Watchman Press Reviewed Scripture Study
They Shall Look on Him Whom They Pierced
Zechariah 12:10 ↔ John 19:37
Scripture Text
Read the Relationship in Young’s Literal Translation
Zechariah 12:10
10 And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.
John 19:37
37 and again another Writing saith, 'They shall look to him whom they did pierce.'
Editorial Analysis
Watchman Press Review
The following classifications and notes are reviewed Watchman Press editorial analysis. They are separate from the biblical text and from the raw cross-reference dataset.
They Shall Look on Him Whom They Pierced
John applies Zechariah's pierced-one language to Jesus after the spear thrust at the crucifixion.
John identifies the crucified Jesus with the pierced figure in Zechariah and presents the physical piercing as part of the scriptural witness to His death.
Evidence / source note
Project sources reviewed: Young's Literal Translation, the 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and the JPS 1917 Tanakh.
They Shall Look on Him Whom They Pierced
John introduces the line as another Scripture that speaks to what occurred at the cross.
The Gospel gives the relationship directly, allowing the prophetic text to interpret the crucifixion event.
Evidence / source note
Project sources reviewed: Young's Literal Translation, the 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and the JPS 1917 Tanakh.
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