Scriptures:

Matthew 27:26 "So he released Barabbas to the people. He ordered that Jesus be beaten with a whip made of leather straps imbedded with metal and afterward be crucified."

Matthew 26:24 "The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."

Matthew 4:4 "Man shall not live on bread alone but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God."

Matthew 16:24 "For whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up the cross and follow me."

Hebrews 12:2 "Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

Colossians 2:15 "Having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross."

Colossians 1:19-20 "For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross."

Galatians 6:14 "May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world."

​1 Corinthians 1:18 "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God."

Romans 3:23-24 "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that came by Jesus Christ."