So St Peter quotes a passage from Isaiah as applying specifically to the scourging of Christ as part of the price he paid for coming to save us, “with his stripes we are healed” (see Note below).

The passage from which those words are cited emphasises a truth which cannot be too often remembered, and that is our own personal share in the guilt of Good Friday: “…he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that made us whole, and with his stripes we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all” (RSV, Isaiah 53:5,6, our emphasis).