Monday, May 5

Pierced for our transgressions

The Bible speaks with a clear and united witness. Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed. The Servant was pierced for our transgressions. He died, as Caiaphas prophesied, in the place of the people. He was set forth as a propitiation for our sins. He became a curse for us, bearing our sins in his body on the tree, drinking the cup of God’s wrath, giving his life as a ransom for many.

— Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey and Andrew Sach
Pierced for Our Transgressions: Recovering the Glory of Penal Substitution
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2007), 99