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b'Jesus suffered for us. His death on the cross wasn\\u2019t a quick death. He\\nwasn\\u2019t alive and healthy and happy one moment and then dead the next. Jesus\\nwent through pain. Before He was arrested, He knew what was coming, and He\\nhad the power to stop it. But He chose to move forward anyway. In order to\\nsave us, He had to struggle. He did it all for us.\\n.\\nSome of us might have had someone in our life sacrifice something to help\\nus. Maybe a parent gave up a good job so we could stay in the school we\\nwere used to, or maybe they went without some of the things they wanted so\\nthey could buy us new clothing. Yet, none of the sacrifices humans make for\\nus can even begin to compare to the sacrifice Jesus made for us.\\n.\\nJesus was arrested in the middle of the night, and He didn\\u2019t die until\\nabout 3:00 PM. All of His followers abandoned Him. The religious leaders\\nspit in His face and beat Him with their fists. The guards blindfolded Him\\nand struck Him. He was flogged severely, and the whip was probably studded\\nwith broken glass and nails and shards of bone, ripping His skin to shreds.\\nThen the soldiers stripped off His clothes and pressed a crown of thorns\\ninto His head. They took a staff and struck Him on the head over and over\\nagain. When Jesus was finally brought to Golgotha, they drove two enormous\\nnails through His wrists and one through both of His feet. He had to push\\nHimself up by those nails just to breathe, all while people hurled insults\\nat Him. Finally, He cried out in a loud voice, and breathed His last.\\n.\\nJesus gave His all, and He did it out of love. We mean so much to Him that\\nHe wanted to deal with sin once and for all, to save us from death and\\nbring us near to live with Him forever. His blood was given so that we\\ncould live. When we think about what He has done, may we fall to our knees\\nin gratitude. The suffering He faced was a gift to us. His blood was a\\ngift. We can be saved because of Him. \\u2022 Emily Acker\\n.\\n\\u2022 Have you ever stopped to think about just how much Jesus suffered in\\norder to save us? How does His suffering and all He gave for us reveal\\nGod\\u2019s love? \\n.\\n\\u2022 Jesus\\u2019s death was not the end. He rose from the grave, so now everyone\\nwho puts their trust in Him can be saved! If you want to know more about\\nthis good news, check out our \\u201cKnow Jesus\\u201d page. (If you want to dig\\ndeeper, read Matthew 26\\u201327; Mark 14\\u201316; Luke 22\\u201324; John 18\\u201320.)\\n.\\nFor Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous,\\nto bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the\\nSpirit. 1 Peter 3:18 (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nIsa.52.14|Isa.53.4-Isa.53.11|Matt.26.47-Matt.26.56|John.19.1-John.19.30|1Pet.3.18'