Thematic Bible: Sufferings of Christ


Thematic Bible




because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me.












For I tell you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me: 'And he was counted with the criminals.' For indeed, [what is written] about me {is being fulfilled}."

In his humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his {descendants}? For his life was taken away from the earth."

but emptied himself [by] taking the form of a slave, [by] becoming in the likeness of people. And being found in appearance like a man, he humbled himself [by] becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross.


[When he] had said these [things], Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified and said, "Truly, truly I say to you that one of you will betray me."

[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened!").

And sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!"


Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself.




Was it not necessary [that] the Christ suffer these [things] and enter into his glory?"

For I tell you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me: 'And he was counted with the criminals.' For indeed, [what is written] about me {is being fulfilled}."



But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am distressed until it is accomplished!

saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of men [who are] sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise?"

and said to them, "Thus it is written [that] the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day,

And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man be lifted up,


Is not this one the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?

[He was] despised and rejected [by] men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like {one from whom others hide their faces}, [he was] despised, and we did not hold him in high regard.

And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild [it] in three days, save yourself [by] coming down from the cross!"


And many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?"


And Herod with his soldiers also treated him with contempt, and [after] mocking [him] [and] dressing [him] [in] glistening clothing, he sent him back to Pilate.

And the men who were guarding him began to mock him [while] they beat [him],

and weaving a crown of thorns, they put [it] on his head, and [put] a reed in his right hand. And kneeling down before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!"

In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking [him], saying,

And the soldiers also mocked him, coming up [and] offering him sour win


Therefore, I will divide to him [a portion] among the many, and with [the] strong ones he will divide bounty, {because} he poured his life out to death and was counted with [the] transgressors; and he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors.





Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothing and made four shares--for each soldier a share--and the tunic. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top {in a single piece}.)

And when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," there they crucified him, and the criminals, the one on [his] right and the other on [his] left.


And they crucified him and divided his clothes among themselves [by] casting lots for them [to see] who should take what.


And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe! Even those who were crucified with him were reviling him.

And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself--and us!"


and carrying for himself the cross, he went out to the [place] called The Place of a Skull (which is called Golgotha in Aramaic),

However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down [by] God and afflicted.