Matthew 26:31

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then Jesus said [to His disciples], “All of you will have doubts about me tonight, for it is written [Zech. 13:7], ‘I will strike down the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered everywhere.’

Cross References

Matthew 11:6

The person who does not find an occasion for having doubts about my identity is fortunate indeed.”

Matthew 26:24

The Son of man is going [to die], but it is too bad for that person through whom the Son of man is turned over [to the Jewish leaders]! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 26:56

But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all of His disciples left Him and ran away.

John 16:32

Look, the time is coming --- yes, it is already here --- when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and will leave me [all] alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.