God, in his mysterious mercy, fashioned clothes for Adam and Eve, to hide our new-found nakedness. The fallen world necessitated garments; we abhorred nakedness, we preferred to hide and be separated.
As the “second Adam”, when Jesus was disrobed and exposed naked on the Cross, he bore all of that deep and primordial disdain and shame and divine separation. That small detail, “They stripped him,” found in Matthew’s Gospel, becomes so powerful. It reveals and reinforces Jesus’ undoing of what humanity brought unto itself at the beginning of the history of our broken world.
Today, with fresher eyes, the sketch hints at what we know will come on Easter Sunday: the resurrected Jesus, no longer tethered by the bandages of death, and the freedom we can now access through Him.
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