8 Because of restraint* and of judgment he was taken away;*+ and who will concern himself even with [the details of] his generation?*+ For he was severed+ from the land of the living ones.+ Because of the transgression+ of my people he had the stroke.*+

12 For that reason I shall deal him a portion among the many,+ and it will be with the mighty ones that he will apportion the spoil,+ due to the fact that he poured out his soul to the very death,+ and it was with the transgressors that he was counted in;+ and he himself carried the very sin of many people,+ and for the transgressors he proceeded to interpose.+

2 “YOU know that two days from now the passover occurs,+ and the Son of man is to be delivered up to be impaled.”*+

26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer+ these things and to enter into his glory?”+

3 For I handed on to YOU, among the first things, that which I also received,+ that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures;+