I formed you and set you as a covenant of the people and a light for the nations. I have sent you to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and to bring out from the dungeon those who live in darkness. We are getting closer to the celebrations of the paschal mysteries of the Easter Triduum. Jesus has already entered Jerusalem (yesterday’s commemoration), and it will not be long before he is arrested, charged, and executed. Consequently, the readings for this week have been specifically chosen to help usher us into the mood of the upcoming celebrations. The First Reading today from the Prophet Isaiah is part of the first song of the suffering servant of God, a figure that, for us Christians, finds its fullest culmination in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It is a poem through which God celebrates the total self-giving of the [suffering] servant of God. In this first song, God celebrates the suffering servant using almost the exact set of words that Jesus will later use to describe his mission at the onset of his ministry in Galilee (cf. Luke 4:18-19). The first song of the suffering servant of God is a fitting description of the mission which Jesus accomplished in Jerusalem and which we are soon commemorating. 
The events that are set to take place in Jerusalem will not mark the end but rather the beginning. The passion and death of Jesus is going to mark the beginning of a world-wide Jesus ministry. Through his passion and death, Jesus is going to become a new covenant between God and the people. Through his passion, death, and rising from the dead, Jesus becomes the eternal life-giving covenant that God makes with creation. The death and resurrection of Jesus is a covenant that will never be broken because it does not depend on the faithfulness of humanity (as a partner to the covenant) but rather on the fidelity of God. Jesus Christ becomes a covenant of justice because it is through him that creation is finally able to enjoy the fullness of life that has been God’s plan from the very beginning of creation. Jesus Christ, as the obedient suffering servant of God, becomes the victorious justice of God because it is through him that the rebellious act of creation is rectified and the universe gets to be reconciled to, and with God. Jesus Christ, through his self-offering, becomes the justice of God because he does away with the curse of death that had plagued the world ever since the rebellion of Adam and Eve. Jesus Christ is the justice of God because he takes away death and in its place gifts the world with life.