Every high priest is appointed to present offerings and animal sacrifices to God, and so our High Priest must also have something to offer.

For this reason, when Christ was about to come into the world, he said to God: "You do not want sacrifices and offerings, but you have prepared a body for me.

I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel."

Well then, the Lord himself will give you a sign: a young woman who is pregnant will have a son and will name him 'Immanuel.'

The royal line of David is like a tree that has been cut down; but just as new branches sprout from a stump, so a new king will arise from among David's descendants.

It was the will of the LORD that his servant grow like a plant taking root in dry ground. He had no dignity or beauty to make us take notice of him. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him.

"But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain that we should have borne. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God.

All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the LORD made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved.

He was arrested and sentenced and led off to die, and no one cared about his fate. He was put to death for the sins of our people.

The LORD says, "It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness. And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life, and through him my purpose will succeed.

What the Law could not do, because human nature was weak, God did. He condemned sin in human nature by sending his own Son, who came with a nature like our sinful nature, to do away with sin.

But when the right time finally came, God sent his own Son. He came as the son of a human mother and lived under the Jewish Law,

Instead of this, of his own free will he gave up all he had, and took the nature of a servant. He became like a human being and appeared in human likeness.

For this reason God raised him to the highest place above and gave him the name that is greater than any other name.

You came to him with great blessings and set a crown of gold on his head.

His glory is great because of your help; you have given him fame and majesty.

He has been raised to the right side of God, his Father, and has received from him the Holy Spirit, as he had promised. What you now see and hear is his gift that he has poured out on us.

His eyes were like a flame of fire, and he wore many crowns on his head. He had a name written on him, but no one except himself knows what it is.

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

But God has shown us how much he loves us---it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!

So then, as the one sin condemned all people, in the same way the one righteous act sets all people free and gives them life.

Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son---will he not also freely give us all things?

Christ was without sin, but for our sake God made him share our sin in order that in union with him we might share the righteousness of God.

In our work together with God, then, we beg you who have received God's grace not to let it be wasted.

And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.

This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.

"And why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow: they do not work or make clothes for themselves.

And he went on to say, "I tell you, there are some here who will not die until they have seen the Kingdom of God come with power."

I assure you that there are some here who will not die until they have seen the Kingdom of God."

They said to him, "Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Abraham died, and the prophets died, yet you say that whoever obeys your teaching will never die.

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to me."

He died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but only for him who died and was raised to life for their sake.

who gave himself to redeem the whole human race. That was the proof at the right time that God wants everyone to be saved,

And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.

They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.