Hebrews 12:2

Williams

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

Yes, to keep from growing weary and fainthearted, just think of the examples set by Him who has endured so great opposition aimed at Him by sinful men!

so Christ was offered once for all to take away the sins of many, but again He will appear, without having anything to do with sin, to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him to bring them final salvation.

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

Your forefather Abraham exulted in the hope of seeing my day. He has seen it and is glad of it."

But we are citizens of the republic in heaven, from which we are eagerly waiting for our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now the crown for doing right awaits me, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award me on that day, and not only me but also all who have loved His appearing.

while we are waiting for the realization of our blessed hope at the glorious appearing of our great God and Saviour Christ Jesus,

It is what existed from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have beheld, what our own hands have touched, about the very message of life --

you must keep yourselves in the love of God and continue to wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, to bring you to eternal life.

The author

For it was appropriate for Him, who is the Final Goal and the First Cause of the universe, in bringing many children to glory, to make the Leader in their salvation perfect through the process of sufferings.

The boy's father at once cried out and said, "I do have faith; help my lack of faith!"

Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith."

God has exalted to His right hand this very One as our Leader and Saviour, in order to give repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

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

Finisher

for the law had never made anything perfect -- and so a better hope is brought to us, through which we have approach to God.

For by that one sacrifice He has made perfect for all time those who are consecrated to Him.

so that there is no spiritual gift in which you consciously come short, while you are waiting for the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For I am certain of this very thing, that He who began the good work in you will go on until the day of Jesus Christ to complete it.

Endured

So, when Christ was coming into the world, He said:

It was just after that that Jesus Christ for the first time clearly taught His disciples that He had to go to Jerusalem and submit to many forms of suffering at the hands of the elders, high priests, and scribes, and be killed, but be raised to life on the third day.

"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be turned over to the high priests and the scribes, and they will sentence Him to death,

And when they had finished making sport of Him, they took off the cloak, and put His own clothes back on Him, and led Him away to be crucified.

and He was saying, "Abba [which means 'Father'], anything is possible for you! Take this cup away from me! Yet, I pray, not what I want but what you want!"

Now my soul is troubled; what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour of agony! And yet it was for this very purpose that I came to this hour of agony.

to reconcile them both to God with His cross after He had killed the hostility through it.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

who gave Himself for us to ransom us from all iniquity and purify for Himself a people to be His very own, zealous of good works.

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

Despising

partly by being exposed as a public spectacle to insults and violent sufferings, and partly by showing yourselves ready to share with those who were living in this condition.

Still others stood the test of taunts and tortures, and even chains and prisons.

After that they spit in His face and hit Him with their fists, and others boxed His ears,

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the barracks, and gathered about Him the whole battalion.

He answered them, "Elijah does come first and gets everything ready, but how is it that the Scripture says about the Son of Man that He will suffer much and be rejected?

Then Herod and his bodyguard treated Him with contempt and made sport of Him and put a gorgeous robe on Him and sent Him back to Pilate.

So they went out from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer disgrace for Jesus' name;

Although He was abused, He never retorted; although He continued to suffer, He never threatened, but committed His case to Him who judges justly.

If you are suffering abuse because you bear the name of Christ, you are happy, because the glorious Spirit of God is resting upon you.

And is

He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a High Priest as this, one who has taken His seat at the right hand of God's majestic throne in heaven

who has gone to heaven and is now at God's right hand, with angels, heavenly authorities and powers made subject to Him.

General references

No pupil is better than his teacher, and no slave is better than his master.

And some of them started to spit on Him and to blindfold Him and to hit Him with their fists, and say to Him, "Now play the prophet!" Even the attendants took charge of Him with slaps at Him.

Omitted Text.

Two others, criminals, were also led out to be executed with Him.

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

There they crucified Him, with two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle.

You have not yet, as you have struggled on against sin, resisted to the point of pouring out your blood,