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grows out of · look and live
Jesus names the link himself. The bitten Israelite was healed not by effort but by looking at the thing lifted up; John 3 makes that the shape of faith in the crucified Son of Man.
teaching · New Testament
Lifted up
John 3'As Moses lifted up the serpent, so must the Son of Man be lifted up.'
ProphecySacrifice
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Prophecy
Sacrifice
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points forward to · lifted from the earth
John uses 'lifted up' three times, and says plainly that it signifies the kind of death Jesus would die.
Kingship
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grows out of · the title Jesus used
'Son of Man' is Jesus' habitual self-description, and John 3 attaches Daniel's glorious figure to a pole and a crucifixion.