Verse 3

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written,“The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:9 : 9 Certainly zeal for your house consumes me; I endure the insults of those who insult you.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.
  • Phil 2:8 : 8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death– even death on a cross!
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings. 7 Then I say,“Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me. 8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed,“My Father, if possible, let this cup pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
  • Matt 26:42 : 42 He went away a second time and prayed,“My Father, if this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
  • Ps 69:20 : 20 Their insults are painful and make me lose heart; I look for sympathy, but receive none, for comforters, but find none.
  • Ps 89:50-51 : 50 Take note, O Lord, of the way your servants are taunted, and of how I must bear so many insults from people! 51 Your enemies, O LORD, hurl insults; they insult your chosen king as they dog his footsteps.
  • Matt 10:25 : 25 It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house‘Beelzebul,’ how much worse will they call the members of his household!
  • John 8:29 : 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
  • John 14:30-31 : 30 I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me, 31 but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • John 15:24 : 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.