With the Wicked and the Rich

His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
-- Isaiah 53:9 (NASB)

This verse from the 53 chapter of the Book of Isaiah, written over 500 years ago before Christ's time, is the most explicit and complete exposition of the substitutionary suffering and death of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Three years before his crucifixation, Jesus' said these words to Nicodemus (John 3:14-15): "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life."