Christ’s Example of Suffering

(Isaiah 53:1–8)

21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:

22 “He committed no sin,

[and] no deceit was found in His mouth.”[fn]

23 When they heaped abuse on Him,

He did not retaliate;

when He suffered, He made no threats,

but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.

24 [He] Himself bore our sins[fn]

in His body on the tree,

so that we might die to sin

[and] live to righteousness.

“By [His] stripes you are healed.”[fn]

25 For “you were like sheep going astray,”[fn] but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.