Zechariah 6:12

The crowned Joshua represents 'the Branch,' who will grow up and build the Lord's temple. This is a messianic promise fulfilled in Jesus, who builds the true temple, His church.

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• Zech 3:8Hear now, O high priest Joshua, you and your companions seated before you, who are indeed a sign. For behold, I am going to bring My servant, the Branch.
• Jer 33:15In those days and at that time I will cause to sprout for David a righteous Branch, and He will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
• Jer 23:5Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness in the land.
• Isa 4:2On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
• Isa 11:1Then a shoot will spring up from the stump of Jesse, and a Branch from his roots will bear fruit.
• Isa 53:2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
• Zech 4:6–9So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Acts 17:31For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
• Eph 2:20–22built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
• Mic 5:5And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
• John 2:19–21Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
• Matt 16:18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
• Ps 80:15–17the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.
• Mark 15:39When the centurion standing there in front of Jesus saw how He had breathed His last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
• Acts 13:38Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.
• Zech 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
• Matt 26:61and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
• Isa 32:1–2Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.
• Heb 3:3–4For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.
• Zech 8:9This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.
• Heb 7:4Consider how great Melchizedek was: Even the patriarch Abraham gave him a tenth of the plunder.
• Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
• Mark 15:29And those who passed by heaped abuse on Him, shaking their heads and saying, “Aha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,
• Ezra 3:10When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.
• Ezra 3:8In the second month of the second year after they had arrived at the house of God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their associates including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began the work. They appointed Levites twenty years of age or older to supervise the construction of the house of the LORD.
• John 1:45Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• Heb 7:24But because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood.
• Mark 14:58“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
• Heb 8:3And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.
• Heb 10:12But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
• John 19:5When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
• 1 Pet 2:4–5As you come to Him, the living stone, rejected by men but chosen and precious in God’s sight,

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