Zacarías 11:11

11 Y fue roto aquel día; así los afligidos del rebaño que me observaban, conocieron que era la palabra del SEÑOR.

Zacarías 11:11 Meaning and Commentary

Zechariah 11:11

And it was broken in that day
In right, the day Christ died; apparently, when the Gospel, the substance of it, was removed; and, in fact, at the time of Jerusalem's destruction: and so the poor of the flock; (See Gill on Zechariah 11:7): that waited upon me;
as servants on their masters; as clients on their patron; as beggars at the door for alms; as attendants on the worship of God, for the manifestations of himself, for the performance of promises, and for answers of prayer: or "observed me" ^F8; what he said and did, his word, and his ordinances; what he abolished, and what he instituted: knew that it [was] the word of the Lord;
either that Christ the Shepherd was the essential Word of the Lord; or that the prophecies concerning the destruction of the Jews, their civil and ecclesiastical state, were the word and decree of God now fulfilled; or that the Gospel taken from them is the word of the Lord, which he is the author of; his grace is the matter and substance of; and which he speaks by his ministers; and may be known by the matter and efficacy of it; by the refreshment and comfort it gives; by its leading souls to Christ; and by the harmony, agreement, and uniformity of its doctrines.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (yta Myrmvh) "qui observabant me", Burkius.

Zacarías 11:11 In-Context

9 Entonces dije: No os apacentaré más. La que ha de morir, que muera; y la que ha de ser destruida, que sea destruida; y las que queden, cómanse la carne unas a otras.

10 Y tomé mi cayado Gracia y lo quebré para romper el pacto que yo había hecho con todos los pueblos.

11 Y fue roto aquel día; así los afligidos del rebaño que me observaban, conocieron que era la palabra del SEÑOR.

12 Y les dije: Si os parece bien, dadme mi paga; y si no, dejadla. Y pesaron como mi salario treinta piezas de plata.

13 Entonces el SEÑOR me dijo: Arrójalo al alfarero (ese magnífico precio con que me valoraron). Tomé pues, las treinta piezas de plata y las arrojé al alfarero en la casa del SEÑOR.

Footnotes

• [a] Otra posible lectura es, los mercaderes de ovejas