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“Who [the Lord Jesus] His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).
When the Lord Jesus was on the cross, He bore the judgment for our sins in His own body. However, it is important to realize that while our verse uses the word “stripes” to describe the judgment for our sins, those stripes were not from the things man did to Him. It was not the stripes from the scourging, the sufferings from the crown of thorns, or the sufferings from being crucified, that put away our sins. No, it was His sufferings in the three hours of darkness, from the hands of God, that put away our sins. We do not know what happened during those three hours, for God made it dark so that no one could see what took place.
Sometimes the Bible uses a word that we can understand (like the word “stripes”) to describe something we cannot understand, for we cannot really know or understand what the Lord Jesus suffered during those hours of darkness.
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