Jesus, the Christ: Design of his Death

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? …

Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.

As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.

“On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.

…just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”

He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

And He took the bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is My body, given for you; do this in remembrance of Me.”

In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then to enter His glory?”

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, …

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

…just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

But one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all! …

Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out. …

In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had killed by hanging Him on a tree.

God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

…that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

…and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.

He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. …

Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? …

For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, He cannot die again; death no longer has dominion over Him.

The death He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life He lives, He lives to God.

For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,

He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.

…neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For this reason Christ died and returned to life, that He might be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

…you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

So this weak brother, for whom Christ died, is destroyed by your knowledge.

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that One died for all, therefore all died.

And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.

…that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

…who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

…to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

…to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved One.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. …

…and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her …

…in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

…and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross. …

…having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

…and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

…who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

…and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.

Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.

He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption. …

Nor did He enter heaven to offer Himself again and again, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own.

Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

…so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

…because by a single offering He has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

Then He adds: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” …

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

…to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp.

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.

…according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.

…but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot. …

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

…and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

…who has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”

“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.

And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.