"They spit in his face," Matthew 26:67.
Well. We get the physical suffering and, with good reason, most commonly, we focus on that. At the same time, a more insidious process was going on with Jesus: his degradation. A prophet indeed, yet he was struck and slapped and in jest called on to prophesy about his striker. Yeah. We thought that God had beaten him, God had afflicted him, we had no esteem for him. But he bore our grief. Carried our sorrow. Wounded for us. Crushed for our iniquities. He was oppressed. Afflicted. By God. For our sin. The cost to him of our redemption.
As we begin to think soberly of our rebellion, we meet with a brother or sister today in repentance. And in thankful hope together we confess our desperate need for the forgiveness he bought for us.
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