(2v9) '...Jesus, crowned with glory and honour because of the suffering of death...'
There's a Stuart Townend song, I think it's 'How deep the Father's love for us', in which there is the line 'The Father turns his face away'. In a sense that is true - as a son, Jesus Christ became a disappointment to his Father on the cross as 'he who knew no sin became sin'.
However, there is a very real sense in which God did not turn his face away. On the cross, Jesus became the perfect sacrifice - he was literally made 'perfect through suffering' (2v10). God looked upon him and saw justice being done as Jesus 'tasted death' for everyone (2v9).
Thus Jesus is crowned with glory, not because he carried our sin, but because he died for it.
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