He paid the total price for all of our transgressions. He also had to undergo the mental anguish brought on by the wrath of His Father, who punished Him for the sinfulness of mankind-sin carried out in spite of God’s repeated warnings, sin that Jesus willingly took upon Himself. Yet the physical pain and agony were not all Jesus suffered. When we picture this terrible, inhumane form of physical punishment we recoil in horror. The whips used were made of braided leather, with pottery shards and sharp stones affixed to the ends, which tore open the flesh of the prisoner with each cruel swing of the whip. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). “I am the way and the truth and the life. The phrase “by His stripes we are healed” refers to the punishment Jesus Christ suffered-floggings and beatings with fists that were followed by His agonizing death on a cross-to take upon Himself all of the sins of all people who believe Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.

These stripes were administered by whipping the bare backs of prisoners whose hands and feet were bound, rendering them helpless. “Stripes,” (Isaiah 53:5 1 Peter 2:24) in the language of the King James Version of the Bible, and in some others, means “wounds,” as seen in more modern translations such as the New International Version.

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