The passage describes Jesus' trial and crucifixion according to the Gospel of Matthew. It provides details of Judas betraying Jesus, Pilate questioning Him and ultimately having Him crucified. It describes Jesus being mocked, wearing a crown of thorns and being crucified between two thieves. It also includes some of His last words on the cross before giving up His spirit.
19. The Cross is the greatest revelation of God's divine nature. There is nothing anyone can do, say, or preach, that will reveal more about God than THE CROSS.
22. Isa. 53:1 Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
23. Isa. 53:2 For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: He hath no form nor comeliness; And when we shall see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him.
37. Isa. 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned every one, to his own way; And the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
38. Isa. 53:7 He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth:
39. Isa. 53:7 He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, So He openeth not His mouth.
40. Isa. 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: And who shall declare his generation? For He was cut off out of the land of the living: For the transgression of my people was He stricken.
41. Isa. 53:9 And He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; Because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth.
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43. Isa. 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
44. Isa. 53:11 He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied: By his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; For He shall bear their iniquities.
45. Isa. 53:12 Therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; Because He hath poured out His soul unto death: And He was numbered with the transgressors; And He bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
48. The spotless Son of God hung upon the cross, His flesh lacerated with stripes; Those hands so often reached out in blessing, nailed to the wooden bars; Those feet so tireless on ministries of love, spiked to the tree; That royal head pierced by the crown of thorns; those quivering lips shaped to the cry of woe.
49. And all that He endured, the blood drops that flowed from His head, His hands, His feet, the agony that racked His frame, and the unutterable anguish that filled His soul at the hiding of His Father's face, speaks to each child of humanity, declaring,
50. It is for thee, that the Son of God consents to bear this burden of guilt; For thee, He spoils the domain of death, and opens the gates of Paradise.
51. He who stilled the angry waves and walked the foam-capped billows, Who made devils tremble and disease flee, Who opened blind eyes and called forth the dead to life, Offers Himself upon the cross as a sacrifice, and this from love to thee.
52. He, The Sin Bearer, endures the wrath of divine justice, and for thy sake, becomes sin itself.
56. Righteousness Through Christ For God hath made Jesus to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Jesus 2 Cor. 5:21
57. Righteousness Through Christ The love existing between the Father and His Son cannot be portrayed. It is measureless. In Christ, God saw the beauty and perfection of excellence that dwells in Himself. Wonder, O heavens, and be astonished, O earth, for God spared not His own Son, but gave Him up to be made sin for us, that those who believe may be made the righteousness of God in Him. . . .