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Isaiah 50:6

I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;
I did not hide my face
from mocking and spitting.

Isaiah 52:13

The Suffering and Glory of the Servant. See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at him - his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness- so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him.
For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.

Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Savior of all mankind, was whipped, beaten and nailed to the cross for our sins. His blood alone could pay for our sins against God.

Matthew 26:67

They spit in his face and struck him with their fists.

John 5:24

"I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life.

John 19:18-20

Here they crucified him, and with him two others--one on each side and Jesus in the middle.
Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.

Isaiah 53
Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his ppearance 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.

Jesus didn't come as a king or a mighty warrior, but as a humble servant and teacher or rabbi.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Philippians 2:8

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death– even death on a cross!

Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Jesus Christ was pierced or nailed to the cross. We are all sinners in need of the forgiveness that is extended to us through the simple belief that God loves us and sent His one and only Son to die in our place on the cross, as payment for all the wrong that we've done.

From Matthew 26:26 we read that on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread Jesus told his disciples, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.' " While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."
Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

Take notice that Jesus called the Unleavened Bread his "body"...now take a close look at the unleavened bread used during the Passover meal (Seder) today, and read Isaiah 53 again. His body was pierced (like the Matzoh bread) and we are healed by his stripes (wounds). Its no coincidence that the Matzoh cracker is both pierced and striped.

He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. By oppression and judgment he was taken away. And who can speak of his escendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Jesus is the Lamb of God. The perfect sacrifice, unlike any other. He literally died on the cross and his body was laid to rest in a tomb. On the 3rd day Jesus rose from the dead, having conquered death. 50 days later he ascended to heaven, where he now sits on the throne at the right hand of God.

John 19:41-42

At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there

Yet it was the LORD's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the LORD will prosper in his hand. After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isaiah describes this suffering servant as a literal sacrifice or guilt offering acceptible to the Lord. Nowhere else in the history of the Bible has a man been a sacrifice for God.

Those who know Jesus through faith that he is who he said he was, the Son of God, will be justified.

Jesus will share his inheritance from God, everlasting Life in Heaven, with those who trust in Him.

The only way to God the Father is through the Son, Jesus Christ.

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Zechariah 12:10-14

And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication.

Written around 520 B.C.

Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, was nailed to the cross to die for your sins.

John 19:33-37

But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken," and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."

On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be
great, like the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan and their wives, the clan of the house of Levi and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, and all the rest of the clans and their wives.

Zechariah 13:6

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

Colossians 1:19-21

For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

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Psalm 22:1

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Psalm 22:14-18

I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you lay me in the dust of death. Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.

The Spirit of Christ, which spoke through the prophets, testifies in this Psalm by David.

The crucifixion of Jesus, a descendant of David through his mother's lineage, is described as his bones are out of joint, his mouth is dry or he is silent like 'a lamb led to slaughter'.

The Jews never used crucifixion as a method of death, yet here it is described in detail, as it was to be carried out according to God's will by the Romans in Jerusalem hundreds of years in the future from the time the 22nd Psalm was first written.

The main objection to the translation of this scripture revolves around the word 'PIERCE'. In the Hebrew Massoretic text, in Psalm 22 the word 'caari which when translated from the Jewish Bible reads 'Like a lion' they are at my hands and my feet'. However in the 3rd century B.C.E. translation into Greek of The Septuagint ( the Hebrew Old Testament,) designated the word 'carri' as 'carru' which means 'to pierce.' This proves that 250 years before Jesus crucifiction, the Rabbis were translating this word as 'pierced'.

Mark 15:34

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"–which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"[

John 19:32-37

The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced Jesus' side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water. The man who saw it has given testimony, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."[

John 19:23-24

When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.
"Let's not tear it," they said to one another. "Let's decide by lot who will get it."
This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled which said, "They divided my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing."So this is what the soldiers did.

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There is much controversey over 'who killed Jesus' in anticipation of the release of Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion'. Sadly, this is a distraction from the actual message of Salvation for mankind. The truth is that we all killed Jesus, since he died for OUR SINS, yours and mine included. Other than proving that Jesus is the Son of God via the fullfilment of prophecy, the matter of who was responsible for Jesus' crucifixion (the Jews or the Romans) is hardly important to the message of John 3:16, that "whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. . . For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
Isaiah 53:6-8

He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Romans 4:25

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