Holy Prophet Zechariah

Life

Zechariah was the eleventh of the minor prophets. Together with the prophet Haggai he encouraged Prince Zerubbabel to rebuild the Jerusalem temple. He prophesied the solemn entrance of Christ into Jerusalem on a donkey, the foal of an ass; (Zechariah 9:9) and Judas's betrayal for thirty pieces of silver: and they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver; (Zechariah 11:12) and the flight of the apostles from Christ at the time of His passion: I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. (Zechariah 13:7) The prophet Zechariah is called "of the Sickle," because in a vision he saw a sickle descending from heaven to mow down the unrighteous, especially thieves and blasphemers of God's name. He reposed in the last year of the reign of Darius Hystaspes, around the year 520 before Christ.