Wednesday, May 4

It is a staggering thought

The most important question of the twenty-first century is: Why did Jesus Christ suffer so much? But we will never see this importance if we fail to go behind the human cause. The ultimate answer to the question, Who crucified Jesus? is: God did. It is a staggering thought. Jesus was his Son. And the suffering was unsurpassed. But the whole message of the Bible leads to this conclusion.

— John Piper
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
(Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2004), 11