“Why Did Jesus Have To Die?”

Isaiah 55:6-9

⁶  “Seek the Lord while he may be found;

call upon him while he is near;

⁷  let the wicked forsake his way,

and the unrighteous man his thoughts;

let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,

and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

⁸  For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

⁹  For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

so are my ways higher than your ways

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Mark 8:31-33

³¹ And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. ³² And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. ³³ But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not  setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”