Thematic Bible: Sufferings of Christ


Thematic Bible




because zeal for Your house has consumed me,
and the insults of those who insult You
have fallen on me.









Then she gave birth to her firstborn Son, and she wrapped Him snugly in cloth and laid Him in a feeding trough—because there was no room for them at the lodging place.



For I tell you, what is written must be fulfilled in Me: And He was counted among the outlaws. Yes, what is written about Me is coming to its fulfillment.”

In His humiliation justice was denied Him.
Who will describe His generation?
For His life is taken from the earth.

Instead He emptied Himself by assuming the form of a slave, taking on the likeness of men. And when He had come as a man in His external form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death-even to death on a cross.


When Jesus had said this, He was troubled in His spirit and testified, “I assure you: One of you will betray Me!”


Then, looking up to heaven, He sighed deeply and said to him, “Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”).

But sighing deeply in His spirit, He said, “Why does this generation demand a sign? I assure you: No sign will be given to this generation!”


When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved.




Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into His glory?”

For I tell you, what is written must be fulfilled in Me: And He was counted among the outlaws. Yes, what is written about Me is coming to its fulfillment.”




saying, ‘The Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sinful men, be crucified, and rise on the third day’?”

He also said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day,



Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother called Mary, and His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?


Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads, and saying, "Ha! The One who would demolish the sanctuary and build it in three days, save Yourself by coming down from the cross!"


Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?”


Then Herod, with his soldiers, treated Him with contempt, mocked Him, dressed Him in a brilliant robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.

The men who were holding Jesus started mocking and beating Him.

They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and placed a reed in His right hand. And they knelt down before Him and mocked Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”

In the same way the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked Him and said,

The soldiers also mocked Him. They came offering Him sour wine


Therefore I will give Him the many as a portion,
and He will receive the mighty as spoil,
because He submitted Himself to death,
and was counted among the rebels;
yet He bore the sin of many
and interceded for the rebels.





When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took His clothes and divided them into four parts, a part for each soldier. They also took the tunic, which was seamless, woven in one piece from the top.

When they arrived at the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on the right and one on the left.


Then they crucified Him and divided His clothes, casting lots for them to decide what each would get.


Those who passed by were yelling insults at Him, shaking their heads

Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe.” Even those who were crucified with Him were taunting Him.

Then one of the criminals hanging there began to yell insults at Him: “Aren’t You the Messiah? Save Yourself and us!”


Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called Skull Place, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses,
and He carried our pains;
but we in turn regarded Him stricken,
struck down by God, and afflicted.



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