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March 30, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"He was numbered with the transgressors." — Isaiah 53:12 · KJV

Why did Jesus allow Himself to be enrolled among sinners? This wonderful condescension was justified by many powerful reasons. In such a character He could the better become their advocate. In some trials there is an identification of the counsel with the client, so that they cannot be regarded, in the eye of the law, as apart from each other. Now, when the sinner is brought to the bar, Jesus appears there Himself; He stands to answer the accusation. He points to His side, His hands, His feet, and challenges Justice to bring anything against the sinners whom He represents; He pleads His blood, and pleads so triumphantly — being numbered with them and having part with them — that the Judge proclaims, "Let them go their way; deliver them from going down into the pit, for I have found a ransom." Our Lord Jesus was numbered with the transgressors that they might feel their hearts drawn toward Him. Who can be afraid of one who is written on the same list with us? Surely we may come boldly to Him and confess our guilt; He who is numbered with us cannot condemn us. Was He not put down on the transgressor's list, that we might be written in the red roll of the saints? He was holy, and written among the holy; we were guilty, and numbered among the guilty; He transfers His name from that list to this dark indictment, and our names are taken from the indictment and written in the roll of acceptance, for a complete transfer is made between Jesus and His people. All our estate of misery and sin Jesus has taken, and all that Jesus has comes to us — His righteousness, His blood, and everything He has He gives us as our dowry. Rejoice, believer, in your union to Him who was numbered among the transgressors; and prove that you are truly saved by being plainly numbered with those who are new creatures in Him.