Hebrews 12:2
Hebrews 12 · shown in the Douay-Rheims
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Read Hebrews 12:2 in the NABRE onlineLooking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God.
Reflection
Jesus endured the cross, despising the shame. The cross was designed to humiliate; he treated its shame as beneath him. The joy set before him was bigger than the disgrace, and that is the example you are told to follow.
The joy set before him
Jesus endured the cross by looking past it. The shame was real — the cross was designed to humiliate — but he treated it as beneath him because the joy ahead was bigger. That is the example you are told to follow, not the performance you are told to match.
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