For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
Parallel translations
- WEB For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”
- BSB For I tell you that this Scripture must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”
- NKJV For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in Me: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors.’ For the things concerning Me have an end.”
- NASB For I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me: ‘And He was counted with wrongdoers’; for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment.”
- NLT For the time has come for this prophecy about me to be fulfilled: ‘He was counted among the rebels.’ Yes, everything written about me by the prophets will come true.”
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Quick answer
Jesus says the Scripture, 'He was counted with transgressors,' must be fulfilled in Him. He sees His coming death as fulfilling prophecy.
Overview
Jesus applies Isaiah 53 to Himself, identifying as the suffering Servant numbered among lawbreakers. He understands His arrest and crucifixion as the deliberate fulfillment of God's redemptive plan. This is the gospel foretold: the sinless Christ treated as a criminal so that sinners might be counted righteous.
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Cross-references · 13
- Isa 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
- Luke 23:32And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
- 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
- Acts 13:27–29For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
- John 19:28–30After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
- John 17:4I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
- Luke 18:31Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
- John 10:35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
- Luke 22:22And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
- Luke 24:44–46And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
- Mark 15:27And with him they crucify two thieves; the one on his right hand, and the other on his left.
- Matt 26:54–56But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
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