Come Unto Me All You Who Labor

Yoke (PSF)

Isaiah 50:4  The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

 

Matthew 7:29  For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

 

Matthew 11:28  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

 

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

 

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Darkness Over The Whole Land

Rending of the veil by William Bell Scott (1869, priv.coll)

Isaiah 50:3 (KJV) I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”

 

Luke 23:44  And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

45 And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

 

 

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His Own Receiveth Him Not

Brooklyn Museum - Jesus Led from Herod to Pilate (Jésus emmené de Hérode à Pilate) - James Tissot

 

Isaiah 49:7 (KJV) Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

 

John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

 

John 8:48 Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.

 

John 19:14 And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.

 

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