Zaccaria 13:5

La Riveduta Bibbia

E ognuno d’essi dirà: "Io non son profeta; sono un coltivatore del suolo; qualcuno mi comprò fin dalla mia giovinezza".

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
Ma ognuno dir: "Io non sono profeta, sono un agricoltore; qualcuno mi ha insegnato ad allevare il bestiame fin dalla mia giovinezza"

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E ciascun di loro dir�: Io non son profeta, io son lavorator di terra; perciocch� altri mi ha fatto andar dietro al bestiame fin dalla mia giovanezza.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am no: Amos 7:14, Acts 19:17-20

Reciprocal: Genesis 46:32 - shepherds 1 Kings 19:19 - he with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But he shall say, I [am] no prophet,.... That he is not of the Romish clergy, or of any of their religious orders, having laid aside his habit:

I [am] an husbandman; he shall put on the habit of a husbandman, and work for his bread; for he will not be able to support himself, as before, with the sale of pardons and indulgences, and by praying souls out of purgatory; for no man hereafter will buy of his merchandise,

Revelation 18:11 and he will be ashamed of his former calling and traffic, and will not own that he was ever concerned therein; but will affirm that he was never of the Romish clergy, but always a layman, and employed in husbandry:

for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth; he will say he was brought up to husbandry, or in some mechanic business, from his youth, and never was in any convent or monastery, or of any religious order: it may be rendered, "for man made me to work from my youth" u; and is not to be restrained to keeping cattle, or any particular employment.

u הקנני "fecerunt me operari", Noldius; "homo operari fecit me", De Dieu, Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall say - Repudiating his former claims, “I am a husbandman:” for a man hath taught me from my youth.” There was no room then for his having been a false prophet, since he had had from his youth one simple unlettered occupation, as Amos said truly of himself; “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son: but I was an herdsman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit” Amos 7:14. The prophet does not approve the lie, any more than our Lord did the injustice of the “unjust steward.” Our Lord contrasted the wisdom “in their generation” of a bad man for his ends, with the unwisdom of “the children of light,” who took no pains to secure their God. Zechariah pictures vividly, how people would anyhow rid themselves of all suspicion of false prophesying.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Zechariah 13:5. But he shall say, I am no prophet — This must be the case of a false prophet or diviner, who had been obliged to give up his infamous practice, and become even a labourer in the land. But having been known to be such, he is questioned by the people to see if he still were addicted in heart to the same practices. He declares he is no prophet, neither true nor false; that he is now a husbandman, and was brought up a herdsman.