Zacharias sonne of Barachias, the sonne of Addo the pro∣phet, beganne to prophesie two moneths after Aggeus; that is, in the eight moneth of the second yeere of Darius. chap. 1. Zachar.
There were sundry Zacharies, one, the sonne of Ioiada, an∣other, the sonne of Barachias, an other, the father of saint Iohn the Baptist. Whereupon ariseth a great controuersie amon∣gest the learned, which of all these was that Zacharie whom the Iewes (as Christ chargeth them in the 23. of Mathew) mur∣dered betweene the temple and the altar. Hier. in Matt. lib. 4. cap. 23. prope finem.
Zacharias after hee had prophecied many things of Ierusa∣lem, and animated the people to builde the temple, and had al∣so reprooued the sluggishnesse of the prophets and priests; hee died in his decrepite age, and was buried with Aggeus. Epi∣phanius.