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, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
• Jer 33:15“In those days, and at that time, I will cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up to David; and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land.
• Jer 23:5“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
• Isa 4:2In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
• Isa 11:1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
• Isa 53:2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
• Zech 4:6–9Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
• Acts 17:31because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
• Eph 2:20–22being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
• Mic 5:5He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.
• 1 Cor 3:9For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
• John 2:19–21Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
• Matt 16:18I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
• Ps 80:15–17the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.
• Mark 15:39When the centurion, who stood by opposite him, saw that he cried out like this and breathed his last, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God!”
• Acts 13:38Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,
• Zech 13:7“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.
• Matt 26:61and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”
• Isa 32:1–2Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.
• Heb 3:3–4For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, because he who built the house has more honor than the house.
• Zech 8:9Yahweh of Armies says: “Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of Yahweh of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
• Heb 7:4Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.
• Luke 1:78because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us,
• Mark 15:29Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,
• Ezra 3:10When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.
• Ezra 3:8Now in the second year of their coming to God’s house at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to have the oversight of the work of Yahweh’s house.
• John 1:45Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
• Heb 7:24But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
• Mark 14:58“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.’”
• Heb 8:3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
• Heb 10:12but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God;
• John 19:5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
• 1 Pet 2:4–5coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

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