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 overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.
And I a worm and not a man; a reproach of man, and the people despised me.
Sacrifice and a gift thou didst not delight in; the ears thou didst pierce to me: burnt-offering and sin thou didst not ask. Then I said, Behold, I came: in the volume of the book it was written concerning me. read more. To do thine acceptance, O my God, I delighted; and thy law in the midst of my bowels.
And he will give with the unjust his grave, and with the rich in his deaths, for he did no violence, and no deceit in his mouth.
Then was Jesus led up by the Spirit into the desert to be tried by the devil. And having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he was hungry. read more. And the tempter having come to him, said, If thou art the Son of God, say that these stones should become bread. And he having answered, said, It has been written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word going forth through the mouth of God. Then the devil takes him into the holy city, and sets him upon the small wing of the temple; And says to him, If thou art the Son of God cast thyself down; for it has been written, That to his messengers he will command concerning thee; and in the hands shall they lift thee up, lest that perhaps thou strike thy foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, Again has it been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil takes him into a very high mount, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory; And he says to him, All these will I give to thee, if, falling down, thou wouldst worship me. Then says Jesus to him, Retire, Satan; for it has been written, The Lord thy God shalt thou worship, and him alone shalt thou serve. Then the devil lets him go, and behold, the messengers came up, and they served him.
And the chief priests, and the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
Then did they spit in his face, and cuffed him, and struck him with a rod: Saying, Prophesy to us, O Christ, Who is he having struck thee
And being evening, then there came a rich man from Arimathea, Joseph by name, who also himself was a disciple to Jesus: He having come to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered the body to be given back.
And put it in his new tomb, which he quarried in the rock: and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he departed.
And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting lots upon what any should take up. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him:
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and swathed him, and put him in a mangier; : for there was no place for them in the inn.
And being in a violent struggle, he prayed more intently: and his sweat was as clots of blood coming down upon the earth.
And Nathanael said to him, Can any good be from Nazareth? Philip says to him, Come and see.
This one, surrendered by the fixed counsel and foreknowledge of God, having taken by lawless hands, having fastened, ye slew: Whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death: as it was not possible for him to be holden of it.
And when the completion of the time was come, God sent his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross.
But we see Jesus, made some little while less than angels by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste of death for all.
Wherefore in all things it was necessary to be made like to the brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful chief priest in things towards God, in order to propitiate for the sin of the people. For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted.
For we have not a chief priest unable to suffer with our weaknesses; but tried in all things as a resemblance, without sin.
Neither by the blood of he-goats and calves, and by his own blood he went in once for all to the holies, having found eternal deliverance.
And for this he is mediator of a new covenant, that death having been, for redemption of the transgressions for the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.