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Isaiah
52:13-53:12
Psalm
22
Hebrews
10:16-25
John
18:1-19:42
Isaiah
52:13-53:12
52:13 See, my servant shall prosper; he shall be exalted and
lifted up, and shall be very high.
52:14
Just as there were many who were astonished at him--so marred was
his appearance, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that
of mortals-
52:15
so he shall startle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths
because of him; for that which had not been told them they shall
see, and that which they had not heard they shall contemplate.
53:1
Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of
the LORD been revealed?
53:2
For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out
of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at
him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.
53:3
He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and
acquainted with infirmity; and as one from whom others hide their
faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.
53:4
Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet
we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.
53:5
But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our
iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by
his bruises we are healed.
53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have all turned to our own
way, and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
53:7
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did not open his
mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep
that before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
53:8
By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have
imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the
living, stricken for the transgression of my people.
53:9
They made his grave with the wicked and his tomb with the rich,
although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his
mouth.
53:10
Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him with pain. When you
make his life an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, and
shall prolong his days; through him the will of the LORD shall
prosper.
53:11
Out of his anguish he shall see light; he shall find satisfaction
through his knowledge. The righteous one, my servant, shall make
many righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
53:12
Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out himself to
death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the
sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
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Psalm
22
22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far
from helping me, from the words of my groaning?
22:2
O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but
find no rest.
22:3
Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.
22:4
In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted, and you delivered
them.
22:5
To you they cried, and were saved; in you they trusted, and were
not put to shame.
22:6
But I am a worm, and not human; scorned by others, and despised by
the people.
22:7
All who see me mock at me; they make mouths at me, they shake
their heads;
22:8
"Commit your cause to the LORD; let him deliver-- let him
rescue the one in whom he delights!"
22:9
Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my
mother's breast.
22:10
On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you
have been my God.
22:11
Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to
help.
22:12
Many bulls encircle me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me;
22:13
they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring
lion.
22:14
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my
heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast;
22:15
my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my
jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
22:16
For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me.
My hands and feet have shriveled;
22:17
I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me;
22:18
they divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they
cast lots.
22:19
But you, O LORD, do not be far away! O my help, come quickly to my
aid!
22:20
Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog!
22:21
Save me from the mouth of the lion! From the horns of the wild
oxen you have rescued me.
22:22
I will tell of your name to my brothers and sisters; in the midst
of the congregation I will praise you:
22:23
You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob,
glorify him; stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
22:24
For he did not despise or abhor the affliction of the afflicted;
he did not hide his face from me, but heard when I cried to him.
22:25
From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will
pay before those who fear him.
22:26
The poor shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall
praise the LORD. May your hearts live forever!
22:27
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD; and
all the families of the nations shall worship before him.
22:28
For dominion belongs to the LORD, and he rules over the nations.
22:29
To him, indeed, shall all who sleep in the earth bow down; before
him shall bow all who go down to the dust, and I shall live for
him.
22:30
Posterity will serve him; future generations will be told about
the Lord,
22:31
and proclaim his deliverance to a people yet unborn, saying that
he has done it.
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Hebrews
10:16-25
10:16 "This is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, says the Lord: I will put my laws in their hearts, and
I will write them on their minds,"
10:17
he also adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless
deeds no more."
10:18
Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any
offering for sin.
10:19
Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the
sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
10:20
by the new and living way that he opened for us through the
curtain (that is, through his flesh),
10:21
and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
10:22
let us approach with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with
our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water.
10:23
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering,
for he who has promised is faithful.
10:24
And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good
deeds,
10:25
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but
encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day
approaching.
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John
18:1-19:42
18:1 After Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his
disciples across the Kidron valley to a place where there was a
garden, which he and his disciples entered.
18:2
Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus
often met there with his disciples.
18:3
So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police
from the chief priests and the Pharisees, and they came there with
lanterns and torches and weapons.
18:4
Then Jesus, knowing all that was to happen to him, came forward
and asked them, "Whom are you looking for?"
18:5
They answered, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus replied,
"I am he." Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with
them.
18:6
When Jesus said to them, "I am he," they stepped back
and fell to the ground.
18:7
Again he asked them, "Whom are you looking for?" And
they said, "Jesus of Nazareth."
18:8
Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. So if you are
looking for me, let these men go."
18:9
This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken, "I did not
lose a single one of those whom you gave me."
18:10
Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high
priest's slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was
Malchus.
18:11
Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Am
I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?"
18:12
So the soldiers, their officer, and the Jewish police arrested
Jesus and bound him.
18:13
First they took him to Annas, who was the father-in-law of
Caiaphas, the high priest that year.
18:14
Caiaphas was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better
to have one person die for the people.
18:15
Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. Since that
disciple was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the
courtyard of the high priest,
18:16
but Peter was standing outside at the gate. So the other disciple,
who was known to the high priest, went out, spoke to the woman who
guarded the gate, and brought Peter in.
18:17
The woman said to Peter, "You are not also one of this man's
disciples, are you?" He said, "I am not."
18:18
Now the slaves and the police had made a charcoal fire because it
was cold, and they were standing around it and warming themselves.
Peter also was standing with them and warming himself.
18:19
Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and
about his teaching.
18:20
Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world; I have
always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews
come together. I have said nothing in secret.
18:21
Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said to them; they
know what I said."
18:22
When he had said this, one of the police standing nearby struck
Jesus on the face, saying, "Is that how you answer the high
priest?"
18:23
Jesus answered, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the
wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?"
18:24
Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
18:25
Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him,
"You are not also one of his disciples, are you?" He
denied it and said, "I am not."
18:26
One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose
ear Peter had cut off, asked, "Did I not see you in the
garden with him?"
18:27
Again Peter denied it, and at that moment the cock crowed.
18:28
Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate's headquarters. It
was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the
headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to
eat the Passover.
18:29
So Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you
bring against this man?"
18:30
They answered, "If this man were not a criminal, we would not
have handed him over to you."
18:31
Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him
according to your law." The Jews replied, "We are not
permitted to put anyone to death."
18:32
(This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the
kind of death he was to die.)
18:33
Then Pilate entered the headquarters again, summoned Jesus, and
asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"
18:34
Jesus answered, "Do you ask this on your own, or did others
tell you about me?"
18:35
Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and
the chief priests have handed you over to me. What have you
done?"
18:36
Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my
kingdom were from this world, my followers would be fighting to
keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my
kingdom is not from here."
18:37
Pilate asked him, "So you are a king?" Jesus answered,
"You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this
I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who
belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
18:38
Pilate asked him, "What is truth?" After he had said
this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, "I find no
case against him.
18:39
But you have a custom that I release someone for you at the
Passover. Do you want me to release for you the King of the
Jews?"
18:40
They shouted in reply, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now
Barabbas was a bandit.
19:1
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged.
19:2
And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head,
and they dressed him in a purple robe.
19:3
They kept coming up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the
Jews!" and striking him on the face.
19:4
Pilate went out again and said to them, "Look, I am bringing
him out to you to let you know that I find no case against
him."
19:5
So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple
robe. Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"
19:6
When the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted,
"Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them,
"Take him yourselves and crucify him; I find no case against
him."
19:7
The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that
law he ought to die because he has claimed to be the Son of
God."
19:8
Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever.
19:9
He entered his headquarters again and asked Jesus, "Where are
you from?" But Jesus gave him no answer.
19:10
Pilate therefore said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me?
Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to
crucify you?"
19:11
Jesus answered him, "You would have no power over me unless
it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me
over to you is guilty of a greater sin."
19:12
From then on Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews cried out,
"If you release this man, you are no friend of the emperor.
Everyone who claims to be a king sets himself against the
emperor."
19:13
When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat on
the judge's bench at a place called The Stone Pavement, or in
Hebrew Gabbatha.
19:14
Now it was the day of Preparation for the Passover; and it was
about noon. He said to the Jews, "Here is your King!"
19:15
They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify
him!" Pilate asked them, "Shall I crucify your
King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but
the emperor."
19:16
Then he handed him over to them to be crucified. So they took
Jesus;
19:17
and carrying the cross by himself, he went out to what is called
The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
19:18
There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either
side, with Jesus between them.
19:19
Pilate also had an inscription written and put on the cross. It
read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."
19:20
Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where
Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in
Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
19:21
Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not
write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of
the Jews.'"
19:22
Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
19:23
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and
divided them into four parts, one for each soldier. They also took
his tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from the
top. 19:24
So
they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots
for it to see who will get it." This was to fulfill what the
scripture says, "They divided my clothes among themselves,
and for my clothing they cast lots."
19:25
And that is what the soldiers did. Meanwhile, standing near the
cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the
wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
19:26
When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing
beside her, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your
son."
19:27
Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And
from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
19:28
After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in
order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty."
19:29
A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge
full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth.
19:30
When Jesus had received the wine, he said, "It is
finished." Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
19:31
Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the
bodies left on the cross during the sabbath, especially because
that sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to
have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed.
19:32
Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the
other who had been crucified with him.
19:33
But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they
did not break his legs.
19:34
Instead, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at
once blood and water came out.
19:35
(He who saw this has testified so that you also may believe. His
testimony is true, and he knows that he tells the truth.)
19:36
These things occurred so that the scripture might be fulfilled,
"None of his bones shall be broken."
19:37
And again another passage of scripture says, "They will look
on the one whom they have pierced."
19:38
After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of
Jesus, though a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked
Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him
permission; so he came and removed his body.
19:39
Nicodemus, who had at first come to Jesus by night, also came,
bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, weighing about a hundred
pounds.
19:40
They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it with the spices in
linen cloths, according to the burial custom of the Jews.
19:41
Now there was a garden in the place where he was crucified, and in
the garden there was a new tomb in which no one had ever been
laid.
19:42
And so, because it was the Jewish day of Preparation, and the tomb
was nearby, they laid Jesus there.
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