His sufferings was the reward of His people’s sin, not His. Every pain inflicted upon our Redeemer was ours and He willingly made them His. Indeed there is no efficacy in our suffering, but thanks be unto God there is in His. The inward travail of His soul for us is incomprehensible and infinitely meritorious. However, His suffering and death as a man in the flesh is as vital and is inseparable in His justifying work in redemption. The full price must be paid.

The word “broken” is used to relate all of His physical sufferings which progressively intensified and finally culminated in His vicarious death. In order for His sufferings and death to be efficacious to all His loved ones the Bread of Life must be broken, “He brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is My body, which is broken for you”. He willingly brake the bread and gave it to whom He would, symbolically showing us He was suffering for His particular people and made us partakers thereof.

The word “broken” also means “given” … “And He took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you …” Luke 22:19. Every piercing, every scourging, every anguish inflicted upon His sinless body was predestinated by Almighty God and executed in time accordingly by the hands of you and I.

As He represented us in His broken body, those that pierced Him represented us as well. We might well say, “We are guilty of His death”, and “He is guilty of our salvation”. However, in His accomplishment, I must “declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” Romans 3:26.