day no. 15,626: Jesus was rent, His tunic was not

"When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because all were fulfilled in him, and therefore the place of their presentation was marked with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden things of the old dispensation: the mercy-seat could now be seen, and the glory of God gleamed forth above it. By the death of our Lord Jesus we have a clear revelation of God, for he was "not as Moses, who put a veil over his face." -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening

Moses had to veil his face to keep the echo of the glory of God from frightening His people. Jesus' veil was removed and kept in one piece, while the veil on the temple was ripped in two, revealing the mercy seat for all to see. The full glory of God in the finished work of Christ on the cross was revealed so that His people might rejoice in the fully disclosed, unveiled majesty of the mercy seat, the propitiation, on display for all who would receive and believe in Him.

The priest's robes were rent.

Matthew 26:65
Then the high priest tore his robes

The temple's curtain was rent.

Matthew 27:51
The curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.

But Jesus' tunic was kept in one piece.

John 19:23-24
When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom, so they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.”

Jesus was rent, His tunic was not.

Jesus was ripped apart for our transgressions, but His righteousness remained in perfect oneness. In Him, our sins are ripped from us and by Him we are clothed and covered without gap. In Christ our sins are torn apart and their power obliterated and in Him our righteousness is provided in perfect, powerful covering. Just as the mercy seat was covered completely, so we are covered. Jesus is our mercy seat and He is our curtain. He clothes and contains all the majesty and might of the Lord God and hides us in Him by opening the way to all that He is through the torn veil of His body to His shed blood.