So now, please allow me to stay here and be your slave, and let the young boy go back home with his brothers.
The servant said, “We will do as you say, but only the man who has taken the cup will become my slave. The rest of you may go free.”
“I gave my father a guarantee that the young boy would be safe. I said to my father, ‘If I don’t bring him back to you, you can blame me all my life.’
I cannot go back to my father if the boy is not with me. I couldn’t stand to see my father that sad.”
When David saw the angel that killed the people, he said to the Lord, “I am the one who sinned and did wrong. These people only followed me like sheep. They did nothing wrong. Please punish me and my family.”
Now, please forgive them of this sin. If you will not, then erase my name from the book in which you have written the names of your people.”
I wish I could help my Jewish brothers and sisters, my people. I would even wish that I were cursed and cut off from Christ if that would help them.
This means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement from God to his people.
This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave his life for us. So we should give our lives for our brothers and sisters.