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At the Right Hand of God

Psalm 110:1 in the (Quotations and Allusions)

The LORD says to my Lord: éÏð—ãàÌì äåäé íÜàÙð ÒSit at my right hand, éÏðéÏîÏì áÍÖ Until I make your enemies ^éÎáÙé—à úéÏÖËàÐãÌò a footstool for your feet.Ó º^éÎìÙâÌøÙì í—ãÚä

Matt 22:42-45 JNT Acts 5:31-30 JNT ÒTell me your view concerning the ÒThe God of our fathers raised up Messiah: whose son is he?Ó They said Yeshua, whereas you men killed him to him, ÒDavidÕs.Ó ÒThen how is it,Õ he by having him hanged him on a stake. asked them, Òthat David, inspired by God has exalted this man at his right the Spirit, calls him ÔLord, when he hand as Ruler and Savior, in order to says, ÔThe LORD said to my Lord, ÒSit enable Israel to do tÕshuvah and have here at my right hand until I put your her sins forgiven.Ó enemies under your feetÓ? If David then calls him ÔLord,Õ how is he his Acts 7:55-56 NASB son?Ó But being full of the Holy Spirit, he [=Mark 12:35-37; Luke 20:41-44] gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Yeshua standing at Matt 26:63-64 NASB the right hand of God. And he said, The high priest said to him, ÒI adjure ÒBehold, I see heaven opened up and you by the Living God, that you tell us the Son of Man standing at the right whether you are the Messiah, the Son hand of God.Ó of God.Ó Yeshua said to him, Ò. . . I tell you, hereafter you will see Rom 8:34 JNT the Son of Man sitting at the right Éthe Messiah Yeshua, who died andÑ hand of the Power.Ó more than thatÑhas been raised, is at [=Mark 14:61-62; :67-69] the right hand of God and is actually pleading on our behalf! :19 JNT So then, after he had spoken to them, 1 Cor 15:24-25 JNT the Lord Yeshua was taken up into Éthen the culmination, when heaven and sat at the right hand of [Messiah] hands over the kingdom to God. God the Father, after having put an end to every rulership, yes, to every :33, 36 JNT authority and power. For he has to rule ÒMoreover, he has been exalted to the until he puts all his enemies under his right hand of God É Therefore let the feet [allusion to Ps 110:1b]. whole house of Israel know beyond doubt that God has made him both Eph 1:20, 22 JNT Lord and MessiahÑthis Yeshua, whom Éhe worked in the Messiah to raise you executed on a stake!Ó him from the dead and seat him at his www.hebrew-streams.org The Right Hand 2

right hand in heaven.É [H]e has put has taken his seat at the right hand of all things under his feet and made him the throne of the Majesty in the head over everything for the Messianic heavens. Community. Heb 10:12-13 JNT Eph 2:6 JNT But this one, after he had offered for God raised us up with the Messiah all time a single sacrifice for sins, sat Yeshua and seated us with him in down at the right hand of God, from heaven. then on to wait until his enemies be made a footstool for his feet. Col 3:1 JNT So if you were raised along with the Heb 12:2 NASB Messiah, then seek the things above, Éfixing our eyes on Yeshua, the author where the Messiah is sitting at the and perfecter of faith, who for the joy right hand of God. set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down Heb 1:3 NASB at the right hand of the throne of God. When he had made purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of 1 Pet 3:22 JNT the Majesty on high. He has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, Heb 1:13 JNT authorities and powers subject to him. To which of the angels has he ever said, ÒSit at my right hand until I Rev 3:21 JNT make your enemies a footstool for your ÒI will let him who wins the victory sit feet?Ó with me on my throne, just as I myself also won the victory and sat down with Heb 8:1 NASB my Father on his throne.Ó We have just such a high priest, who

Translations: David H. Stern, Jewish New Testament (Jerusalem: Jewish N.T. Publications, 1989); New American Standard (1973; with substitutions: ÒYeshuaÓ for ÒJesusÓ; ÒMessiahÓ for ÒChristÓ).

Sources : Robert G. Bratcher, Quotations in the New Testament (Helps for Translators; 3d ed. New York, London, Stuttgart: United Bible Societies, 1987); David M. Hay, Glory at the Right Hand (Psalm 110 in Early Christianity) (Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, 1973), pp. 163-64.

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