Wednesday, pgs 105-110: The question was answered to who crucified Jesus and why, but there is one more question that is more spiritual… What was the meaning to all of it? God, of course, could have stopped Jesus from being killed, and so Jesus could have if he proclaimed himself as the Son of God. There is a deeper meaning to Jesus’ Passion and death- he did it for humanity! He died on the suffered and died on the cross so that humanity could be saved from the horrors of death. Jesus was very symbolic; he was seen as a Suffering Servant, the Paschal Lamb, and the Ransom for many. Jesus is the Suffering Servant because, in the Book of Isaiah, there are passages of a suffering servant of the Lord who did not suffer for his sins, but the sins
