1 Peter 2:21-24-"For this you been called, because Christ also suffered for you leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in His mouth. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return, when he suffered, he did not threaten. He continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. He himself bore our sin in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed."

"A cross that was meant to kill is victory, it was finished upon that cross....Lamb of God for sinners wounded."

Jesus died and was buried in my place; He stood in the place of judgment where I should've been.

A crown of thorns struck on his head 7-inch nails driven through his hands and feet.

The pain and the agony; the tears that became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Taking his final breath upon the cross saying, "It is finished." 

As we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted - we looked upon a man with no beauty about him that we should desire him.

Yet....he is 100% God and a 100% man; and yet...he died and was buried and was raised from the grave 3 days later in accordance with the scriptures.

Amen! All glory be to God alone!!