.... 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.”  “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication (Zechariah 12:10b, 10a). As I said previously,   the Old testament contains two pictures of Messiah, the conquering Messiah,  and the suffering Servant.  The latter picture contains His being forsaken by God at the moment of death (Psalm 22:1; Matthew 27:46); His hands and feet being pierced in a clear picture of  crucifixion, (Psalm 22:14- 18; Zechariah 13:a). It also contains  the rejection of Him and His substitutionary salvation  (Isaiah 53:3, 5; John 1:11; 1 Peter 3:18).  This morning's scripture however prophecies the eventual restoration of the Jew to their Messiah.  

There's an oblique reference here to both the deity and humanity of Christ, and even to what theologians call Trinity. In particular, it's the Lord who is speaking, and they look on “Me” (i.e. 'Me' is the Lord) “whom they have pierced” in My human hands and feet. Finally  I will pour out the “Spirit” .....  Perhaps it was from passages like this, that Jesus first began to understand that He was God in the flesh. You also have to wonder if He was thinking of this passage when He told  “Blessed are those who morn.”  He would surly have known that there is a godly sorrow that leads to repentance (Matthew 5:4; 2 Corinthians 7:10).

It makes sense to link the following two verses in the next chapter to this morning's Scripture. "Someone will say to him, 'What are these injuries to your hands?' He will reply, 'those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.  'Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the Man who is My Companion,' says the LORD of hosts. 'Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered” (13; 6, 7 JKV,  LXX).  Jesus knew well that He is the Good Shepherd, God's Companion, God's equal, the One who gave His life for us sheep, we who have gone astray (John 10:11; John 5:18; Isaiah 53:6a, b)! And He calls us His friends when we receive the  “Spirit of grace and supplication.” Indeed “He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.  But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name” (John 1:11, 12).  His own will receive Him however, for  Paul writes “I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness”  (Romans 11:11, 12)?  Their fullness of course,  is what is prophesied in this morning's scripture.

Father, forgive us for our ignorance of the mystery that “blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And  that all Israel will be saved.”  Help us Lord to marvel Lord at the depth of Your wisdom and knowledge. Your ways ways past finding out, and You judgments unsearchable. (Romans 11:25, 26,  33). We repent Lord of every last trace of antisemitism, and we choose to obey You command  to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.  And we give You praise and glory in Jesus Name Amen