The Passion according to Zechariah
You have heard it said that Jesus can be found on every page of the Old Testament. The following compilation reading, taken from the book of Zechariah, shows how our fathers put this belief into practice. This may be read during Holy Week—either on Holy Monday or on Palm Sunday (in place of Exodus 16).
(More or this can be found on the blog for The Lutheran Missal.)
(God the Father)
Thus says the LORD God: “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst. Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, the Mountain of the LORD of hosts, the Holy Mountain. The city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. Behold, I will save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west; I will bring them back, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people and I will be their God, in truth and righteousness. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey. He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion shall be ‘from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth,’” says the LORD.
(God the Son)
Then I said to them, “If it is agreeable to you, give Me My wages; and if not, refrain.” So they weighed out for My wages thirty pieces of silver—that princely price they set on Me. Then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. And one will say to Him, “What are these wounds between Your arms?” Then He will answer, “Those with which I was wounded in the house of My friends.”
(God the Father)
“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the Man who is My Companion,” says the LORD of hosts. “Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.” It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light; the lights will diminish. It shall be one day which is known to the LORD—neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen that it will be light. And in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, and the LORD shall be King over all the earth.