Word for the Week

Plead 'Guilty' and be acquitted!

Week beginning: 19th March, 2017 | By Gerard Chrispin | Surrey

"He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed" 1 Peter 2:24 (ESV)

"But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed" Isaiah 53:5 (ESV)

1 Peter 2:24 (ESV); Isaiah 53:5 (ESV)

Plead 'Guilty' and be acquitted!

Never! How can that be?

The simple definition of a 'crime' which I heard many years ago as a first year Law undergraduate was 'A crime is an offence against the state punishable at the instigation of the state.' The c