suffer = to experience a sensation or feeling
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... of God, who takes away the sins of the world. And then the first words given into Jesus’ mouth, “Suffer it so to be now” (Matthew 3:15). In other words, not suffering as we use the word suffer—suffer means “to allow it”—to allow a thing is to suffer it. I will suffer it; I will allow it. And so, “Suffer it so to be now.”
