The Coming of the Son of Man

“But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,

Healings at Simon’s House

After leaving the synagogue he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her.

Now there was a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all she had on physicians, no one could cure her.

saying, “The Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised.”

But first he must endure much suffering and be rejected by this generation.

After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.

Future Glory

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are abundant for us, so also our consolation is abundant through Christ.

If we are being afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation; if we are being consoled, it is for your consolation, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we are also suffering.

Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our consolation.

Paul’s Sufferings as an Apostle

I repeat, let no one think that I am a fool, but if you do, then accept me as a fool, so that I, too, may boast a little.

I pray, therefore, that you may not lose heart over my sufferings for you; they are your glory.

the others proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition, not sincerely but intending to increase my suffering in my imprisonment.

For he has graciously granted you the privilege not only of believing in Christ but of suffering for him as well,

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death,

Paul’s Interest in the Colossians

I am now rejoicing in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am completing what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church.

The Judgment at Christ’s Coming

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God and is intended to make you worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering.

Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, in the power of God,

Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

my persecutions, and my sufferings, the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.

As for you, be sober in everything, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.

but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

It was fitting that God, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,