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  • Lazarus – Death and Resurrection

    Lazarus – Death and Resurrection

    Death and Resurrection
    Hosea 13:4 I have been the Lord your God
    ever since the land of Egypt;
    you know no God but me,
    and no Savior exists besides me.
    5 I knew you in the wilderness,
    in the land of drought.

    “Moses didn’t give you bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. God’s bread is the man who comes from heaven and gives life to the world.”

    Yeshua told them, “I am the bread of life…

    John 6:32b,34a NOG

    The Death and Resurrection of Lazarus

    John has already introduced us to those Jesus loves. Lazarus – HELP from the grave.

    topical map of Israel from sea of Galilee, valley of the Jordan

    Now after a considerable walk from somewhere beyond Judea, Jesus arrives in Bethany.

    Jesus walks into a scene of death visited by mourners who loved Lazarus but also religious officials from Jerusalem who sought to accuse their Messiah of blasphemy for previous signs on the Sabbath.

    As reminder of both heavy hearts and hard hearts in the crowds:

    John 6:

    30 So they said to him, ‘What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing?

    … 40 My Father wants all those who see the Son and believe in him to have eternal life. He wants me to bring them back to life on the last day.”

    John 11

    17 When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem (less than two miles away).

    He arrives at the funeral of Lazarus. No talk of death and resurrection here, just wailing and mourning his loss.

    19 Many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother. When Martha heard that Yeshua was coming, she went to meet him.

    “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask him.”

    Lord God

    Ἰησοῦν κύριε Iēsous kyrios – Jesus Lord

    Martha addresses their Messiah and friend.

    “I know that God, theos in greek referring to any gods, but for Jews and followers of Christ (a Greek word for Messiah), Martha’s confidence in God includes a mysterious relationship between this Son of Man and the HOLY SPIRIT of the LORD God!

    “God with”ho with the Holy Spirit, the very breath of life which hovered over creation.

    Gen 1:2
    וְהָאָרֶץ הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ וְחֹשֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵי תְהֹום וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים מְרַחֶפֶת עַל־פְּנֵי הַמָּֽיִם׃

    “Who are you with,” we would ask?

    Jesus, God with us, frequently answered religious critics with personally relational replies like,

    “God is spirit, and those G3588 who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

    Now, out of compassion for a deceased friend and love for the family of Lazarus, the Messiah Jesus returns to Judea with nothing more to prove. (For the Lord had already raised others from death and healed some near to death of likely life-ending ailments to a cleansing of the flesh with life!)

    Death and Resurrection

    Death and resurrection always have connection. Will you rise again from the grave?

    For Jesus’ friend Lazarus, temporary restoration of health and life in his case. Yet all understand judgment by the Lord God requires a raising of the spirit of your soul to life.

    After flesh fails and bones decay to dust and ashes will the Lord also breathe life into a new body of each soul?

    “..even now I know that God will give you whatever you ask him.”

    23 Yeshua told Martha, “Your brother will come back to life.”

    24 Martha answered Yeshua, “I know that he’ll come back to life on the last day, when everyone will come back to life.”

    25 Yeshua said to her,

    “I am the one who brings people back to life, and I am life itself. Those who believe in me will live even if they die. Everyone who lives and believes in me will never die.

    The Messiah of God!

    Do you believe that?”

    Pause to think:

    “I am life itself!” Those who believe in Jesus ( יְהוֹשׁוּעַ ) will live even though we die. The Lord God IS our Salvation!

    27 Martha said to him, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who was expected to come into the world.”

    She has said this – that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God – with witnesses surrounding her home — Jews who believe and Jews looking for excuse to kill Jesus.

    … she went away and called Mary her sister, saying secretly,

    “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

    When Mary heard this she sprang to her feet and went to him.

    30 (Yeshua had not yet come into the village but was still where Martha had met him.) The Jews who were comforting Mary in the house saw her get up quickly and leave. So they followed her…

    The Messiah approaching death and resurrection

    Compelling drama! – with much expectation.

    Those who loved this family and mourned the loss of Lazarus would not have expected Mary’s sudden joy. Rather, they followed her to continue their expected public mouring for the death of a fellow Jew.

    Imagine their surprise at the scene about to unfold.

    33 When Yeshua saw her crying, and the Jews who were crying with her, he was deeply moved and troubled.

    34 So Yeshua asked, “Where did you put Lazarus?”

    They answered him, “Lord, come and see.”

    35 Yeshua cried.

    36 The Jews said, “See how much Yeshua loved him.”

    An appropriate witness of the true personal compassion of the Lord Jesus. Yet listen to the dissent of hardened hearts.

    37 But some of the Jews asked, “Couldn’t this man who gave a blind man sight keep Lazarus from dying?”

    Jesus hears our complaints and the Messiah hears our kind words. All those comments of the crowds did not matter to the Son of Man sent to this place to weep – sent here to suffer for our sins.

    38 Deeply moved again, Yeshua went to the tomb.

    It was a cave with a stone covering the entrance.

    39 Yeshua said, “Take the stone away.”

    To be continued...

  • If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly

    If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly

    The Messiah at Festivals

    So what does the Messiah of Israel do at festivals and feasts? How does the Messiah lead followers to worship the Lord our God, our Father in heaven?

    It was the Feast of Hanukkah at Yerushalayim.

    John 10:22 Hebrew Names Version

    Yeshua mashiyach

    Just a reminder to Christians of this 21st century, Jesus was Jewish.

    Yeshua, from Ἰησοῦς in Greek, Iēsous from יְהוֹשׁוּעַ Hebrew meaning Yĕhowshuwa` (Joshua or Jehoshua = “Jehovah is salvation”) in English: Jesus. (The One born to a Jewish mother, a virgin betrothed to a faithful Jew, Joseph son of Jacob {Matthew 1:16}.)

    The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

    Gospel of Matthew 1:1 KJV

    Although we have been following Jesus through the Gospel of John, for our understanding of the Messiah and His jewish upbringing as the Son of Man, we have just left some predictions of the Prophet Amos.

    Who better to ask about the Lord God in heaven than the one who came down from heaven, sent by God the Father?

    This is where we left off in the Good News from the Apostle John.

    above the cloudes of heaven a gate of the walled heavenly Jerusalem

    Jesus healed a man born blind, which has prompted much discussion and considerable controversy in Jerusalem.

    The Gatekeeper & the Shepherds – the Door

    John 9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

    Is this Man a Gate and the Door to heaven?

    44:1  וַיָּשֶׁב אֹתִי דֶּרֶךְ שַׁעַר הַמִּקְדָּשׁ הַֽחִיצֹון הַפֹּנֶה קָדִים וְהוּא סָגֽוּר׃
    44:2 וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלַי יְהוָה הַשַּׁעַר הַזֶּה סָגוּר יִהְיֶה לֹא יִפָּתֵחַ וְאִישׁ לֹא־יָבֹא בֹו כִּי יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵל בָּא בֹו וְהָיָה סָגֽוּר׃
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    Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut. The LORD said to me, “This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.

    Ezekiel 44:1-2 NASB

    “The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

    Ezekiel 45:19 NASB

    John 10:

    2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

    7 Yeshua emphasized, “I can guarantee this truth: I am the gate for the sheep.

    John 10:7 NOG

    Later Jesus will tell the Apostles to also be wary of these religious hired hands determined to devour all opposition.

    John tells us how Jerusalem’s religious leaders opposed the Messiah after Jesus healed a man blind from birth. But Jesus tells the crowds a parable against them.

    12 A hired hand isn’t a shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep. When he sees a wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and quickly runs away.

    John 10:11 NKJV

    19 Again the Jews were divided because of these words…

    After this, a most popular Messiah Jesus enters Jerusalem for a festival.

    Jewish festivals

    22 Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

    A brief overview:

    The Hebrew Civil Year began with Tishri [October]. At the Exodus the Ecclesiastical Year was made to begin with Abib [April], which, after the Captivity, was called also Nisan.- Hitchcock’s Topical Commentary

    “Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed.

    Deuteronomy 16:16 NASB

    But this minor feast (we now call the festival of lights) held importance to a Jerusalem which presumed to have purified and rededicated the Temple. In commemoration of the cleansing and re-dedication of the Temple after its pollution by Antiochus Epiphanes. –H.

    The Story Behind the Feast of Dedication

    Prior to the year 165 BC, the Jewish people in Judea were living under the rule of the Greek kings of Damascus. During this time Seleucid King Antiochus Epiphanes, the Greco-Syrian king, took control of the Temple in Jerusalem and forced the Jewish people to abandon their worship of God, their holy customs, and reading of the Torah. He made them bow down to the Greek gods. According to ancient records, King Antiochus IV defiled the Temple by sacrificing a pig on the altar and spilling its blood on the holy scrolls of Scripture.

    Source:

    Jerusalem’s crowed festival

    23 Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jews surrounded him and asked,

    “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

    25 “I did tell you and you don’t believe,” Jesus answered them.

    Do you believe His signs?

    Even in this day some will believe and come to faith through the Messiah, He IS the gate to salvation and the door to heaven. Others remain blind to truth.

    Jesus has already given several signs, proofs in various places of miracles only God could do. The most recent of these, of course, was giving a blind man sight right there in Jerusalem.

    “The works that I do in my Father’s name testify about me. But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.

    Who do you follow?

    Some preacher, a rabbi or teacher?

    None are the Son of God, the Shepherd of the chosen ones of God our Father.

    The Way to heaven

    27 My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

    28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

    Why would you doubt the authoritative gentle voice of the Shepherd at the door?

    If you believe in God Almighty our God and Father, do you not see His power and compassion in the Only Son, Shepherd of the chosen to enter into His Glory?

    Is Jesus your Lord and Shepherd?

    For His love and anointing must be clear to those who are no longer blind.

    Would you humbly turn from your sin to hear His gentle voice?

    “Follow Me.” “I am the way the truth and the life.” *

    29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

    A decision of life or death

    How many times can you recall that the LORD strikes down the one who sins?

    More times in scripture than we can recall.

    The LORD GOD IS ALMIGHTY! Fear only him, the LORD, the Existing One.

    • John the Baptist had testified of the Holy Spirit of God descending upon Jesus.
    • The Lord Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, gave sight to the blind. A Man of God thought to be from Nazareth asked men and women to follow Him.
    • Jesus, Son of Man as He referred to himself, showed signs and wonders to many.

    What is left for the Messiah to tell us?

    If we must follow Jesus, is He God in Person? – a “Son of Man” the very human Image of God (as a Son of His Father born to a woman)?

    For the LORD God is One and our decision to obey the LORD is a matter of eternal life or judgment and punishment of our soul in death.

    “I and My Father are one.”

    John 10:30 KJV

    Truth? or Blasphemy?

    31 Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.

    32 Jesus replied, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these works are you stoning me?”

    33 “We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you—being a man—make yourself God.”

    34 Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, I said, you are gods? If he called those whom the word of God came to ‘gods’—and the Scripture cannot be broken— do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?

    Jesus, Son of Man filled with the Holy Spirit of Almighty God! Once again the Lord confronts the hired hands of Herod, wolves luring the faithful away from the Shepherd, with Scripture and Truth.

    How can they refute what everyone has seen with their own eyes?

    37 “If I am not doing my Father’s works, don’t believe me…”

    You too have seen many signs and miracles. Those in addition to Jesus’ compassion and love for the lost who have sinned.

    A few repent seeking return to the safety of the Shepherd.

    38 “… But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”

    Jesus and God the Father are One! Jesus and the Holy Spirit of God are One!

    What was it Jesus told the Pharisee Nicodemus?

    “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

    John 3:21 NASB

    Jesus IS Spirit; Jesus IS Flesh!

    But those who will not bow down to the LORD God accuse the Son of Man of blasphemy. (Let the casual 21st c. reader understand the significance of blasphemy – a sin against God requiring death of the offender.)

    39 Then they were trying again to seize him, but he eluded their grasp.

    A return to the wilderness

    40 He went back across the Jordan River and stayed in the place where John first baptized people.

    41 Many people went to Yeshua. They said, “John didn’t perform any miracles, but everything John said about this man is true.” 42 Many people there believed in Yeshua.

    Truth

    The Apostle John has already revealed the Good News of the Messiah proven by many signs in many places.

    • And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
    • For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
    • “But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
    • “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
    • “You have sent to John [the baptist], and he has testified to the truth.
    • “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
    • “Which one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me?

    The One Truth & nothing but The Truth

    “I and the Father are One!”

    John 10:30 Strong’s: b) metaphorically, “union” and “concord,” e.g., Jhn 10:30; 11:52; 17:11, 21, 22; Rom 12:4, 5; Phl 1:27

    The Apostle John concludes his Gospel as follows:

    21:24 Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ μαθητὴς ὁ μαρτυρῶν περὶ τούτων καὶ γράψας ταῦτα καὶ οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἀληθὴς ἐστίν ἡ μαρτυρία αὐτοῦ

    This is the disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true.

    And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written.

    What other sign do you need to open your eyes to what Jesus plainly has said?

    I and the Father are One!

    NEXT: The Resurrection of Lazarus ... God-willing...
  • Amos the Seer: “I told you so (5x) – GOD showed me

    Amos the Seer: “I told you so (5x) – GOD showed me

    I told you so!

    Don’t we hate to hear it? While occupied in our own daily trespasses we stop up our ears to any who would warn of our sins: “Thus the Lord GOD showed me, and behold…”

    And to make things worse, in the day of our demise the seer such as Amos could well lament, “I told you so, but you refused to listen.”

    Amos 5:

    Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel…

    We’ve heard Amos previously warn:

    Those who turn justice into wormwood
    also throw righteousness to the ground.

    Now the seer shows signs he tells Israel’s leaders ‘the Lord GOD showed me.’

    Would a leader – a king, premier or president – dare ignore something that a seer [Amos] says the Lord God showed me?

    How could a priest serving a people pledged to God not hear Amos when he demonstrates ‘what the Lord God showed me?’

    Wailing in the streets

    16 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Lord,

    “There is wailing in all the plazas,
    And in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’

    … For I will pass through you,”
    Says the Lord.

    It is not as if the LORD leads them out of their troubles as before from Egypt through the wilderness and before Israel subduing her enemies in the promised land.

    Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord!
    What will the day of the Lord be for you?
    It will be darkness and not light.

    Amos 5:18 CSB

    The seer shows the fear of the LORD that will consume a man fleeing an enemy arrived safely at home, but there bitten by a snake.

    Are we not all prey of the serpent of eden without the Lord God?

    Rather than consuming Israel’s offerings for sin on the altar the Lord would consume Israel!

    The Day of the Lord

    20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness instead of light,
    Even gloom with no brightness in it?

    21 “I hate, I reject your festivals,
    Nor do I delight in your solemn assemblies.

    We will have more about festivals to consider
    when returning to the Gospel of John shortly.


    22 “Even though you offer up to Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
    I will not accept them…

    The Lord will no longer accept Israel’s worship!

    23 Take away from me the noise of your songs!

    25 “House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?

    Amos reminds that they had nothing to offer there before the pillar of fire of the LORD!

    Idolatry

    NO OTHER GODS!

    The Law of the Living LORD our God is quite clear: He IS GOD and idols (even of good “Saints” or a Jesus of stone) are not. Yet Israel became a whore on the mountaintops of the stone images of idolatry.

    26 וּנְשָׂאתֶ֗ם אֵ֚ת סִכּ֣וּת מַלְכְּכֶ֔ם וְאֵ֖ת כִּיּ֣וּן צַלְמֵיכֶ֑ם כּוֹכַב֙ אֱלֹ֣הֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר עֲשִׂיתֶ֖ם לָכֶֽם׃

    Amos 5:27 WLC

    27 Therefore I will send you into captivity beyond Damascus,”
    Says the Lord, whose name is the God of hosts.

    Woe to those at ease

    We have heard this before from the Prophet Isaiah who also preached against rituals and idolatry after Amos. The true prophet so often warns, “This is what the LORD God showed me.”

    Warning & Advice to Scoffers Who Rule
    Isaiah speaks to scoffers of God. Yet are your ears this day so filled with twisted speech that you do not even understand the significance of his warning?

    Amos now warns the rich who govern and direct worship in Israel.

    3 Woe to you who put far off the day of doom,
    Who cause the seat of violence to come near;
    4 Who lie on beds of ivory,
    Stretch out on your couches,
    Eat lambs from the flock
    And calves from the midst of the stall;
    5 Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
    And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David;
    6 Who drink wine from bowls,
    And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
    But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

    … now go into exile … And the sprawlers’ banqueting will pass away…

    Judgment on Jacob

    8 The Lord God has sworn by Himself,
    The Lord God of hosts says:
    “I abhor the pride of Jacob,
    And hate his palaces;
    Therefore I will deliver up the city
    And all that is in it.”

    God showed me five signs

    1. Locusts
    2. Fire
    3. A Plumb Line
    4. A Basket of Summer Fruit
    5. The Lord standing beside the altar

    I will leave it to you to read the five signs Amos tells us, ‘the Lord God showed me.’

    Let the Holy Spirit convict the church!

    The Lord Jesus, Redeemer of Israel, later showed signs no other Prophet could ever do. Yet even the Messiah Jesus was not believed.

    So how do you think Amos was received by the leaders of the land and their appointed teachers and priests?

    The five signs build in intensity and importance.

    A brief glance

    7:2 When the locusts finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, “Lord God, please forgive! … So the Lord relented…

    4 The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land. 5 Then I said, “Lord God, please stop! …

    “This too shall not be,” said the Lord God.

    plumb line hanging next to a wall

    7 Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand. And the Lord said to me,

    “Amos, what do you see?”

    And I said, “A plumb line.”

    Opposition

    10 Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to King Jeroboam of Israel, saying,

    “Amos has conspired against you right here in the house of Israel. The land cannot endure all his words…

    12 Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go away, you seer!

    Amos responds to the priest with the anointing of the Lord in his calling.

    “I was no prophet…, But I was a sheepbreeder.

    I will spare them no longer

    What do you think?

    The Lord has relented from punishment for sin. Will you repent?

    And once again, the Lord holds back and does not punish. Will you now repent?

    So the Lord measures the place of your worship, the people of His pasture. It is a time for harvest, a festival of blessing in times before.

    3 In that day the temple songs will become wailing”—this is the Lord God’s declaration.

    “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere!

    Silence!”

    Do you now FEAR THE LORD?

    4 Hear this,

    you who swallow up the needy,
    And make the poor of the land fail…

    10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
    I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth
    and every head to be shaved.
    I will make that grief
    like mourning for an only son
    and its outcome like a bitter day.

    11 Look, the days are coming—
    this is the declaration of the Lord God—
    when I will send a famine through the land:
    not a famine of bread or a thirst for water,
    but of hearing the words of the Lord.
    12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and roam from north to east
    seeking the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.

    SILENCE! of the LORD. Do you hear it?

    God’s Judgment Unavoidable

    Did you repent when you heard the word of the Lord?

    And did you bow down when the Lord showed you mercy?

    Now, therefore, the Lord stands beside the holy altar of worship and Amos speaks the unspeakable judgment of the Lord upon the people of His Own covenant.

    I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said,

    “Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
    And break them on the heads of them all.
    I will slay the last of them with the sword.
    He who flees from them shall not get away,
    And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

    “Though they dig into hell,
    From there My hand shall take them;
    Though they climb up to heaven,
    From there I will bring them down;

    The word of the LORD – Amos 9:2 NKJV

    The further words of the Lord paint a fearful judgment and death of the people of His promise, a covenant Israel has broken.

    The Prophet Amos confronts you and says, God showed me all this that you might repent. Do you?

    All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

    Amos 9:10 KJV

    The ending that is not yet the end

    Amos offers only a distant glimmer of hope.

    “On that day I will raise up
    The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
    And repair its damages;
    I will raise up its ruins,
    And rebuild it as in the days of old…

    The Lord God will once again accept worship by the sons of David. Yet how?

    We will learn more of this next in returning to the Good News of John.

    וְשָׁפַכְתִּי֩ עַל־בֵּ֨ית דָּוִ֜יד וְעַ֣ל יֹושֵׁ֣ב יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם ר֤וּחַ חֵן֙ וְתַ֣חֲנוּנִ֔ים וְהִבִּ֥יטוּ אֵלַ֖י אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־דָּקָ֑רוּ וְסָפְד֣וּ עָלָ֗יו כְּמִסְפֵּד֙ עַל־הַיָּחִ֔יד וְהָמֵ֥ר עָלָ֖יו כְּהָמֵ֥ר עַֽל־הַבְּכֹֽור׃

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    “I will pour out on the house of David

    and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

    the Spirit of grace and of supplication,

    so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced;

    and they will mourn for Him,

    as one mourns for an only son,

    and they will weep bitterly over Him

    like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

    Zechariah 12:10 NASB

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