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Isaiah 53:5–11 GB

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was broken for our iniquities: the chastisemẽt of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like shepe have gone astraie: we have turned everie one to his owne way, and the Lord hathe layed upon him the iniquitie of us all. He was oppressed, & he was afflicted, yet did he not opẽ his mouth: he is broght as a shepe to the slaughter, and as a shepe before her shearer is dumme, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken out from prison, and frõ judgement: & who shal declare his age? for he was cut out of the lãd of the livĩg: for the transgression of my people was he plagued. And he made his grave with yͤ wicked, and with the riche in his death, thogh he had done no wickednes, nether was anie deceite in his mouth. Yet the Lord wolde breake him, & make him subject to infirmities: whẽ he shal make his soule an offring for sinne, he shal se his sede & shal prolong his daies, and the wil of the Lord shal prosper in his hand. He shal se of the travaile of his soule, & shalbe satisfied: by his knowledge shal my righteous servant justifie manie: for he shal beare their iniquities.

Isaiah 9:6–7 GB

For unto us a Childe is borne, & unto us a sonne is givẽ: & the government is upõ his shulder, & he shal call his name Wonderful, Coũseller, The mightie God, The everlastĩg Father, The prince of peace, The increase of his government and peace shal have none end: he shal sit upõ the throne of David, & upon his kingdome, to order it, and to stablish it with judgement and with justice, from hence forthe, evẽ for ever the zeale of the Lord of hostes wil performe this.

Matthew 1:18–25 CCNTP:T

Now the birth of Jesus Christ happened this way. His mother Mary was engaged to Joseph; but before they began to live together, it was discovered that she was going to have a baby by the Holy Spirit. Joseph, her husband, a just man, didn’t want to make a public example of her, so he decided to divorce her secretly. But during the time he was reflecting upon these matters, by a dream an angel appeared to him, saying, Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take Mary, your wife, because what is conceived in her is by the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a Son, and you must name Him Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins. Now all this happened in fulfillment of what the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and they will call Him by His name Emmanuel (which means “God with us”). When Joseph woke from sleep, he did what the angel from the Lord ordered, and took Mary, his wife. But he had no sexual relations with her until she had given birth to a Son, Whom he named Jesus.

Matthew 3:13–17 CCNTP:T

At that time Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan to be baptized by him. But he tried to stop Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You; and You come to me?” But Jesus answered by saying to him, “Allow it to take place for now, since it is proper for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him to come. Now when Jesus was baptized, He immediately went away from the water, and then the heavens were opened, and He saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove, coming upon Him. Then there was a voice from the heavens, saying, “This is My Son Whom I love, in Whom I am well pleased.”

Hebrews 12:1–4 CCNTP:T

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must put off every weight and the sin that is so readily found all around us, and we must run the race that has been set before us with perseverance, looking off to Jesus the Author and Completer of our faith, Who, for the joy that had been set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of God’s throne. Consider Him Who endured such opposition from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t get tired and give up— in your struggle against sin you haven’t yet had to resist to the point of shedding your blood.

Mark 2:13–17 CCNTP:T

Then He went out again alongside the sea, and the whole crowd came to Him and He taught them. Now while passing by He saw Levi, Alphaeus’ son, sitting at the tax collector’s office, and He said to him, “Follow Me.” And he got up and followed Him. And it happened that as He sat eating in his house many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and His disciples (there were many who followed Him). But when the Pharisees’ scribes saw that He was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, “He is eating with tax collectors and sinners!” Now when Jesus heard this He said, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but only those who are sick. I didn’t come to call righteous people, but sinners.”

Luke 2:1–11 CCNTP:T

Now in those days a decree went forth from Caesar Augustus that a census of the whole Roman Empire was to be taken. (This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) So everybody went to be enrolled, each to his own city. Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth to Judea, to David’s city, Bethlehem, because he was from David’s house and family, to be enrolled with Mary his wife, who was pregnant. Now it happened that while they were there the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her first-born Son, and wrapped Him in strips of cloth and laid Him in a manger, because there wasn’t any place for them in the inn. In the vicinity there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night. And an angel from the Lord came upon them, and the Lord’s glory shone around them, and they became deeply afraid. But the angel said to them, Don’t be afraid. Listen, I am announcing to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people, because to you there is born today in David’s city a Savior, Who is Christ the Lord.

Luke 3:21–22 CCNTP:T

When all the people were baptized, Jesus was baptized, too, and as He was praying the sky opened, and the Holy Spirit came down upon Him in a bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from the sky: “You are My dear Son; I am well pleased with You.”

John 1:1–14 CCNTP:T

At the beginning, the Word already existed, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. Everything came into being through Him, and without Him not one thing came into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of human beings. The Light is shining in the darkness and the darkness hasn’t suppressed it. A man named John appeared who was sent from God. He came to testify about the Light so that all might believe through him. He wasn’t the Light himself, but he came to testify about the Light. The genuine Light that gives light to every person came into the world. He was in the world, and the world came into being through Him, but the world didn’t know Him. He came to His own creation, and His own people didn’t receive Him. But to as many as did receive Him, He gave the right to become God’s children; to those who believe in His name, who were born neither of blood, nor of the will of the flesh nor the will of man, but of God. Now the Word became flesh and tented among us, and we saw His glory, glory like that which a unique son receives from his father, full of grace and truth.

John 14:6 CCNTP:T

Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. Nobody comes to the Father except through Me.

Philippians 2:5–11 CCNTP:T

You must think about yourselves what Christ Jesus thought about Himself. He, while existing in the form of God, didn’t consider His equality with God something to be graspingly held onto at all costs, but, instead he emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming like a human being. Being found in human appearance, He humbled Himself, becoming obedient even to the point of death—death by a cross! As a result, God highly exalted Him and gave to Him the name above all names, so that at this name that He gave Jesus every knee of heavenly beings and earthly beings and beings under the earth should bend, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is LORD to the glory of God the Father.

Hebrews 4:14–15 CCNTP:T

Since, then, we have a great High Priest Who has gone through the heavens—Jesus, God’s Son—let us hold to our confession. We don’t have a high priest who isn’t able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One Who has been tempted in every way that we are, yet without sin.