NOTES for Zec 12:10
The image of the suffering Messiah appears for the first time in the predictions of Isaiah of Babylon. However, there is not enough concrete over there: Isaiah speaks about the sufferings of the Messiah only generally, by mentioning, nevertheless that the Messiah suffers for the sins of His people. The same subject appears in the second part of the Book of Zechariah, which most of the researchers of the Bible consider later than its first part, which was written, apparently, by the middle of V s before J.C. Here, in the image of the suffering Messiah, appear already evangelic features, and it becomes clear that the sufferings of the Messiah, maybe, will end with His execution, of which will be guilty not only the heathen, but also the representatives of Jewish people.
And if formerly we could interpret the words of Isaiah in the sense that the Messiah will suffer from foreign persecutors, in the power under which people will be because of their sins, such that one cannot speak here about the sufferings for the sins of the people in a known, not personal meaning of the word, then now it is about a direct participation in the execution of the Messiah, at least, of some of those who belong to the people of God. Sin becomes a reality. Of course, as usual in such cases, it does not come to speak about the guilt or the innocence of the people in general: as in all the times and in every nation, inside the Jewish people there are those who participate in the evil and thus has a direct relation with it, and there are those who try to resist this evil or stay simply aside.
But such a revelation raises a question before every person, who is face to face with the Messiah, and thus, face to face with God: what to do? In which side to be? The question of the Kingdom becomes a question not impersonal, not collective, when it is the Kingdom, we enter all together because of belonging to the people of God, but the question is concrete and very personal, the question of the choices made, taken decisions, committed acts or not committed acts.