Although I had known
Jesus became sin for us, that he took our sins upon his heart, I didn’t think
about the depth of that until I read these two verses explained.
“And
he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed,
and sore troubled.And he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death; remain here and keep watch." Mark 14:33,34
“He began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled…”These two Greek verbs are as adequately expressed above as seems possible. The first impies "utter extreme amazement;" if the second has for its root "not at home," it implies the anguish of the soul struggling to free itself from the body under the pressure of intense mental distress."
Verse 34. – “None but he
who bore those sorrows can know what they were. It was not the apprehension of
the bodily torments and the bitter death that awaited him, all foreknown by
him. It was the inconceivable agony of the weight of the sins of men. The Lord
was thus laying "upon him the
iniquity of us all." This, and this alone, can explain it. ‘My soul is exceeding
sorrowful even unto death.’ Every word
carries the emphasis of an overwhelming grief. It was then that "the deep
waters came in," even unto his soul. "What," says Cornelius a
Lapide, "must have been the voice, the countenance, the expression, as he
uttered those awful words!"
Jesus sweat drops of blood that
night. He said he was at the point of death. An angel came and strengthened him
or he might have died there in Gethsemane.
This was the sin within him.
From the time of his arrest
until he died on the cross, Jesus was surrounded by sin of every type.
Cruelty,
cowardice, envy, betrayal, mocking, hatred, torture, slapping, beating, lies,
indifference, pride, unbelief, anger, and injustice.
This was the
sin without him.
For a pure
and holy person, being surrounded by evil must have been horrible. Realize also,
he loved all the people there who caused him such pain. It would be like us
having our parents or children abuse us. Some of us have lived through that, it’s
true. Jesus did too on the night and day of his trial and death.
Someday,
when we are in heaven, we will see what Jesus left to become one of us, to
suffer untold agony and to die feeling all alone.
Here are some extra verses:
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” 2 Corinthians 5:21
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’—“ Galatians 3:13
“But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5
“Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.” Hebrews 9:28
