Hebrews 12:2

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Hebrews 12:2

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Summary

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Looking

The author

Acts 2:8

Finisher

Endured

Despising

And is

General references

Bible References

Looking

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

thus the Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear to those that look for him the second time without sin for salvation.

And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for him.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and depend on horses, and confide in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong; and who look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!

Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall look on me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for an only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, should have life eternal; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Your father Abraham exulted in that he should see my day, and he saw and rejoiced.

for our commonwealth has its existence in the heavens, from which also we await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour,

Henceforth the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will render to me in that day; but not only to me, but also to all who love his appearing.

awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes; that which we contemplated, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life;

keep yourselves in the love of God, awaiting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

The author

For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make perfect the leader of their salvation through sufferings.

And immediately the father of the young child crying out said with tears, I believe, help mine unbelief.

And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us.

Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

and how do we hear them each in our own dialect in which we have been born,

Finisher

(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.

For by one offering he has perfected in perpetuity the sanctified.

so that ye come short in no gift, awaiting the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day:

Endured

Wherefore coming into the world he says, Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not; but thou hast prepared me a body.

From that time Jesus began to shew to his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised.

Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death;

And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.

And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: take away this cup from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt.

Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to this hour.

and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, in order that, being dead to sins, we may live to righteousness: by whose stripes ye have been healed.

for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

Despising

on the one hand, when ye were made a spectacle both in reproaches and afflictions; and on the other, when ye became partakers with those who were passing through them.

and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and of bonds and imprisonment.

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

Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to the servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise, princes, and they shall worship, because of Jehovah who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.

I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces; despised, and we esteemed him not.

Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and some struck him with the palms of their hand,

Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with them to the praetorium, gathered against him the whole band,

And he answering said to them, Elias indeed, having first come, restores all things; and how is it written of the Son of man that he must suffer much, and be set at nought:

And Herod with his troops having set him at nought and mocked him, having put a splendid robe upon him, sent him back to Pilate.

They therefore went their way from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonoured for the name.

who, when reviled, reviled not again; when suffering, threatened not; but gave himself over into the hands of him who judges righteously;

If ye are reproached in the name of Christ, blessed are ye; for the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

And is

who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

Now a summary of the things of which we are speaking is, We have such a one high priest who has sat down on the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens;

{Psalm of David.} Jehovah said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I put thine enemies as footstool of thy feet.

who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being subjected to him.

General references

A throne of glory, set on high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the bondman above his lord.

And some began to spit upon him, and cover up his face, and buffet him, and say to him, Prophesy; and the officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

And the scripture was fulfilled which says, And he was reckoned with the lawless.

Now two others also, malefactors, were led with him to be put to death.

If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you.

where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on this side, and one on that, and Jesus in the middle.

Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, wrestling against sin.