We know that Christ suffered in Gethsemane, that he took our sins, and the suffering he endured for us was beyond our own ability to endure. At this point once having already suffered, the God who saved us, could have just given up his life and avoided the cross, instead he endured again and allowed himself to be scourged, and hung. Only after being crucified did he voluntarily give up his soul and die. He could have just laid down his life peacefully in his sleep. So why after enduring so much did he choose to endure again? I think the answer is the same as the answer to why he endured Gethsemane, he did it for us. It is beyond our ability to understand the atonement, so he gave us and the people of his time something they could understand, the crucifixion. He gave us a physical manifestation of part of what he endure so we would always understand his sacrifice, we can never understand his pain for us completely, the atonement was never in our ability to suffer, but we with our limitations can understand the physical pain of the act of being crucified. It is another sign of his love for us that we are given a sample of the pain he endured by his enduring and overcoming something we physically understand, human physical pain.
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