Behold

Behold

“Behold!  My Servant whom I have chosen,

My beloved in whom My soul is well pleased!

I will put My Spirit upon Him,

And I will put My Spirit upon Him,

And He will declare justice to the Gentiles,

He will not quarrel nor cry out,

Now will anyone hear His voice in the streets,

A bruised reed He will not break,

          And smoking flax He will not quench,

Till He sends forth justice to victory;

And in His name Gentiles will trust.”

                                                                                 Matthew 12: 18-21 quoting Isaiah 42:1-4
In this chapter, the religious officials are trying to trap Jesus into breaking the law.  He was in the synagogue and seen a man with a withered hand.  He turns to the crowd, asking if it’s right to heal on the Sabbath.  He healed the man and Scripture tells us that:
“Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.  But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there.  And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.  Yet, He warned them not to make Him known.  That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet.”  
                                      Matthew 12:14-17.
Jesus had God’s approval.  God had a plan for His life.  The good news of salvation would go through Jesus to the Jews first, then to the Gentiles, the non-Jewish world.  Isaiah the prophet, seven hundred years prior to the birth of Jesus, had prophesied that it would happen.
The religious leaders of Christ’s day even debated who he was, Jesus didn’t argue.  He simply stated the facts.
Today the truth about Jesus is being declared to the Gentiles in the form of the salvation message of Christ. A salvation message that is for the whole world.
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” 
                             C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
           Think about it.