It is indeed true that no man will die for the sins of others! [Deuteronomy 24:16 and Ezekiel 18:20]
Except, with Jesus, he was not just anyone or any man.
He was holy, sinless, the Word of God. He is God come in the flesh (John 1:14)
The Torah taught that a substitute had to be offered for the sins of others!
Without the shedding of blood there can be no forgiveness of sins.
“Iniquities prevail against me; As for our transgressions, You will provide atonement for them.
Psalms 65:3
It took a SPECIAL lamb and not just any other lamb for the atonement of sins. The lamb had to be first born and spotless for it to be offered as a sacrifice for the SINS OF OTHERS.
A lamb that had spots could not be offered as a sacrifice for the SINS OF MANY. Jesus was that lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world (John 1:29)
A man who has sinned (this goes for all mankind) could never have offered himself as a perfect sacrifice for the sins of others!
Jesus was the first born to Mary and was sinless and a BETTER sacrifice for the SINS OF MANY.
It’s the reason why he was set apart and SPECIAL. He was never just any other prophet:
1. He was the ONLY one to be born without sin and remained sinless! Adam sinned.
2. He was the only one referred to as the Word of God.
3. The angel said to Mary that she would be overcome by the Holy Spirit. No record of any other prophet born this way.
These are the obvious and unexplained reasons WHY Jesus was much MORE than the CLAIM that he was just a prophet!
Why was Jesus born sinless and remained without sin?
Because he was to take the place of the spotless lamb that would be offered for the SINS OF MANY!
In the Tanakh Jewish scripture, written before Rome, Paul and Nicea, the Messiah is referred to as the ‘arm of the Lord’ who ‘bared his soul unto DEATH, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the SINS OF MANY’. [Isaiah 53:12 Tanakh Jewish Bible]
King David spoke of the atonement God would provide for transgressions:
“And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, and deliver him to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and CRUCIFIED, and he will be raised on the third day.” “even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a RANSOM FOR MANY.”
Matthew 20:17-19, 28)
In Jesus’s own words:
” Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.”
John 15:13-14 KJV
‘Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.”
John 20:27-29