Thematic Bible: Submitting to sufferings
Thematic Bible
Humility of Christ » Exhibited in his » Submitting to sufferings
and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard.
I did not hide My face from scorn and spitting.
yet He did not open His mouth.
Like a lamb led to the slaughter
and like a sheep silent before her shearers,
He did not open His mouth.
Now the Scripture passage he was reading was this:
He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.
Verse Concepts
and as a lamb is silent before its shearer,
so He does not open His mouth.
Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, "My soul is swallowed up in sorrow -to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with Me." Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father! If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will."
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- Accepting Beatings
- Back
- Battery
- Beards
- Beatings
- Being Betrayed
- Cheeks
- Christ Being Silent
- Christ Was Killed
- Christ Willing
- Christ, Character Of
- Flogging
- Forbearance Of God
- Hair Plucking