Thematic Bible: Submitting to sufferings
Thematic Bible
Humility of Christ » Exhibited in his » Submitting to sufferings
I offered my back to those who attacked, my jaws to those who tore out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spitting.
Verse Concepts
He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth.
Verse Concepts
Now the passage of scripture the man was reading was this: "He was led like a sheep to slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth.
Verse Concepts
He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became anguished and distressed. Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, even to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me." Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will."
Related Topics
- 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