Lord's Day #15 - Be Reconciled To God

Lord's Day 15

37. Q. What does it mean that he suffered?
    A. That all the time he lived on earth, but especially at the end of his life, he bore, in body and soul, the wrath of God against the sin of the whole human race, in order that by his passion, as the only atoning sacrifice, he might redeem our body and soul from everlasting damnation, and obtain for us the grace of God, righteousness, and eternal life.

38. Q. Why did he suffer under Pontius Pilate as judge?
    A. That he, though innocent, might be condemned by a temporal judge, and thereby free us from the severe judgment of God to which we were subject.

39. Q. Is there anything more in his having been crucified than if he had died some other death?
    A. Yes, since thereby I am assured that he took on himself the curse which lay upon me; for the death of the cross was accursed of God.