◄ Zechariah 13:5 ►
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Good News Translation
Instead, he will say, 'I am not a prophet. I am a farmer--I have farmed the land all my life.'

New Revised Standard Version
but each of them will say, “I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the soil; for the land has been my possession since my youth.”

Contemporary English Version
Instead, they will say, "I'm no prophet. I've been a farmer all my life."

New American Bible
but each will say, “I am not a prophet. I am a tiller of the soil, for I have owned land since my youth.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my example from my youth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my example from my youth.

I am no.

Amos 7:14 But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.

Acts 19:17-20 And this became known to all the Jews and the Gentiles that dwelt a Ephesus. And fear fell on them all: and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified. . . .

Context
An End to Idolatry
…4And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be confounded, every one by his own vision, when he shall prophesy, neither shall they be clad with a garment of sackcloth, to deceive: 5But he shall say: I am no prophet, I am a husbandman: for Adam is my example from my youth.6And they shall say to him: What are these wounds in the midst of thy hands? And he shall say: With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved me.…
Cross References
Amos 7:14
But prophesy not again any more in Bethel: because it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom.

Zechariah 13:6
And they shall say to him: What are these wounds in the midst of thy hands? And he shall say: With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved me.

Zechariah 13:4
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