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Zachariah son of Barachiah (Zachariou huiou Barachiou). Broadus gives well the various alternatives in understanding and explaining the presence of “son of Barachiah” here which is not in Luk 11:51. The usual explanation is that the reference is to Zachariah the son of Jehoiada the priest who was slain in the court of the temple (2Ch 24:20.). How the words, “son of Barachiah,” got into Matthew we do not know. A half-dozen possibilities can be suggested. In the case of Abel a reckoning for the shedding of his blood was foretold (Gen 4:10) and the same thing was true of the slaying of Zachariah (2Ch 24:22).