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fifty reasons why jesus came to die

JOHN PIPER

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WHEATON, ILLINOIS

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Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die

Formerly published as The Passion of Jesus Christ

Copyright ? 2006 by Desiring God Foundation

Published by Crossway 1300 Crescent Street Wheaton, Illinois

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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are taken from the ESV? Bible (The Holy Bible: English Standard Version?). Copyright ? 2001 by Crossway. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Cover design: Josh Dennis

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First printing, 2006

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Piper, John, 1946-

Fifty reasons why Jesus came to die / John Piper.

p. cm.

ISBN 13: 978-1-58134-788-3

ISBN 10: 1-58134-788-X (TPB : alk. paper)

1. Jesus Christ--Passion. I. Title.

BT431.3.P57 2006

232.96--dc22

2003026596

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Jesus Christ

Despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief . . . we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth;

like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he opened not his mouth. . . .

He was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people. . . .

There was no deceit in his mouth. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;

he has put him to grief.

The prophet Isaiah Chapter 53, Verses 3-10

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