In the gospel of Matthew, chapter 23, verse 35; our Lord Jesus Christ said, speaking to the people of Jerusalem: “Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.” Matthew 23:34-35 Many have questioned this declaration of our Lord, from the most sceptics, by saying that Jesus committed a mistake in his humanity, confusing the name of the prophet. Others attribute this declaration to a copyist’s mistake, by saying that he confused the name Berechiah (Zachariah 1:1), with Jehoiada (2Chronicles 24:20), and that in fact, our Lord Jesus was speaking of the son of the High Priest, Zechariah who was stoned to death by Jehoash, King of Judah, in the court of the
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