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Bible Verses About Strife: Christ, an example of avoiding

12 verses · 57 aspects

Verses on Christ, an example of avoiding

  1. He will not cry or shout; no one will hear his voice in the streets.

  2. Aware of this, he left that area. Many people followed him; and he healed them all

  3. but warned them not to make him known.

  4. This was to fulfill what had been spoken through Yesha`yahu the prophet,

  5. "Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved, with whom I am well pleased; I will put my Spirit on him, and he will announce justice to the Gentiles.

  6. He will not fight or shout, no one will hear his voice in the streets;

  7. He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village in Shomron to make preparations for him.

  8. However, the people there would not let him stay, because his destination was Yerushalayim.

  9. When the talmidim Ya‘akov and Yochanan saw this, they said, “Sir, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to destroy them?”

  10. But he turned and rebuked them.

  11. And they went on to another village.

  12. When he was insulted, he didn’t retaliate with insults; when he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but handed them over to him who judges justly.