Oct 27, 2020
The despised one is oppressed and afflicted yet is silent. He is like a lamb led to be slaughtered and thus cut off out of the land of the living, and all because of the transgressions of the people. He is even buried in both a criminal’s grave yet at the same time with a rich man, thus such is spoken of in Matthew 27:57–60. Surprisingly, all that happened is “the will of the LORD.” The one pierced “bore the sin of many.”