“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
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A pattern ofJohn 10:11
The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
“I am the good shepherd.The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
Fulfilled hereHebrews 2:9
The greater Mediator did more than risk death; He tasted death for everyone.
“But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.”
A pattern ofExodus 32:32
Moses offered to be blotted out of God's book for the sake of a guilty people.
“Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.””