All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
He was oppressed and treated harshly,
yet he never said a word.
He was led like a lamb to the slaughter.
And as a sheep is silent before the shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
Unjustly condemned,
he was led away.
Isaiah 53:6-8 NLT
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“If I were to die for any one of you,
what would it amount to but
that I paid the debt of nature a little sooner
than I must ultimately have paid it?
For we must all die, sooner or later.
But the Christ needed not to die at all,
so far as he himself was personally concerned.
There was no cause within himself
why he should go to the cross to lay down his life.
He yielded himself up, a willing sacrifice for our sins.”
C. H. Spurgeon