The One Shepherd
Ezekiel 34:23 God has just denounced Israel’s leaders, the ‘shepherds’ who fed themselves while the flock scattered, starved, and fell prey to wild animals. Against that backdrop of failed leadership,…
Jesus Christ in the Pages of the Old Testament
Ezekiel 34:23 God has just denounced Israel’s leaders, the ‘shepherds’ who fed themselves while the flock scattered, starved, and fell prey to wild animals. Against that backdrop of failed leadership,…
Lamentations 3:22-23 Surrounded by the ruins of Jerusalem, in a book otherwise filled with grief, the prophet uttered: Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every…
Jeremiah 23:5-6 ‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord, ‘That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, And execute judgment and…
Isaiah 61:1-2 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind…
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore, I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and…
Isaiah 53:9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his…
Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers…
Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Isaiah 52:13-53:12 presents the portrait of the Suffering Servant, a messianic figure whose mission combines suffering, rejection, and glory. The passage begins in Isaiah 52:13 with the exaltation…
Isaiah 50:6 This verse portrays the Suffering Servant as one who voluntarily endures humiliation, rejection, and physical suffering on behalf of others. Matthew 26:67-68 records how Jesus endured mocking, flogging,…
Isaiah 49:6 Indeed He says,‘It is too small a thing that You should be My ServantTo raise up the tribes of Jacob,And to restore the preserved ones of Israel;I will…