Hebrews 12:2

Sawyer

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

For consider him that has endured such a contradiction from sinners, that you may not become faint and weary in your minds.

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

On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, 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 in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day, and he saw, and was glad.

But our kingdom is in heaven, from which also we expect the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge will give me in that day, and not me only but all who love his appearing.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ,

THAT which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we beheld and our hands felt, concerning the Word of life,??2 and the life was made manifest, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us,??3 that which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

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

The author

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

And the father of the little child immediately crying out, said, I believe; help my unbelief.

And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith.

him has God exalted, a Prince and Saviour at his right hand, to give a change of mind to Israel and the forgiveness of sins.

And how do we hear each one in our own language in which we were born,

Finisher

for the law made nothing perfect, but was the introduction of a better hope through which we draw nigh to God.

For by one offering he has perfected forever the sanctified.

so that you are behind in no gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

having this same confidence, that he who has begun a good work in you will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ,

Endured

Wherefore, coming into the world, he says, A sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire, but a body didst thou prepare me.

From that time 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 raised on the third day.

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

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

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 for this cause came I to this hour;

and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having destroyed the enmity by it.

and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

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

who himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we having died to sins, may live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might lead us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Despising

partly in being made a spectacle by reproaches and afflictions, and partly being companions of those so treated.

and others had trial of mockings and scourges, and besides of bonds and imprisonment;

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

THEN the soldiers of the procurator taking Jesus to the Praetorium assembled about him the whole cohort,

And he said to them, Elijah comes first, and restores all things; as also it is written of the Son of man, That he shall suffer many things, and be set at naught;

And Herod, with his soldiers, treated him with contempt, and mocked him, and put on him a splendid garment, and sent him back to Pilate.

They went therefore from the presence of the Sanhedrim, rejoicing that they were accounted worthy to suffer shame for the name of [Christ];

who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,

If you are reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.

And is

who being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his substance, and sustaining all things by the word of his power, having made a purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high,

BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens,

who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.

General references

A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

And some spit on him; and they blindfolded him, and beat him with the fist, and said to him, Prophesy. And the officers beat him with open hands.

(Added verse not retained in Sawyer)

And two other criminals were led out to be put to death with him.

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

where they crucified him, and two others with him, one on one side and the other on the other, and Jesus between.

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.