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"No Greater Love"

Psalm 22
A Psalm of David...written about 1000 years before Christ...describing
the Crucifixion in detail. Jesus used these Words from the cross.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded. But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother's breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou [art] my God from my mother's belly. Be not far from me; for trouble [is] near; for [there is] none to help. Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look [and] stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee. Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel. For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever. All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom [is] the LORD'S: and he [is] the governor among the nations. All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [this].

Isaiah 50: 6-7: "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. For the LORD GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed."

Isaiah 52: 13-15: "Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonied 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 they shall see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider."

Isaiah 53: "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."

Unbelievably, I have actually run across websites that state that Isaiah 53 declares that God had an ugly, deformed, hunch-backed...even leprous Son! The Truth is, based on actual ancient Hebrew translations, that we are looking from Isaiah's time into the time of our Lord's crucifixion. His "visage" ("appearance") was, of course, terribly "marred" and "disfigured" by beatings... with bruises on His face, blood from thorn wounds, a probable injured lip and abrasions on His nose...all of which can be seen on the Shroud. His "form" (figure), too, was horribly scourged by Roman whips which had torn His flesh to the muscle. "Comeliness" here, besides "beauty", is translated more to the words "magnificence" and "splendor"...and "honor"...meaning that He, in His "affliction", had been "brought low"..."not of high or proud countenance".... "without honor"...which is also why they esteemed Him not. Our humble, bleeding, bruised, and wounded Messiah was, at that point near death, and not a beauty to behold...and the people turned their faces from Him. However, Psalm 45:2 makes it very clear that our Lord abounds in beauty: "Thou art fairer (more beautiful) than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee forever".

That is precisely why I recommend that people study the Bible correctly, and with the aid of a "Strong's Exhaustive Concordance". I have pity for anyone who could possibly believe that God would have sent a Son with anything other than beauty, majesty, and honor. He has them all...still.