Matthew Poole and continuators on Zechariah 12:10

10 And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem , the spirit of grace , and of supplications , and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced , and they shall mourn for him , as one mourneth for his onely son , and shall be in bitterness for him , as one that is in bitterness for his first-born .

God the Father, so Acts 2.17, 18. and Isa. 44.3.

In plentiful measures, as a plentiful rain is poured forth on a thirsty ground; this was fulfilled on Christ's Exaltation, when he received gifts for men, and being glorified, gave the Spirit, sent the Comforter to his Disciples and Believers, this is dayly performed to the Children of God, and will be continually performed till we all are made perfect, and are brought to be with Christ for ever.

On some of that Royal Family, or Typically considered 'tis the whole Family of Christ, his House, who was the seed of David, and who is called David their King, Ezek. 37.24. Hos. 3.5.

Literally understood it was fulfilled extraordinarily, Act. 2.4, 5. and no doubt in the ordinary manner, to many of whom no mention is made▪ mystically the Inhabitants of Jerusalem are all the Members of Christ, all believers of all ages.

Which is fountain of all Graces in us, and which makes us lovely in the eye of our God, Grace to purifie us, and to beautifie us, that God may delight in us.

Or Prayer, which is an early, inseperable Fruit of the Spirit of Grace by the Spirit, we cry, Abba Father, and Rom. 8.26. and are helpt to perform this Duty.

All those who have received this Spirit

with an eye of Faith, and turn to Christ, love, obey, and wait for him.

Every one of us by our sins pierced him, but many of the Jews nailed him to the Cross, and actually murthered the Lord of Life. This, as foretold, so was very punctually fulfil'd and recorded in the account of his Death given by John 19.34, 35▪ and 37. this hath then a particular respect to the Jews, though not confin'd to them.

Grieve, and heartily lament the crucifying the Lord Jesus Christ, not only as the sinful cruel act of their Fathers, but as that in which their sins had a great share.

With a very great and deep, with a long and continued sorrow, with an unfeigned and real sorrow, such as is the sorrow of a Father in the Death of an onely Son; they shall retain it inwardly, and express it outwardly, as in the Funeral Mournings on such occasions.

This speaks the inwardest affection of the Mourner, there may be tears in some cases without grief, or bitterness in the Spirit; but here both are join'd, true Repentance will bitterly lament the sins which brought sorrows and shame upon our Lord.

This bitterness compared to the grief of one who loseth his first-born, to confirm and illustrate what he had just before spoken of Christians mourning for Christ.

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