Hebrews 12:2

Moffatt

Hebrews 12:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Hebrews 1:3

Hebrews 8:1

1 Peter 3:22

General references

Hebrews 12:4

Bible References

Looking

Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing.

so Christ, after being once sacrificed to bear the sins of many, will appear again, not to deal with sin but for the saving of those who look out for him.

Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

It is the will of my Father that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should possess eternal life, and that I should raise him up on the last day."

Your father Abraham exulted that he was to see my Day: he did see it and he rejoiced."

But we are a colony of heaven, and we wait for the Saviour who comes from heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Now the crown of a good life awaits me, with which the Lord, that just Judge, will reward me on the great Day ??and not only me but all who have loved and longed for his appearance.

awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

It is of what existed from the very beginning, of what we heard, of what we saw, of what we witnessed and touched with our own hands, it is of the Logos of Life

so keeping yourselves within the love of God and waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that ends in life eternal.

The author

In bringing many sons to glory, it was befitting that He for whom and by whom the universe exists, should perfect the Pioneer of their salvation by suffering.

At once the father of the boy cried out, "I do believe; help my unbelief."

The apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith!"

God lifted him up to his right hand as our pioneer and saviour, in order to grant repentance and remission of sins to Israel.

Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native tongue?

Finisher

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

For by a single offering he has made the sanctified perfect for all time.

Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Endured

Hence, on entering the world he says, Thou hast no desire for sacrifice or offering; it is a body thou hast prepared for me ??6 in holocausts and sin-offerings thou takest no delight.

From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he had to leave for Jerusalem and endure great suffering at the hands of the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed and raised on the third day.

"We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man will be betrayed to the high priests and scribes; they will sentence him to death

and after making fun of him they stripped him of the mantle, put on his own clothes, and took him off to be crucified.

"Abba, Father," he said, "thou canst do anything. Take this cup away from me. Yet, not what I will but what thou wilt."

My soul is now disquieted. What am I to say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? Nay, it is something else that has brought me to this hour:

so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;

and lead lives of love, just as Christ loved you and gave himself up for you to be a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

Despising

partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;

others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated

Then they spat in his face and buffeted him, some of them cuffing him

Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium and got all the regiment round him;

He said to them, "Elijah does come first, to restore all things; but what is written about the Son of man as well? This, that he is to endure great suffering and be rejected.

Then Herod and his troops scoffed at him and made fun of him, and after arraying him in a bright robe he remitted him to Pilate.

The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy of suffering dishonour for the sake of the Name;

he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;

If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

And is

He, reflecting God's bright glory and stamped with God's own character, sustains the universe with his word of power; when he had secured our purification from sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high;

The point of all this is, we do have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of Majesty in the heavens,

who is at God's right hand ??for he went to heaven after angels, authorities, and powers celestial had been made subject to him.)

General references

A scholar is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

and some of them started to spit on him and to blindfold him and buffet him, asking him, "Prophesy." The attendants treated him to cuffs and slaps.

Two criminals were also led out with him to be executed,

If the world hates you, remember it hated me first.

there they crucified him, along with two others, one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin.