Mark 9:12 Cross References

Mark 9:12

12: Jesus responded, "Elijah is indeed coming first to set everything in order. Why then is it written in the Scriptures that the Son of Man must suffer and be treated with utter contempt?

Isaiah 53:1

  1. Who has believed our message? To whom will the LORD reveal his saving power?
  2. My servant grew up in the LORD's presence like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.
  3. He was despised and rejected--a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we did not care.
  4. Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God for his own sins!
  5. But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed!

Isaiah 50:6

  1. I give my back to those who beat me and my cheeks to those who pull out my beard. I do not hide from shame, for they mock me and spit in my face.

Luke 23:11

  1. Now Herod and his soldiers began mocking and ridiculing Jesus. Then they put a royal robe on him and sent him back to Pilate.

Isaiah 49:7

  1. The LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, says to the one who is despised and rejected by a nation, to the one who is the servant of rulers: "Kings will stand at attention when you pass by. Princes will bow low because the LORD has chosen you. He, the faithful LORD, the Holy One of Israel, chooses you."

Isaiah 52:14

  1. Many were amazed when they saw him--beaten and bloodied, so disfigured one would scarcely know he was a person.

Luke 1:16

  1. And he will persuade many Israelites to turn to the Lord their God.
  2. He will be a man with the spirit and power of Elijah, the prophet of old. He will precede the coming of the Lord, preparing the people for his arrival. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and he will change disobedient minds to accept godly wisdom."

Isaiah 40:3

  1. Listen! I hear the voice of someone shouting, "Make a highway for the LORD through the wilderness. Make a straight, smooth road through the desert for our God.
  2. Fill the valleys and level the hills. Straighten out the curves and smooth off the rough spots.
  3. Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it together. The LORD has spoken!"

Matthew 3:1

  1. In those days John the Baptist began preaching in the Judean wilderness. His message was,
  2. "Turn from your sins and turn to God, because the Kingdom of Heaven is near. "
  3. Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"
  4. John's clothes were woven from camel hair, and he wore a leather belt; his food was locusts and wild honey.
  5. People from Jerusalem and from every section of Judea and from all over the Jordan Valley went out to the wilderness to hear him preach.

Malachi 4:6

  1. His preaching will turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the hearts of children to their parents. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse."

Matthew 11:2

  1. John the Baptist, who was now in prison, heard about all the things the Messiah was doing. So he sent his disciples to ask Jesus,
  2. "Are you really the Messiah we've been waiting for, or should we keep looking for someone else?"
  3. Jesus told them, "Go back to John and tell him about what you have heard and seen--
  4. the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.
  5. And tell him: 'God blesses those who are not offended by me. '"

Psalms 69:1

  1. Save me, O God, for the floodwaters are up to my neck.
  2. Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire; I can't find a foothold to stand on. I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me.
  3. I am exhausted from crying for help; my throat is parched and dry. My eyes are swollen with weeping, waiting for my God to help me.
  4. Those who hate me without cause are more numerous than the hairs on my head. These enemies who seek to destroy me are doing so without cause. They attack me with lies, demanding that I give back what I didn't steal.
  5. O God, you know how foolish I am; my sins cannot be hidden from you.

Zechariah 13:7

  1. "Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, the man who is my partner, says the LORD Almighty. Strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn against the lambs.

Psalms 22:1

  1. My God, my God! Why have you forsaken me? Why do you remain so distant? Why do you ignore my cries for help?
  2. Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer. Every night you hear my voice, but I find no relief.
  3. Yet you are holy. The praises of Israel surround your throne.
  4. Our ancestors trusted in you, and you rescued them.
  5. You heard their cries for help and saved them. They put their trust in you and were never disappointed.

Philippians 2:7

  1. He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form.
  2. And in human form he obediently humbled himself even further by dying a criminal's death on a cross.

Psalms 74:22

  1. Arise, O God, and defend your cause. Remember how these fools insult you all day long.

John 1:6

  1. God sent John the Baptist
  2. to tell everyone about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony.
  3. John himself was not the light; he was only a witness to the light.
  4. The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was going to come into the world.
  5. But although the world was made through him, the world didn't recognize him when he came.

Matthew 26:24

  1. For I, the Son of Man, must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for my betrayer. Far better for him if he had never been born!"

Mark 1:2

  1. In the book of the prophet Isaiah, God said, "Look, I am sending my messenger before you, and he will prepare your way.
  2. He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"
  3. This messenger was John the Baptist. He lived in the wilderness and was preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
  4. People from Jerusalem and from all over Judea traveled out into the wilderness to see and hear John. And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.
  5. His clothes were woven from camel hair, and he wore a leather belt; his food was locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 16:21

  1. From then on Jesus began to tell his disciples plainly that he had to go to Jerusalem, and he told them what would happen to him there. He would suffer at the hands of the leaders and the leading priests and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, and he would be raised on the third day.

John 3:27

  1. John replied, "God in heaven appoints each person's work.
  2. You yourselves know how plainly I told you that I am not the Messiah. I am here to prepare the way for him--that is all.
  3. The bride will go where the bridegroom is. A bridegroom's friend rejoices with him. I am the bridegroom's friend, and I am filled with joy at his success.
  4. He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less.

Zechariah 11:13

  1. And the LORD said to me, "Throw it to the potters "--this magnificent sum at which they valued me! So I took the thirty coins and threw them to the potters in the Temple of the LORD.

Luke 23:39

  1. One of the criminals hanging beside him scoffed, "So you're the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself--and us, too, while you're at it!"

Luke 3:2

  1. Annas and Caiaphas were the high priests. At this time a message from God came to John son of Zechariah, who was living out in the wilderness.
  2. Then John went from place to place on both sides of the Jordan River, preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
  3. Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!
  4. Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills! Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places!
  5. And then all people will see the salvation sent from God.'"

Luke 1:76

  1. "And you, my little son, will be called the prophet of the Most High, because you will prepare the way for the Lord.

Daniel 9:24

  1. "A period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for your people and your holy city to put down rebellion, to bring an end to sin, to atone for guilt, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to confirm the prophetic vision, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  2. Now listen and understand! Seven sets of seven plus sixty-two sets of seven will pass from the time the command is given to rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, despite the perilous times.
  3. "After this period of sixty-two sets of seven, the Anointed One will be killed, appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise whose armies will destroy the city and the Temple. The end will come with a flood, and war and its miseries are decreed from that time to the very end.
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