Thematic Bible: Sufferings of Christ


Thematic Bible




I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.









And she had her first son; and folding him in linen, she put him to rest in the place where the cattle had their food, because there was no room for them in the house.



For I say to you that these words will be put into effect in me, And he was numbered among the evil-doers: for what has been said in the Writings about me has an end.

Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.

But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men; And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.


When Jesus had said this he was troubled in spirit, and gave witness, saying, Truly I say to you, that one of you will be false to me.

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

And looking up to heaven, he took a deep breath, and said to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be open.

And he was very sad in spirit, and said, Why is this generation looking for a sign? truly, I say to you, No sign will be given to this generation.

And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,

And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,




Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?

For I say to you that these words will be put into effect in me, And he was numbered among the evil-doers: for what has been said in the Writings about me has an end.



But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!

The Son of man will be given up into the hands of evil-doers, and be put to death on the cross, and on the third day he will come back to life.

And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;

As the snake was lifted up by Moses in the waste land, even so it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up:


Is not this the woodworker's son? is not his mother named Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

And those who went by made sport of him, shaking their heads, and saying, Ha! you who give the Temple to destruction, and put it up again in three days, Keep yourself from death, and come down from the cross.


And a number of them said, He has an evil spirit and is out of his mind; why do you give ear to him?


And Herod, with the men of his army, put shame on him and made sport of him, and dressing him in shining robes, he sent him back to Pilate.

And the men in whose hands Jesus was, made sport of him and gave him blows.

And they made a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and put a rod in his right hand, and they went down on their knees before him, and made sport of him, saying, Long life to the King of the Jews.

In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said,

And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine


For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.





And when Jesus was nailed to the cross, the men of the army took his clothing, and made a division of it into four parts, to every man a part, and they took his coat: now the coat was without a join, made out of one bit of cloth.

And when they came to the place which is named Golgotha, they put him on the cross, and the evil-doers, one on the right side, and the other on the left.


And he was nailed to the cross; and they made a division of his clothing among them, putting to the decision of chance what everyone was to take.


And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and have belief. And those who were put on crosses with him said evil things against him.

And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.


And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):

But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.



Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain