6 All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
yet he opened not his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.
(Isaiah 53)
Why? Why did Jesus have to come and die? Why was He the sacrificial Lamb? Because of sheep like you and me. What a picture here of two kinds of sheep: One sinless and without blemish, being offered for all others: dirty, sinful and selfish. What a fitting way for Him to come - to be visited by shepherds, to become The Good Shepherd, who knows what it is to be a sheep, a lamb.
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