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The One they have pierced
Zechariah foresaw Jerusalem looking on one whom they had pierced and mourning. John applied the words to the spear thrust at the cross, and Revelation echoes them for Christ's return.
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New TestamentJohn 19:37Open this recordRead the earlier witness
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. Read the later witness
and, as another scripture says, “They will look on the one they have pierced.” Why FaithGraph draws this line
John 19:37 quotes Zechariah 12:10.
John cites a second Scripture for the piercing of Jesus' side: they will look on the one they have pierced.
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