Mark 9:12

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights: I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

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.

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

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

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.’

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.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will 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.”

He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

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,

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

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.’

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,

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

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

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?

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.

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.

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

but I tell you that Elijah has come already, and they didn’t recognize him, but did to him whatever they wanted to. Even so the Son of Man will also suffer by them.”

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

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone?’

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

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

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

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,

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

so he will cleanse many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for they will see that which had not been told them, and they will understand that which they had not heard.

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.

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

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

“ ‘ “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.

But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

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.

While they were staying in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered up into the hands of men,

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”

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

The robbers also who were crucified with him cast on him the same reproach.

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

For he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.

As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that God’s Kingdom would be revealed immediately.

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

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.

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

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

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.

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

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

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.”

They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, “The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again.”

They all left him, and fled.

But first, he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

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.

Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

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

I and the Father are one.”

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

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

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

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.

Just as many were astonished at you— his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men—

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.

“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.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.

For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Yahweh said to me, “Throw it to the potter, the handsome price that I was valued at by them!” I took the thirty pieces of silver, and threw them to the potter, in Yahweh’s house.

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.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways,

One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, “If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!”

Therefore when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?”

He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

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.