Numbers 21:4b-9
9Therefore, Moses made a bronze serpent, and he placed it as a sign. When those who had been struck gazed upon it, they were healed.
Psalm 77
2I will open my mouth in parables. I will speak about concepts that are from the beginning. 3We have heard and known such great things, as our fathers have described to us. 4These things have not been hidden from their sons in any generation: declaring the praises of the Lord, and his virtues, and the wonders that he has done. 5And he has received testimony with Jacob, and he has set a law within Israel. Such great things, he has commanded our fathers, so as to make these things known to their sons, 6so that another generation might know them, and so that the sons, who will be born and who will grow up, shall describe them to their sons. 7So then, may they put their hope in God, and may they not forget the works of God, and may they seek his commandments. 8May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God. 9The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, have been turned back in the day of battle. 10They have not kept the covenant of God. And they were not willing to walk in his law. 11And they have been forgetful of his benefits, and of his miracle, which he revealed to them. 12He performed miracles in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. 13He broke the sea and he led them through. And he stationed the waters, as if in a vessel. 14And he led them with a cloud by day, and with illumination by fire throughout the night. 15He broke through the rock in the wasteland, and he gave them to drink, as if from the great abyss. 16He brought forth water from the rock, and he conducted the waters, as if they were rivers. 17And yet, they continued to sin against him. In a waterless place, they provoked the Most High with resentment. 18And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking for food according to their desires. 19And they spoke badly about God. They said, “Would God be able to prepare a table in the desert? 20He struck the rock, and so waters flowed and the torrents flooded, but would even he be able to provide bread, or provide a table, for his people?” 21Therefore, the Lord heard, and he was dismayed, and a fire was kindled within Jacob, and an anger ascended into Israel. 22For they neither put their trust in God, nor did they hope in his salvation. 23And he commanded the clouds from above, and he opened the doors of heaven. 24And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and he gave them the bread of heaven. 25Man ate the bread of Angels. He sent them provisions in abundance. 26He transferred the south wind from heaven, and, in his virtue, he brought in the Southwest wind. 27And he rained down flesh upon them, as if it were dust, and feathered birds, as if they were the sand of the sea. 28And they fell down in the midst of their camp, encircling their tabernacles. 29And they ate until they were greatly satisfied, and he brought to them according to their desires. 30They were not cheated out of what they wanted. Their food was still in their mouth, 31and then the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones among them, and he impeded the elect of Israel. 32In all these things, they continued to sin, and they were not trustworthy with his miracles. 33And their days faded away into vanity, and their years with haste. 34When he slew them, then they sought him. And they returned, and they drew near to him in the early morning. 35And they were mindful that God is their helper and that the Most High God is their redeemer. 36And they chose him with their mouth, and then they lied to him with their tongue. 37For their heart was not upright with him, nor have they been living faithfully in his covenant. 38Yet he is merciful, and he will pardon their sins. And he will not destroy them. And he has abundantly turned aside his own wrath. And he did not enflame his wrath entirely.
Philippians 2:6-11
6who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. 7Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man. 8He humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, even the death of the Cross. 9Because of this, God has also exalted him and has given him a name which is above every name, 10so that, at the name of Jesus, every knee would bend, of those in heaven, of those on earth, and of those in hell, 11and so that every tongue would confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.
John 3:13-17
13And no one has ascended to heaven, except the one who descended from heaven: the Son of man who is in heaven. 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so also must the Son of man be lifted up, 15so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.