Objection: Old Testament Animal Sacrifices Were Never Made Sick

This is true, which is why no one in the Old Testament had the right to receive healing on the basis of any Old Testament sacrifice.  Jesus’ sacrifice, which ratified the New Covenant, was far greater than any Old Testament sacrifice.  Under the Old Covenant, you could be healed, but you had to keep the Law, and if you didn’t, a sacrifice had to be made for you to be forgiven.  Under the New Testament, the sacrifice that bought us forgiveness has already been made and no new sacrifice will ever be necessary.  Thus, healing is available to everyone at all times, though not everyone receives it.  Jesus, our New Testament sacrifice, clearly WAS made sick (see Isaiah 53:4, Isaiah 53:10 and the discussion Isaiah’s Prophecy of Redemption.  The purpose of this was clear, to “bear away” our sicknesses to redeem us from having to suffer from them.

Old Testament sacrifices were never flogged, either, but the New Testament is absolutely clear that Jesus was flogged, resulting in massive bruising on His back and a loss of good health to the point where He could not carry His own cross.  The fact that Old Testament sacrifices did not have a particular thing done to them does not prove that Jesus didn’t have it done to Him.  What Jesus did is infinitely better than any Old Testament animal sacrifice.