These words were spoken by Jesus, the Son of God and the Lord of lords. Why would He speak these words?
Jesus the Messiah comes
Many years ago, in the little town of Bethlehem, Jesus was born. His birth was a fulfillment of God’s promise to send the Messiah. “22Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” (Matthew 1:22,23)
God had spoken these words many years before through the prophet Isaiah, “Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14)
As Jesus grew, his mother marveled at Him. Jesus was like no other child. He did not complain, talk back, or disobey. He knew how to read, though He had never been taught letters. When He was only twelve years old, He sat with the “doctors” in the temple, “both hearing them, and asking them questions.” (See Luke 2:46)
There was never a time that Jesus broke the law; He followed it perfectly. In Matthew 5:17, Jesus said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.” Though Jesus was often tempted, He never did wrong. Hebrews 4:15 says that Jesus “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.”
Jesus brings salvation
Why had Jesus come to this earth? Why leave Heaven, where angels ministered to Him and heavenly creatures bowed before Him every day? Why leave the place where He was served and worshiped and come to a place where He must serve and where He would be ridiculed and mocked? Why leave the world of light and come to dwell in a world of sin and darkness? Why did Jesus do all this? Because He loved us and came to save us from our sin. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Jesus came into the world for our sake. He said, “The Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10)
How did Jesus provide salvation for us? He did it on the cross. I Peter 2:21-24 says, “Christ also suffered for us... 22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: 24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”