Matthew 1:18-21
Jesus Born to Save Us from Our Sins
18 This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. 19 Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
20 But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
John 1:29
Jesus Bore our Sins
29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Mark 2:16-17
Jesus Came for Sinners
16 When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
1 Peter 2:17-25
Jesus Bore Our Sins
17 Show proper respect to everyone: Love the brotherhood of believers, fear God, honor the king.
18 Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. 19 For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. 20 But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. 21 To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.
22 "He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth." 23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Luke 5:17-26
17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, “Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”
22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, “Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up and walk’? 24 But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, “We have seen remarkable things today.”
Luke 18:31-34
31 Jesus took the Twelve aside and told them, “We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written by the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled. 32 He will be delivered over to the Gentiles. They will mock him, insult him and spit on him; 33 they will flog him and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”
34 The disciples did not understand any of this. Its meaning was hidden from them, and they did not know what he was talking about.
Acts 4:12
Salvation is Found in No One Else
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.
Galatians 1:1-5
Jesus Gave Himself for Our Sins
1 Paul, an apostle—sent not from men nor by a man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead— 2 and all the brothers and sisters with me,
To the churches in Galatia:
3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, 5 to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
John 3:16
God Gave His One and Only Son
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Philippians 2:8
Jesus Became Obedient to Death and Died On a Cross
8 And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death-- even death on a cross!
Romans 5:8
God LOVES Us, Even Though We Sin
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Jesus did not say in a verse or verses He came to die for our sins...I just read where Jesus dying for our sins did not gain traction until a dozen centuries after He died...So maybe the earliest of followers believed that Jesus overcame death and sin, as the Divine One, and that was why He came...But I find this interesting that it took many, many years for Him dying for our sins to take hold...Jesus did say in the Gospel of Mark, that He came to earth for sinners...And in the Gospel According to Matthew from the very start, that Mary's Baby would be given the name Jesus, because He will save his people from their sins...Early in St. John's gospel, John the Baptist, says Jesus takes away the sins of the world...St. Peter, one of Jesus' Disciples writes in His first epistle wrote that Jesus Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by His wounds you have been healed...For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls...And then St. Peter writes that salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved...St. Paul, in his introduction to the Galatians churches, writes that the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever...
If Jesus came to earth for sinners, and salvation is found in only Him, and three times in the Gospel of Luke He tells His Disciples that He is going to die, it seems that these things tell us that He did die for the multitude of sins, that man has done...
We live in a violent and cruel world...God did not torture and crucify Jesus, we did...We are the ones who hung Him from the tree, until He died...The noted atheist Richard Dawkins says,"It is, when you think about it, remarkable that a religion should adopt an instrument of torture and execution as its sacred symbol…The theology and punishment-theory behind it is even worse."...The symbol of the cross is our symbol...But God is not the problem here as Dawkins tries to make it seem...God did not hang His innocent Son from the cross, we did...And it proves that the world is violent and that we do need saving...Our sins, my sins, put Him on the cross and He died for each of us...
God shows His LOVE for us by sending His Son to us...God sent Him to us while we still sin, and are therefore, unrighteous...Jesus died not to save us in sin, but to save us from our sins and our sinful ways...