Isaiah 53:7

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and no sin is in him.

Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

But he stayed quiet, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

I saw in the middle of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the middle of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats.

“ ‘If anyone sins, in that he hears a public adjuration to testify, he being a witness, whether he has seen or known, if he doesn’t report it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

I saw that the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as with a voice of thunder, “Come and see!”

It shall be on Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall make holy in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always on his forehead, that they may be accepted before Yahweh.

“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

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

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.

“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

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

When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.

Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.

When he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

The chief priests accused him of many things.

But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

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.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”

“ ‘If he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he shall bring a female without defect.

I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

They led Jesus away to the high priest. All the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes came together with him.

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

but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,