Tuesday | 10 March 2026
When Jesus was beaten in the court of Caiaphas, He turned the other cheek in apology to those who, through their other law, imposed the Law upon Him. He absorbed all the reviling and punishment that was directed towards Him on account of envy. This is how He took the Law out of the way and nailed it to His cross in Himself. He did it through the abuse directed towards Him as the Law was misused through the exercise of the other law.
To understand the nature of Christ’s apology, we must recognise that He who knew no sin was made to be sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2Co 5:21. He was made to be our sin. Even though the Law of God was misappropriated by wicked men, it was justly being applied to Christ, our sin. This was the wrath of God, through the Law, on all unrighteousness. Rom 1:18. Christ’s apology was not to the wicked men; it was to the Father, the One against whom we have all sinned by rejecting His word of predestination and endeavouring to name ourselves.
In this way, through His seven wounding events, Jesus was establishing the seven steps of mourning, or godly sorrow, which belong to repentance. 2Co 7:10-12. He was fulfilling, and finished, the repentance for every one of us. Inasmuch as Christ fulfilled our mourning and repentance, He also ‘became for us wisdom from God – and righteousness and sanctification and redemption’. 1Co 1:30. That is, He became the substance of our righteousness, sanctification and redemption! Reiterating the point, we see that as the wrath of the Law was satisfied through the abuse that Christ suffered, it was taken out of wicked hands and nailed with Him on the cross. However, He did this through obedience, satisfying the righteousness of the Law for each of us.
Further Study:
1 Peter 2
References:
2Co 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Rom 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
2Co 7:10-12
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. For observe this very thing, that you sorrowed in a godly manner. What diligence it produced in you, what clearing of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this matter. Therefore, although I wrote to you, I did not do it for the sake of him who had done the wrong, nor for the sake of him who suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear to you.
1Co 1:30
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God — and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.