How then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must happen this way?

But all this is happening that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

i1 [To the Chief Musician. Aijeleth Shahar. A Psalm of David.] i0 par My Mighty God, My Mighty God, why have You forsaken Me, and are far from My deliverance, and from the words of My groaning?

But You are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel.

They cried to You, and were delivered; they trusted in You, and were not ashamed.

All who see Me mock Me; they shoot out the lip; they shake the head, saying,

For You are He who took Me out of the womb, causing Me to trust while on My mother's breasts.

Be not far from Me, for trouble is near; for there is no one to help.

They have gaped at Me with their mouths, like a tearing and roaring lion.

My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and My tongue clings to My jaws; and You have brought Me into the dust of death.

I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me.

But You, O Jehovah, be not far from Me; O My Strength, make haste to help Me!

Deliver Me from the lion's mouth; from the horns of the oryx. You have answered Me.

You who fear Jehovah, praise Him! All you seed of Jacob, glorify Him; and fear Him all you seed of Israel!

My praise shall be of You in the great assembly; I will make good My vows before those who fear Him.

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Jehovah; and all the families of the nations shall bow down before You.

All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and bow down; all those who go down to the dust shall bow before Him, for no one can keep alive his own soul.

They shall come, and shall declare His righteousness to a people that shall yet be born, that He has done this.

i1 [To the chief Musician. Shoshannim. A Psalm of David.] i0 par Deliver me, O God; for the waters have come in upon my soul!

I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

O God, You know my folly, and my guilt is not hidden from You.

because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen upon Me.

I also made sackcloth my clothing, and I became a byword to them.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Jehovah, in a favorable time; O God, in the multitude of Your mercies hear me, in the truth of Your salvation.

Do not let the flood of waters overflow me, nor let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.

And hide not Your face from Your servant; for I am in trouble; hear me speedily.

You have known My reproach, and My shame, and My dishonor; My enemies are all before You.

They also gave Me gall for my food; and in My thirst they gave Me vinegar to drink.

The Lord Jehovah has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backwards.

I gave My back to those who strike, and My cheeks to those who pluck; I hid not My face from shame and spitting.

Who has believed Our report? And to whom has the arm of Jehovah been revealed?

He is despised and rejected by men; a Man of pain, and knowing infirmity; a hiding of faces; being despised, we have esteemed Him not.

But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.

He has been oppressed, and He was afflicted; yet He opens not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a sheep before its shearers is mute, so He opens not His mouth.

And His grave was assigned with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; although He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth.

He shall see the travail of His soul, and shall be fulfilled. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify many; for He shall bear their iniquities.

And after sixty two weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of a coming ruler shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end shall be with a flood, and desolations are determined, and there shall be war until the end.

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and supplication. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they shall be bitter over Him, like the bitterness over the firstborn.

Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, says Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.

And He answered and said to them, Truly, Elijah comes first and restores all things. And how it is written concerning the Son of Man, that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt.

Then He said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken.

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

And He said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

They said therefore among themselves, Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be, that the Scripture might be fulfilled which says: They divided My garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots. Therefore the soldiers did these things.

After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst!

For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, Not one of His bones shall be broken.

And again another Scripture says, They shall look on Him whom they pierced.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him.

Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

And Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Therefore, having obtained help from God, to this day I stand, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said would come to be;

that the Christ would suffer, that He would be the first to rise from the dead, and would proclaim light to the Jewish people and to the Gentiles.

So when they had appointed him a day, many came to him at his lodging, to whom he explained and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus from both the Law of Moses and the Prophets, from morning till evening.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

searching for what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand of the sufferings of Christ and the glories after these things.

And truly the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!

Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death;

to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks, for stumbling blocks must come; but woe to that man by whom the stumbling block comes!

Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing that He was condemned, repented and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

And he threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and departed, and went and hanged himself.

Let death seize them, and let them go down alive into Sheol; for evil is among them and in their dwellings.

But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in You.

Set a wicked man over him, and let Satan stand at his right hand.

Let his days be few, and let another take his office.

Let his children continually be vagabonds, and beg; let them seek their bread also from the waste.

Let there be no one to extend mercy to him, nor any to show favor to his fatherless children.

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before Jehovah, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

because he did not remember to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, even to kill the disheartened.

As he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, so let it enter his body like water, and like oil into his bones.

The Son of Man truly goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had never been born.

While I was with them in the world, I cared for them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have guarded; and not one of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

Men and brethren, this Scripture needed to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who took Jesus;

(Now this man procured a field out of the wages of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his entrails poured out.

For it is written in the book of Psalms: Let his dwelling place become desolate, and let him not live in it; and, Let another take his office.