"I bared my back to those who beat me. I did not stop them when they
insulted me, when they pulled out the hairs of my beard and spit in my
face." (Isaiah 50:6)
"It was the will of the LORD that his servant grow like a plant taking root in dry ground. He had no dignity or beauty to make us take notice of him. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him. We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him -- we ignored him as if he were nothing. But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain we should have bourn. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God. But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received. All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the LORD made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved." (Isaiah 53:2-6)
"Greater love hath no man than this, than to lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends...." (John 15:13)
"It was the will of the LORD that his servant grow like a plant taking root in dry ground. He had no dignity or beauty to make us take notice of him. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him. We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him -- we ignored him as if he were nothing. But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain we should have bourn. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God. But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received. All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the LORD made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved." (Isaiah 53:2-6)
"Greater love hath no man than this, than to lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends...." (John 15:13)
