"because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors;
yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors" (Isaiah 53:12).
He was numbered among the transgressors and makes intercession for them. His enemies gave him the title "friend of sinners", Jesus himself was called a drunkard and a glutton (Matthew 11:16-19). It was meant as an insult, but Jesus is a friend of sinners. He was afflicted for our transgressions.
“He had no form or majesty that we should look at him and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces“ (Isaiah 53:2-3). Isaiah spoke of Jesus, a man whom men would hide their faces, much like a homeless man holding a sign, not many look him in the eye. We have a high priest interceding for us who understands because he was afflicted and rejected.
While Jesus was eating at one of the Pharisees's house, a woman of the city, a sinner, came to the house. Weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment (Luke 7:36-39). The Pharisee thought to himself, does he not know she is a sinner, an unclean person.
“Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, 'This man receives sinners and eats with them'” (Luke 15:1-2). Jesus responds by telling them parables; if a shepherd has lost a sheep will he not leave the 99 and find the one lost, if a lady has 10 coins and loses one will she not look until she finds it, and if a son goes off and is away in sin, when he comes home, will not the father say, 'my son was lost but now is found!'
The Samaritan women at the well, the women accused of adultery "you without sin cast the first stone", Nicodemus at night, the leper he touched, the lame, the blind, the demon possessed... Even when Jesus was on the cross, suffering as no man has suffered, He befriended a thief. There is no greater love than someone would lay down their life for a friend. Jesus laid down his life for you, will you accept his friendship, he is Faithful and True.
Jesus, friend of sinners --Casting Crowns
yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors" (Isaiah 53:12).
He was numbered among the transgressors and makes intercession for them. His enemies gave him the title "friend of sinners", Jesus himself was called a drunkard and a glutton (Matthew 11:16-19). It was meant as an insult, but Jesus is a friend of sinners. He was afflicted for our transgressions.
“He had no form or majesty that we should look at him and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces“ (Isaiah 53:2-3). Isaiah spoke of Jesus, a man whom men would hide their faces, much like a homeless man holding a sign, not many look him in the eye. We have a high priest interceding for us who understands because he was afflicted and rejected.
While Jesus was eating at one of the Pharisees's house, a woman of the city, a sinner, came to the house. Weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment (Luke 7:36-39). The Pharisee thought to himself, does he not know she is a sinner, an unclean person.
“Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, 'This man receives sinners and eats with them'” (Luke 15:1-2). Jesus responds by telling them parables; if a shepherd has lost a sheep will he not leave the 99 and find the one lost, if a lady has 10 coins and loses one will she not look until she finds it, and if a son goes off and is away in sin, when he comes home, will not the father say, 'my son was lost but now is found!'
The Samaritan women at the well, the women accused of adultery "you without sin cast the first stone", Nicodemus at night, the leper he touched, the lame, the blind, the demon possessed... Even when Jesus was on the cross, suffering as no man has suffered, He befriended a thief. There is no greater love than someone would lay down their life for a friend. Jesus laid down his life for you, will you accept his friendship, he is Faithful and True.
Jesus, friend of sinners --Casting Crowns