KJV King James Version
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
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John 19:37
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”
WEB World English Bible
Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
ASV American Standard Version
And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and again another Writing saith, ‘They shall look to him whom they did pierce.’
Surrounding context — John 19
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36 For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37 And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
38 And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave [him] leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound [weight].
40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
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Zechariah 12:10And 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] only [son], and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for [his] firstborn.Revelation 1:7Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.Psalm 22:16-17For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
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