He Who Knew No Sin, Became Sin For Us, So We Could Believe In Him, Be Forgiven, & Enter Into the Kingdom of God

1.) "And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." (Luke 22:44)

* hematidrosis: a rare condition in which the human body sweats blood under extreme stress *

2.) "No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." (John 10:18)

3.) "I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep." (John 10:11)

* "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13) *

4.) "Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider." (Isaiah 52: 13-15)

5.) "And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands." (John 19: 2-3)

* "...That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." (Matthew 5:39) * 

6.) "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting." (Isaiah 50:6)

* "For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain." (Psalm 139:20) *

7.) "Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;" (Matthew 27: 50-51)

8.) "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in the time of need." (Hebrews 4:16)

9.) "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1st Peter 2:24)

* "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree" (Galatians 3:13) *

10.) "And Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." (Hebrews 9:22)