What was the price required to redeem us?
The price required to redeem us was the blood of Christ. Romans 3:24 teaches that sinners are justified freely by God's grace through redemption—the process of buying us back—so that He could pay that price. This blood had to be divine because Jesus' Father was God, not Joseph, and the blood circulatory system originates with the father.
The context shows Paul putting the frosting on the cake concerning the price of redemption. Romans 3:23 concludes that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, so no one is good enough to slip in. But God did not stop there; He got busy preparing for the coming of a Redeemer. Romans 3:24 says that, even though we are sinners, we are justified freely by His grace through the redemption—the whole process of buying us back. Les teaches that the price of redemption had to be the blood of Christ. That blood is unique because it was divine: Joseph was not the father of the baby Jesus; God was. Les points out that the blood circulatory system always originates with the father, not the mother.