11彼前二章二十四节告诉我们,基督“在木头上,在祂的身体里,亲自担当了我们的罪,使我们既然向罪死了,就得以向义活着”。这里的木头,指木头作的十字架,为罗马人处决罪犯的刑具,如旧约所预言的。(申二一23,加三13。)这里的罪,如在希伯来九章二十八节,指我们在外面行为上所犯的罪;而约翰一章二十九节的罪,指我们生来在性情里的罪。基督为我们的罪死了,在十字架上担当我们的罪,使我们能蒙神赦免。…基督在祂的死里不仅担当我们的罪,甚至为我们成为罪。“神使那不知罪的,替我们成为罪。”(林后五21。)这指明神使基督为我们成为罪。基督没有接触罪,或亲身经历罪,所以就经历说,祂是不知罪的。(参约八46,彼前二22,来四15,七26。)…然而,祂成为罪,并除去世人的罪,使罪的问题得以解决。 11First Peter 2:24 tells us that Christ “bore up our sins in His body on the tree, in order that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness.” The tree in this verse denotes the cross made of wood, a Roman instrument of capital punishment for the execution of malefactors, as prophesied in the Old Testament (Deut. 21:23; Gal. 3:13). Sins here, as in Hebrews 9:28, refer to sins we commit in our outward conduct, whereas sin in John 1:29 refers to the sin that is in our nature by birth. Christ died for our sins, carrying up our sins onto the cross, that we might be forgiven by God. In His death Christ not only bore our sins but even became sin for us. “Him who did not know sin He made sin on our behalf” (2 Cor. 5:21). This indicates that God made Christ sin for us. Christ did not know sin in an experiential way by contact or personal experience (cf. John 8:46; 1 Pet. 2:22; Heb. 4:15; 7:26)…Nevertheless, He became sin and took away the sin of the world so that the problem of sin might be solved.