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Barnabas says the Master surrendered his flesh so sins might be released and the people cleansed.
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He reads Yeshayahu's suffering-servant language as pointing to Yahushua: wounded for transgressions, bruised for sins, led like a sheep to slaughter.
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He gives thanks because the past has been revealed, the present made understandable, and the future not left completely hidden.
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He warns that a person who knows the Way of Righteousness but forces himself into darkness perishes justly.
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He asks why the Master of the world endured suffering at human hands and answers that the nevi'im had spoken concerning him beforehand.
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He says Yahushua came embodied so death might be destroyed and resurrection manifested.
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He connects this with the promises to the fathers and with a new people prepared for Judgment.
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He recalls Yahushua teaching Yisra'el and doing signs.
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He says the emissaries chosen to proclaim the Besorah were themselves sinners, showing that the call was directed toward sinners rather than the self-declared righteous.
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He argues that embodiment was necessary because human beings could not endure the unveiled glory of the One through whom creation was made.
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He interprets the suffering as completing the measure of hostility against the nevi'im.
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He cites the struck shepherd, the tree, pierced flesh, the hostile assembly, the offered back, and the face set firm as prophetic signs of the suffering.