Good Friday Isaiah said it, possibly 550 years before Jesus was born: "He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Is this why the people who executed Jesus had to torture him so much before they killed him? I think not! There is a mean and cruel streak in many of us when we are faced wit...
