“Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.”
Zechariah 12:10
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Connection with the offering of Isaac
The Hebrew for only child here is yachid (H3173), the one and only. It is the word used of Isaac as Abraham's only son, and Judges uses it of Jephthah's daughter: "She was his only child" (Judges 11:34). Zechariah applies it to the grief of looking on the pierced One.
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Every eye will see him, even those who pierced him
“Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.”
They will look on the one they have pierced
“And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.””
'They will look on the one they have pierced.' Zechariah foresaw the moment a Roman soldier's spear proved what the crowd refused to believe.
“And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.””
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