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

Hebrews 12:4

Bible References

Looking

For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary in your souls [and] give up.

thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation.

And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him.

Ah! Those who go down [to] Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh.

Turn to me and be saved, all [the] ends of [the] earth, for I [am] God and there is none besides [me].

But [as for] me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

" 'I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as [one] grieves bitterly over a firstborn.

On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."

Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw [it] and was glad."

For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Finally, the crown of righteousness is reserved for me, that the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing.

looking forward to the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched, concerning the word of life--

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

The author

For it was fitting for him for whom [are] all [things] and through whom [are] all [things] in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings.

Immediately the father of the child cried out [and] said, "I believe! Help my unbelief!"

And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

This one God has exalted to his right hand [as] Leader and Savior to grant repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.

And how do we hear, each one [of us], in {our own native language}?

Finisher

(for the law [made] nothing perfect), but on the other hand [there is] the introduction of a better hope through which we draw near to God.

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

so that you do not lack in any spiritual gift [as you] eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

convinced of this same [thing], that the one who began a good work in you will finish [it] until the day of Christ Jesus,

Endured

Therefore, [when he] came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

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

"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the military cloak and put his [own] clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify [him].

And he said, "Abba, Father, all [things] [are] possible for you! Take away this cup from me! Yet not what I will, but what you [will]."

"Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? But for this [reason] I have come to this hour!

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself.

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

who gave himself for us, in order that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good deeds.

who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, in order that he could bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

Despising

sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way.

And others {experienced mocking and flogging}, and in addition bonds and imprisonment.

But I [am] a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people.

You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. {Fully known} to you are all my adversaries.

Thus says Yahweh, the redeemer of Israel, his holy one, to the one who despises life, to the one who abhors [the] nation, to [the] slave of rulers: "Kings shall see and stand up; princes, and they shall bow down, for the sake of Yahweh, who [is] faithful, the holy one of Israel, and he has chosen you."

I gave my back to those who struck [me], and my cheeks to those who pulled out my {beard}; I did not hide my face from insults and spittle.

[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists, and they slapped [him],

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's residence [and] gathered the whole cohort to him.

And he said to them, "Elijah indeed does come first [and] restores all [things]. And how is it written concerning the Son of Man that he should suffer many [things] and be treated with contempt?

And Herod with his soldiers also treated him with contempt, and [after] mocking [him] [and] dressing [him] [in] glistening clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.

So they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin rejoicing, because they had been considered worthy to be dishonored for the sake of the name.

who [when he] was reviled, did not revile in return; [when] suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted [himself] to the one who judges justly,

If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, [you are] blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

And is

who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all [things] by the word of power. [When he] had made purification for sins through him, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Now [this is] the main point in what has been said: we have a high priest such as this, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

A declaration of Yahweh to my lord, "Sit at my right [hand] until I make your enemies your footstool."

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

General references

A lofty throne of glory from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.

"A disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor a slave superior to his master.

And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him "Prophesy!" And the officers received him with slaps in the face.

And two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before [it hated] you.

where they crucified him, and with him two others, {one on each side}, and Jesus in the middle.

You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.