Acts 8:33

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

‘I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire will be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword. My hand will destroy them.’

set apart among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom you remember no more. They are cut off from your hand.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

“ ‘You sword of Yahweh, how long will it be before you are quiet? Put yourself back into your scabbard; rest, and be still.’

The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.

“ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”

I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

“You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

I will come on him while he is weary and exhausted, and will make him afraid. All the people who are with him will flee. I will strike the king only,

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

You hide your face; they are troubled. You take away their breath; they die and return to the dust.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

An end has come. The end has come! It awakes against you. Behold, it comes.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

The overwhelming forces will be overwhelmed from before him, and will be broken. Yes, also the prince of the covenant.

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Yahweh my God says: “Feed the flock of slaughter.

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

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lima sabachthani?” That is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?

Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down.”

For in those days there will be oppression, such as there has not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

They all left him, and fled.

He took the twelve aside, and said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be completed.

There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

I and the Father are one.”

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.

For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:

My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”