Isaiah 53:10 “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.”
It is plainly declared that our Beloved Lord Jesus Christ “had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth” (Isaiah 53:9), “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him” and “put him to grief” in order to “make his soul an offering for sin”. That is, for the “sin” of His People. His physical sufferings were exceedingly severe and grotesque; but the anguish of His “soul” is incomprehensible to us; for, “the LORD” “hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (II Corinthians 5:21). On the night before He was Crucified, our Lord led His Apostles out to “Gethsemane”, and their He “began to be very sorrowful, even unto death”, and He told His Apostles, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.”. The suffering of His “soul” was so great that “he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt” (Matthew 26:36-39). He could see the very moment in which He would be “made … to be sin for us” so “that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”! He endured great torturous pain in the hours before His Crucifixion, and the suffering continued when they nailed Him to the Cross and stood it up. But, the next day, when the guilt, the shame, and the pain of our “sin” was pressed upon His “soul”, the anguish was so great that He “cried … My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). And when He had borne our “sins” away from us, He proclaimed, “It is finished” (John 19:30); “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.” (Hebrews 9:28). The sufferings in His body and in His “soul”, exceed our ability to comprehend the magnitude of His anguish; yet “it pleased the LORD to bruise him” because of His “great love wherewith he loved us” (Ephesians 2:4); and, His Sacrificial Sufferings were necessary to “save his people from their sins” (Mathew 1:21). Now we rejoice, “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” (Hebrews 10:14)!