HE Speaks...Very Truly I Tell You

A Bible Study:  “Very Truly I tell you”...Points to the Deity of Jesus...and the Reality of HEAVEN

 

IN HIS LIFE:

Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you…

 

DAY 3

Mark 14:18-21,62  ¹⁸ While they were reclining at the table eating…HE said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”  ²⁰ “It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me. ²¹ The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him.”

Foreshadowing: THE ACT to come that WILL bring Redemption for mankind…confirming the early written scripture…IS GOD breathed…and that HE WAS…IS…And IS to COME!

After HE was betrayed and arrested:  Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”  ⁶² “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

Reference: Confirms the deity of Christ…He IS from God…and HE WILL be THE One who redeems his church…preparing THE to get to Heaven!

Prophesies Revealed: 

Psalm 41:9: Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

Zechariah 11:12-13:  I told them, "If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it." So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. 

In Psalm 41:9, King David wrote a prayer asking for mercy in his last days. In this prayer, which Christians acknowledge as being inspired by God, David wrote about a betrayal at the hand of a close friend with whom he had shared bread. This foreshadowed something that happened years later with Jesus.

In Zechariah 11:4-17, the prophet speaks of a payment involving 30 pieces of silver and of a good shepherd whose service is brought to an end. This foreshadows an event that happened to Jesus about 500 years later.