These continued all through the life of our Lord from the hands of man urged on by Satan, but never from the hand of God, save on the cross, where He was made sin for us. To be a partaker of Christ’s sufferings (Phil. 3) is a high privilege. No sufferings from God by way of chastisement can answer to this. We cannot share Christ’s sufferings from the hand of God, because He bore them that we never might. In this He was our substitute, but in His sufferings from the hand of man and Satan He was our example, in this “we should follow His steps” (1 Peter 1).