Jesus was humiliated, scorned, insulted, ridiculed, and despised as he hung on the cross. No wonder for the torture alone spawned hideous revulsion. A later regretted glimpse of the guilty crucified would turn the stomach and head. The prophecy in these three verses was fulfilled during the passion of Christ.
Worms, maggots, and grubs with the appearance of shreds of skin are crushed under the feet, never noticed, not cared about, and when spotted repulsed due to their hideous appearance. When flogged by a short whip made of leather strips with glass and steel bards, Jesus’ skin was torn open. The splintered beam or entire cross he was forced to carry on his body kept the wounds open allowing trickles of blood to seep. As Jesus hung on the cross his body looked like red most worms. When spotting the condemned one was repulsed due to his hideous appearance.
“All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads: ‘He trusts in the LORD; let the LORD rescue him. Let him deliver him, since he delights in him,'” is recited with examples in Matthew 27:39-44, “Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads, and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!’ In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. ‘He saved others,’ they said, ‘but he can’t save himself! He’s the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.” In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.”
Remembering what Jesus had to endure enables me to see how repulsive my sin is; what it did to me and what it did to Jesus.
