Criminal Record Nailed to the Cross

Had we been among the watchers at Calvary, we should have seen nailed to the cross Pilate’s notice of Jesus’ alleged crime. But if by faith we look back to Calvary from where we now are, what we see is the list of our own unpaid debts of obedience to God, for which Christ paid the penalty in our place. 

—J. I. Packer in the intro to In My Place Condemned He Stood.