<p>2:24- see on Heb. 2:9; 1 Pet. 5:1.</p><p><i>Whom himself bore our sins- </i>&ldquo;Who his own self bare our sins in his body up on to the tree&rdquo; (2:24 RVmg.) suggests the watching Peter reflecting, as the Lord&rsquo;s body was lifted up vertical, that his sins of denial and pride were somehow with his Lord, being lifted up by Him.</p><p><i>In his body upon the tree</i>- An unusual term for the cross (he also uses it in Acts 5:30; 10:39). Perhaps because he saw the crucifixion (5:1) and was struck by the way the Lord carried a piece of a tree and was impaled upon it. He carried our sins in His own self (AV), in His body. I take this to mean that He was totally identified with us in our sinfulness; not that our sins were part of His body in some metaphysical sense. His physical body was like ours; there was nothing unique in that body of itself which carried our sins. The language speaks of identity rather than anything else.</p><p><i>That we, having died to sin, might live to righteousness- </i>A reference to baptism, our identity with Him in response to His identification with us. The Lord died as He did so that we might live righteously (1 Pet. 2:24); the account of the crucifixion is written as it is so that we might be inspired to a true faith (Jn. 19:35). He &ldquo;his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that <i>we might die to sin</i> Gk. and live to righteousness&quot; (1 Pet. 2:24). He died for our sins, there all our weakness met their death in His death- so close was the association between Him and our sins. Our response to that is to put those sins to death in <i>our</i> bodies, as He put them to death in His on the tree. He carried our sins &ldquo;<i>that </i>we, being dead to sin, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes (Gk. weals- Peter saw them) ye were healed&quot; (1 Pet. 2:24). Because of the suffering entailed in the putting to death of our sins by the Lord&rsquo;s cross, we should respond in likewise mortifying them. Because He died, so should we. We recognize that principle in baptism and are to continue living it out.</p><p><i>By whose stripes you were healed</i><i>-</i> Gk. &lsquo;weals&rsquo;, the swollen up bruises, which Peter would have seen when Christ turned and looked at him through blackened eyes (after the beating of Mt. 26:67). See on Mk. 15:15.</p>