He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”

— 1 Peter 2:24

having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!

— Colossians 2:14

… He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.

— Hebrews 2:9b

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,

— 1 Peter 3:18

And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,

— Luke 24:46

When they had carried out all that was written about Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

— Acts 13:29

Thoughts on Today’s Reading

Grace, mercy and love from Christ to you.

“Christ died …” describes the work of Christ for our salvation. Christ suffered spiritual death for us on the cross in that He was separated from God the Father. Christ certainly suffered physical death on our behalf on the cross when His soul and spirit were separated from His physical body bearing our sin in His body. Christ also suffered the implication of eternal death. Whether Christ was separated from His Father for one minute or one million years made no difference since God lives outside of the realm of time.

Christ died for our sins. He died on our behalf in order to save us from the penalty we deserved for our sins. Christ saved us from having to face the death penalty ourselves and being separated from God for all eternity. Paul verified that Christ died according to the Scriptures. His death was a prophetic event that happened as foretold in the Old Testament. Christ’s burial also provides enduring proof of His death as the living are not buried.