As they looked on, a change came over Jesus: his face was shining like the sun, and his clothes were dazzling white.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain, where they were alone. As they looked on, a change came over Jesus,

and his clothes became shining white---whiter than anyone in the world could wash them.

While he was praying, his face changed its appearance, and his clothes became dazzling white.

Reverence for the LORD is an education in itself. You must be humble before you can ever receive honors.

He was humiliated, and justice was denied him. No one will be able to tell about his descendants, because his life on earth has come to an end."

In the same way, Christ did not take upon himself the honor of being a high priest. Instead, God said to him, "You are my Son; today I have become your Father."

In his life on earth Jesus made his prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, who could save him from death. Because he was humble and devoted, God heard him.

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

You do not want sacrifices and offerings; you do not ask for animals burned whole on the altar or for sacrifices to take away sins. Instead, you have given me ears to hear you,

How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."

The LORD has given me understanding, and I have not rebelled or turned away from him.

I bared my back to those who beat me. I did not stop them when they insulted me, when they pulled out the hairs of my beard and spit in my face.

He went a little farther on, threw himself face downward on the ground, and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, take this cup of suffering from me! Yet not what I want, but what you want."

Once more Jesus went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cup of suffering cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will be done."

"My food," Jesus said to them, "is to obey the will of the one who sent me and to finish the work he gave me to do.

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

But even though he was God's Son, he learned through his sufferings to be obedient.

When he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey him,

Then I said, 'Here I am, to do your will, O God, just as it is written of me in the book of the Law.' "

Then he said, "Here I am, O God, to do your will." So God does away with all the old sacrifices and puts the sacrifice of Christ in their place.

it is not to remain there overnight. It must be buried the same day, because a dead body hanging on a post brings God's curse on the land. Bury the body, so that you will not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

An evil gang is around me; like a pack of dogs they close in on me; they tear at my hands and feet.

No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do."

Father, bring glory to your name!" Then a voice spoke from heaven, "I have brought glory to it, and I will do so again."

But Jesus said to them, "It was not for my sake that this voice spoke, but for yours.

When I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to me."

but the world must know that I love the Father; that is why I do everything as he commands me. "Come, let us go from this place.

But by becoming a curse for us Christ has redeemed us from the curse that the Law brings; for the scripture says, "Anyone who is hanged on a tree is under God's curse."

He gave himself for us, to rescue us from all wickedness and to make us a pure people who belong to him alone and are eager to do good.

Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, on whom our faith depends from beginning to end. He did not give up because of the cross! On the contrary, because of the joy that was waiting for him, he thought nothing of the disgrace of dying on the cross, and he is now seated at the right side of God's throne.

Christ himself carried our sins in his body to the cross, so that we might die to sin and live for righteousness. It is by his wounds that you have been healed.

For Christ died for sins once and for all, a good man on behalf of sinners, in order to lead you to God. He was put to death physically, but made alive spiritually,