Numbers 21:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it on a pole. Then when a snake bit anyone, that person looked at the bronze snake on the pole and lived.

Cross References

Hebrews 12:2

We must never stop looking to Jesus. He is the leader of our faith, and he is the one who makes our faith complete. He suffered death on a cross. But he accepted the shame of the cross as if it were nothing because of the joy he could see waiting for him. And now he is sitting at the right side of God’s throne.

John 6:40

Everyone who sees the Son and believes in him has eternal life. I will raise them up on the last day. This is what my Father wants.”

2 Kings 18:4

Hezekiah destroyed the high places. He broke the memorial stones and cut down the Asherah poles. At that time the Israelites burned incense to the bronze snake made by Moses. This bronze snake was called “Nehushtan.” Hezekiah broke this bronze snake into pieces.

John 12:32

I will be lifted up from the earth. When that happens, I will draw all people to myself.”

Isaiah 45:22

So all you people in faraway places, turn to me and be saved, because I am God, and there is no other.

Romans 8:3

The law was without power because it was made weak by our sinful selves. But God did what the law could not do: He sent his own Son to earth with the same human life that everyone else uses for sin. God sent him to be an offering to pay for sin. So God used a human life to destroy sin.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ had no sin, but God made him become sin so that in Christ we could be right with God.

Romans 1:17

The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself. God’s way of making people right begins and ends with faith. As the Scriptures say, “The one who is right with God by faith will live forever.”

1 John 3:8

The devil has been sinning since the beginning. Anyone who continues to sin belongs to the devil. The Son of God came for this: to destroy the devil’s work.

Zechariah 12:10

I will fill David’s family and the people living in Jerusalem with a spirit of kindness and mercy. They will look to me, the one they stabbed, and they will be very sad. They will be as sad as someone crying over the death of their only son, as sad as someone crying over the death of their firstborn son.

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God. He takes away the sins of the world!