2 Corinthians 13:3-4; Crucified Through Weakness
2 Corinthians 13:3-4 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you. 4 For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
God’s ways are not our ways, neither His thoughts, our thoughts. Human ingenuity could not comprehend the scene of the crucified Saviour. Such humiliation and defeat. Yet in the wisdom of God, the gainsayers are themselves helped when the Spirit of God enabled them to understand and see the power of God in the resurrection, in the defeat of sin and death by the Saviour’s crucifixion.
Indeed, as the prophet Isaiah foretold in Isaiah 53:6-7 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.