Hebrews 12:3

Let your hitbonenut (meditation) be on the one who endured such opposition from chote'im (sinners), that you may not be weary in your neshamot, losing heart.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

In Context

2Fixing our gaze on the Mekhonen (Founder) of our + 12:2 Orthodox Messianic Jewish faith, and the One who makes it Shleimut — Yehoshua, who because of the simcha set before him, endured HaEtz HaMoshiach, disregarding its bushah (shame), and “sat down at the right hand of the throne of G-d.” + 12:2 Ps 110:1

4For you have not yet resisted to the point of death al kiddush ha-Shem in your struggle against Chet;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 12:24Only fear Hashem, and serve Him in emes with kol levavchem; for consider what great things He hath done for you.

Isaiah 40:30Even the ne'arim (youths) shall faint and grow weary, 1 and the bochurim shall utterly fall; 1

Matthew 10:24A talmid is not above his Rebbe nor an eved (servant) above his Baal Bayit (master).

Matthew 12:24But, having heard this, the Perushim said, This one does not cast out shedim except by Baal-zibbul, the Sar HaShedim (the Prince of Demons).

Matthew 21:15And the Rashei Hakohanim and the Sofrim were indignant, having seen the niflaot (wonders) which Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach accomplished and the yeladim shouting in the Beis Hamikdash, Hoshannah to the Ben Dovid. + 21:15 Moshiach

Matthew 21:46And seeking to arrest him, they were afraid of the multitudes, vi-bahlt (since) the multitudes considered him a Navi.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:2-4

Christ the Great Exemplar. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners… Read the whole commentary →

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