"The glory of Christ is also to be seen in his sufferings. "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?" (Luke 24:26)."
"But what can we see of His sufferings in the gospel? What glory do we see in these things? Are not these the things at which both Jews and Gentiles stumbled and which they found offensive? Was it not thought to be foolish to look for salvation by the sorrows and miseries of another, to look for life by His death? Paul tells us that it was (see 1 Cor. 1:18-25). The wisdom of the world despised the sufferings of Christ. But it is precisely because of His sufferings that He is glorious and precious in the sight of believers (1 Peter 2:6-7). For in these sufferings Christ was 'the power of God and the wisdom of God' (1 Cor. 1:24). It is only because the god of this world has blinded their eyes that men fail to see the meaning of the cross of Christ (2 Cor. 4:3-6). But it is in these sufferings that we behold the glory of Christ's work as mediator."
