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Zechariah chapter 12 verse 10 and I will pour out on the house of David

in the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy so that when they

look on me on him whom they have pierced they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a firstborn

There's a ton we can talk about here that's going on in

Zachariah and in the history of God's people in the Old Testament.

What I want to draw your attention to by reading

Zachariah 12, 10, and us praying according to it

is what John writes in John Chapter 19,

verse 37, the crucifixion as he looks back to the Old Testament at the

crucifixion of Jesus he looks back to the Old Testament and he quotes from

Zakariah chapter 12 verse 10 and he talks about how they will look on him

whom they have pierced he quotes from this verse to talk about Jesus. So knowing that quotation in John Chapter 19

verse 37 now let me read this verse one more time and as I do just consider how Jesus prophesied centuries before how Jesus

came to die to be pierced in the side on a cross according to prophecy centuries before.

When Zacharias said, I will pour out on the House of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a spirit of grace, and please for mercy so that when they look on me on him whom they have

pierced they shall mourn for him as one mourns for an only child and weep bitterly over him as one weeps over a firstborn.

Let's pray. Jesus, we praise you.

We exalt you, we worship you, we glorify you as we consider one of many different promises given, words spoken centuries

before you even came about how you would be born, how and where you would live, and how you would die,

where you would die, what would happen when you chose willingly according to the will of the father to go to

the cross.

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