Now there is a change of subject. The time will come when God will put in motion these events.
Here is the event on which all the good things prophesied by Zechariah rest; here is the foundation of the new temple, the church of God; here is the victory over every enemy of the church. God’s hand of mercy – not of justice: that was in the form of a sword laid on Christ – will be laid on the little ones, on Christ vulnerable little children, who are small in their own estimation (Gill). These will be gathered with his arms and carried in his bosom (Isaiah 40:11).