Reference: Humiliation Of Christ
Easton
(Php 2:8), seen in (1) his birth (Ga 4:4; Lu 2:7; Joh 1:46; Heb 2:9), (2) his circumstances, (3) his reputation (Isa 53; Mt 26:59,67; Ps 22:6; Mt 26:68), (4) his soul (Ps 22:1; Mt 4:1-11; Lu 22:44; Heb 2:17-18; 4:15), (5) his death (Lu 23; Joh 19; Mr 15:24-25), (6) and his burial (Isa 53:9; Mt 27:57-58,60).
His humiliation was necessary (1) to execute the purpose of God (Ac 2:23-24; Ps 40:6-8), (2) fulfil the Old Testament types and prophecies, (3) satisfy the law in the room of the guilty (Isa 53; Heb 9:12,15), procure for them eternal redemption, (4) and to show us an example.
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{To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people.
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded; Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me -- read more. To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
And men appointed his grave with the wicked, but he was with the rich in his death, because he had done no violence, neither was there guile in his mouth.
Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil: and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered. read more. And the tempter coming up to him said, If thou be Son of God, speak, that these stones may become loaves of bread. But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth. Then the devil takes him to the holy city, and sets him upon the edge of the temple, and says to him, If thou be Son of God cast thyself down; for it is written, He shall give charge to his angels concerning thee, and on their hands shall they bear thee, lest in anywise thou strike thy foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, It is again written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again the devil takes him to a very high mountain, and shews him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory, and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage. Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaves him, and behold, angels came and ministered to him.
And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.
Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and some struck him with the palms of their hand, saying, Prophesy to us, Christ, Who is it who struck thee?
Now when even was come there came a rich man of Arimathaea, his name Joseph, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus. He, going to Pilate, begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be given up.
and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn in the rock; and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, went away.
And having crucified him, they part his clothes amongst themselves, casting lots on them, what each one should take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him.
and she brought forth her first-born son, and wrapped him up in swaddling-clothes and laid him in the manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth.
And Nathanael said to him, Can anything good come out of Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.
him, given up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye, by the hand of lawless men, have crucified and slain. Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death, inasmuch as it was not possible that he should be held by its power;
but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law,
and having been found in figure as a man, humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.
Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like to his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people; for, in that himself has suffered, being tempted, he is able to help those that are being tempted.
For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart.
nor by blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, has entered in once for all into the holy of holies, having found an eternal redemption.
And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.