<p>18:33 <i>And they shall scourge and kill him, and on the third day he shall rise again</i>- The scourging alludes to the punishments upon Israel in Josh. 22:13. Indeed so many of the judgments on Israel were experienced by Jesus on the Cross:</p><p>Hos. 2:3,6 = Mt. 27:27-29; Jn. 19:28<br />Josh. 22:13 = Lk. 18:33<br />Ps. 89:30-32; Is. 28:18 = Mt. 27:30<br />Ez. 22:1-5 = Jesus mocked by Gentile Roman soldiers, Mt. 27:27-31<br />Is. 50:2,6 = Mt. 26:67; 27:30; Lk. 18:32<br />Jer. 18:16 = Mt. 27:39<br />These similarities are too close to have been engineered humanly; if it is accepted that Jesus was crucified, it does not seem unreasonable to accept that the sufferings of Jesus described in the New Testament really did happen. It therefore follows that Jesus of Nazareth did bear the sin and judgments of Israel, and therefore He is their saviour-Messiah. Judaism struggles with this observation.</p><p>The Lord's detailed knowledge of His sufferings could have been beamed into Him, or He could have worked some of it out from Old Testament types and prophecies. But it seems to me that because He gave His life of Himself, it was not taken from Him by the machinations of others, He therefore arranged the entire scenario so that these things would happen.</p>