Zechariah: 12:10-11 "And I will pour on the house of David
and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then
they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one
mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. 11
"In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the
mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo."
Here, it is foretold that Christ should be pierced, and this
scripture is quoted as that which was fulfilled when Christ’s side was pierced
upon the cross (John 19:36-37 "36 For these things were done that the
Scripture should be fulfilled, "Not one of His bones shall be
broken." 37 And again another Scripture says, "They shall look on Him
whom they pierced.)
He is spoken of as one whom we have pierced; it is spoken
primarily of the Jews, who persecuted him to death (and we find that those who
pierced him are distinguished from the other kindreds of the earth that shall
wail because of him, (Rev. 1:7); yet it is true of us all as sinners, we have
pierced Christ, inasmuch as our sins were the cause of his death, for he was
wounded for our transgressions, and they are the grief of his soul; he is
broken with the whorish hearts of sinners, who therefore are said to crucify
him afresh and put him to open shame.
Those that truly repent of sin look upon Christ as one whom
they have pierced, who was pierced for their sins and is pierced by them; and
this engages them to look unto him, as those that are deeply concerned for
him.
This is the effect of their looking to Christ; it makes them
mourn. This was particularly fulfilled
in those to whom Peter preached Christ crucified, when they heard it those who
had had a hand in piercing him were pricked to the heart, and cried out, What
shall we do”?
It is fulfilled in all those who sorrow for sin after a godly
sort; they look to Christ, and mourn for him, not so much for his sufferings as
for their own sins that procured them.
Note, The genuine sorrows of a penitent soul flow from the believing
sight of a pierced Saviour.
(Matthew Henry Commentary
