Suffered Under Pontius
Pilate, was Crucified, Died
and was Buried
“He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and
acquainted with grief” (Is. 53:3).
The great mission of Our Lord Jesus Christ was to redeem the world, to
reconcile humanity to an offended God and restore us to His friendship. To
achieve this, Our Lord had to satisfy the Divine Justice for our sins––He
had to suffer and die in our place.
As the Son of God, every act of Our Lord was an act of a divine person.
Therefore, every single act of suffering on Christ’s part, every drop of His
Precious Blood spilt, was of infinite value and therefore sufficiently
meritorious to redeem humanity. Yet, for love of us, Christ of His own free
will chose to place no human limit on His suffering, pouring out His Blood
to the very last drop. In the Book of Isaiah we find the mysterious oracles
prophesying the suffering and death of the Messiah:
“Who has believed what we have heard? And to whom has the arm of the
Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like
a root out of dry ground; he had no form of comeliness that we should look
at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and
rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one
from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him
not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we
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