The continuity is evident by the phrase “in that day” and groups addressed, “on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem” (12:10). The same people, the same subject, and the same time are in view in both chapters.
Verse 6 does not refer to Messiah:
First, Jesus was not wounded between his arms with several wounds. His wounds were in his hands and feet and the spear in his side.
Two, he was not wounded in the house of his friends but on a Roman cross.
Three, Jesus never denied he was a prophet, that is, he never denied what Scripture said about him . . . he was/is a prophet.
Four, Jesus never claimed to be a cultivator of the ground.
Five, Jesus did not and would not claim to be a slave from youth.
2 Feb 25