1 Peter 2:24

_ _ his own self — there being none other but Himself who could have done it. His voluntary undertaking of the work of redemption is implied. The Greek puts in antithetical juxtaposition, OUR, and His OWN SELF, to mark the idea of His substitution for us. His “well-doing” in His sufferings is set forth here as an example to servants and to us all (1 Peter 2:20).

_ _ bare — to sacrifice: carried and offered up: a sacrificial term. Isaiah 53:11, Isaiah 53:12, “He bare the sin of many”: where the idea of bearing on Himself is the prominent one; here the offering in sacrifice is combined with that idea. So the same Greek means in 1 Peter 2:5.

_ _ our sins — In offering or presenting in sacrifice (as the Greek for “bare” implies) His body, Christ offered in it the guilt of our sins upon the cross, as upon the altar of God, that it might be expiated in Him, and so taken away from us. Compare Isaiah 53:10, “Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin.” Peter thus means by “bare” what the Syriac takes two words to express, to bear and to offer: (1) He hath borne our sins laid upon Him [namely, their guilt, curse, and punishment]; (2) He hath so borne them that He offered them along with Himself on the altar. He refers to the animals upon which sins were first laid, and which were then offered thus laden [Vitringa]. Sin or guilt among the Semitic nations is considered as a burden lying heavily upon the sinner [Gesenius].

_ _ on the tree — the cross, the proper place for One on whom the curse was laid: this curse stuck to Him until it was legally (through His death as the guilt-bearer) destroyed in His body: thus the handwriting of the bond against us is cancelled by His death.

_ _ that we being dead to sins — the effect of His death to “sin” in the aggregate, and to all particular “sins,” namely, that we should be as entirely delivered from them, as a slave that is dead is delivered from service to his master. This is our spiritful standing through faith by virtue of Christ’s death: our actual mortification of particular sins is in proportion to the degree of our effectually being made conformable to His death. “That we should die to the sins whose collected guilt Christ carried away in His death, and so LIVE TO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS (compare Isaiah 53:11. ‘My righteous servant shall justify many’), the gracious relation to God which He has brought in” [Steiger].

_ _ by whose stripes — Greek, “stripe.”

_ _ ye were healed — a paradox, yet true. “Ye servants (compare ‘buffeted,’ ‘the tree,’ 1 Peter 2:20, 1 Peter 2:24) often bear the strife; but it is not more than your Lord Himself bore; learn from Him patience in wrongful sufferings.