whether the Christ was liable to suffer, whether first by a resurrection from the dead He was going to proclaim a light to the people and to the nations.
I, Jehovah, have called You in righteousness, and will hold up Your hand, and will keep You, and give You for a covenant of the people, for a Light of the nations;
And He said, It is but trifling that You should be My servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the ones preserved of Israel; I will also give You for a light of the nations, that You may be My salvation to the end of the earth.
And I will pour out on the house of David, and on those living in Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of prayers. 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 first-born.
O sword, awake against My Shepherd, and against the Man who is My Associate, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be scattered. And I will turn My hand on the little ones.
Indeed, the Son of Man goes, as it has been written about Him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is given over. It were good for him if that man was never born.
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This command I received from My Father.
And that He raised Him from the dead, no more being about to return to corruption, therefore He has said, “I will give You” “the faithful and holy things of David.” Isaiah 55:3
to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness into light, and from the authority of Satan onto God, in order for them to receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the ones being sanctified by faith into Me.
in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the faithless ones, so that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.
For it was fitting for Him, because of whom are all things, and through whom are all things, bringing many sons into glory, to make complete Him as the Author of their salvation through sufferings.
even from Jesus Christ the faithful Witness, the First-begotten out of the dead ones, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To the One loving us and having washed us from our sins by His blood,