Zechariah 12:12,13

David … Nathan … Levi … Shimei Two families are singled out, the kingly and the priestly, as examples of the rest. And in each case, to shew the pervading character of the grief, the family or tribe is first described by its general and inclusive name, and then one branch of it is mentioned, to indicate that to every part and division the widespread mourning shall extend. "This sorrow should be universal but also individual, the whole land, and that family by family; the royal family in the direct line of its kings, and in a branch from Nathan, a son of David and whole brother of Solomon (1 Chronicles 3:5), which was continued on in private life, yet was still to be an ancestral line of Jesus (Luke 3:31); in like way the main priestly family from Levi, and a subordinate line from a grandson of Levi, the family of Shimei(Numbers 3:21); and all the remaining families, each with their separate sorrow, each according to Joel's call (Joel 2:16), let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber and the bride out of her closet, each denying himself the tenderest solaces of life." Pusey.

The prophecy began to be fulfilled, so soon as the actual piercing had taken place, when "all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts and returned." (Luke 23:48.) The fulfilment was continued on the day of Pentecost, when those to whom it was said, "God hath made that same Jesus whom ye have crucified both Lord and Christ, were pricked in their heart." (Acts 2:36-37.) It has gone on ever since; but it awaits a larger and more exact realisation, when all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, "There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob." (Romans 11:26.)