Origen

Origen (c.e. 185-254) was a scholar and early Christian theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, philosophical theology, preaching, and spirituality written in Greek.

Origen suggested because of accounts from others that the Zechariah mentioned in Matthew 23:35 who was killed between the temple and the altar may be the father of John the Baptist. (Reimund Bieringer, The Corinthian Correspondence, page 497, footnote 20). In Fact, he was emphatic that Zechariah was killed by the scribes and Pharisees and not by Herod. Several Byzantine authors do not connect the prophet of 2 Chronicles 24 the Zachariah of Matthew 23.35