Everything seemed to be wrong.  Jesus was not a criminal; He had done nothing wrong.  John wrote that He carried His own cross.  Was it His cross?  It was certainly the cross on which He was to be crucified and, as the Creator God, it was cut from the tree He had made; and He was nailed to it with the iron He had created.  It was the cross He had chosen to bear but He did not deserve it because He would suffer for our sins, not His own.
 
He was the King of the Jews, but He was led outside Jerusalem city to be killed.  He was to be the scapegoat for the sins of the world (Leviticus 16:10).  Jesus was crucified between two criminals, surrounded by sin and willingly associating with the sin of the world (including our sin).  He was the author of life, but they took Him to the place of death.  It was so unfair.  Jesus did not deserve such humiliation, but He chose to suffer instead of you and me.
 
The death of Jesus was God’s way to save the world; but the cost to Him was unimaginably huge.  We deserved the punishment, exclusion from God’s city, inclusion with criminals and taken to death: but Jesus took what was due to us. As Isaiah 53:6 says, “We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”

How should we react to that?  Humbled by His grace and sad that it was our sin that took Jesus to the cross?  That is the mark of true children of God.  Let us thank Him for His sacrifice and show our gratitude in living lives which please Him.  How can we best do that today?