And He made His grave with the wicked and with the rich in His death, rather, "but with the rich He was in His death"; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Christ is the true sacrificial Lamb brought to the slaughter, a sheep dumb before her shearers. But He attained to the object which He had in mind in this suffering, for which He came into this world; for misery and judgment exhausted themselves in His case. He fought His way through to an endless length of life. This involved, of course, that He was torn away from the land of the living. Because His vicarious obedience demanded this sacrifice, the curse came upon Him for His people's crime. Yet in the very hour after His death He received recognition. Men had planned His interment with the wicked; they thought they could break His legs and treat Him like the criminals that were crucified with Him, casting His body into some convenient pit. Instead of that, however, He was with the rich in His death, buried like a wealthy man, in Joseph's grave. And this because He had done no violence, and in His mouth there was no deceit: He was the Holy One of God.

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