Numbers 21:8

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

‘Yahweh is slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, forgiving iniquity and disobedience; and he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation.’

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Now all this has happened that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

that God has fulfilled this to us, their children, in that he raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second psalm, ‘You are my Son. Today I have become your father.’

Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

Yahweh is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’

that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

Now these are the last words of David. David the son of Jesse says, the man who was raised on high says, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:

He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

He has caused his wonderful works to be remembered. Yahweh is gracious and merciful.

Yahweh is Gracious and righteous. Yes, our God is merciful.

He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.

and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

“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.

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 lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

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

“Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men.”

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

When they had fulfilled all things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was priest of God Most High.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’ ”

The congregation shall deliver the man slayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he had fled. He shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

Yahweh is gracious, merciful, slow to anger, and of great loving kindness.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he will reign as king and deal wisely, and will execute justice and righteousness in the land.

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will perform that good word which I have spoken concerning the house of Israel and concerning the house of Judah.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, nor will its sovereignty be left to another people; but it will break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it will stand forever.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.

In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

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.”

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?’

David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

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.”

When they came to the place that is called “The Skull”, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.

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

He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”

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,

When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out, and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’

Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,

But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’

Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.

explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

for he powerfully refuted the Jews, publicly showing by the Scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;

But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing.

For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently. They prophesied of the grace that would come to you,

searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.

that you should remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Savior:

I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”