Objection: Jesus Was MADE SIN for Us.  He Was Not MADE SICKNESS for Us.

The objection at face value is true, but the intended implication, that sickness isn’t in the atonement, is false.

Jesus wasn’t “made bruising” or “made affliction” or “made smiting” or “made stripes” or “made wounds” for us, either.  His bruising, affliction, smiting, stripes and wounds were punishment for our sins, which He bore when He “became sin” in our place.  He was MADE SIN, but He was not MADE PUNISHMENT FOR SIN.  Instead, He bore the punishment for sin.

But while He was not MADE SICKNESS, He was definitely MADE SICK.  Isaiah 53:10 literally says that God “made Him sick” (the literal Hebrew translation of where the King James Version says that God “put him to grief”).  Isaiah 53:4 shows us that it was OUR sicknesses – the ones we deserved – that He was bearing.  Jesus was MADE SICK so that we don’t have to bear that part of the punishment for our sins.

See Isaiah’s Prophecy of Redemption for more on this subject.