Tuesday, April 11, 2006
The Suffering Servant (PART I)
“He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground.”
“And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” (Luke 2:52)
“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”
“…an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. ‘Get up,’ he said, ‘take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.’” (Matthew 2:13)
“Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded him to leave their region.” (Matthew 8:34)
“And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, ‘Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor.’” (Matthew 13:57)
“’I tell you the truth,’ Jesus answered, ‘before Abraham was born, I am!’ At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.” (John 8:58, 59)
"Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted." (Isaiah 53:2-4 NIV)
“And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” (Luke 2:52)
“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”
“…an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. ‘Get up,’ he said, ‘take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.’” (Matthew 2:13)
“Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded him to leave their region.” (Matthew 8:34)
“And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, ‘Only in his hometown and in his own house is a prophet without honor.’” (Matthew 13:57)
“’I tell you the truth,’ Jesus answered, ‘before Abraham was born, I am!’ At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.” (John 8:58, 59)
"Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted." (Isaiah 53:2-4 NIV)
# posted by Wesley Son of Cornelius @ 10:17 AM 
