Mourning for the One They Pierced

¹⁰ “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit^[a](A) of grace and supplication.^(B) They will look on^[b] me, the one they have pierced,^(C) and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,^(D) and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.^(E)

¹⁰ “What should we do then?”^(A) the crowd asked.

¹² Even tax collectors came to be baptized.^(A) “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”

¹⁴ Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?”

He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely^(A)—be content with your pay.”

⁸ When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: