# suffered for us The word "us" includes the people Peter was writing to; as he explains how Christ suffered and what Christ accomplished by suffering. # so that he would bring us to God Peter probably means here that Christ died in order to create a close relationship between us and God. # He was put to death in the flesh "People put Christ to death physically" # he was made alive by the Spirit "the Spirit made him alive" or "he was made alive in the spirit" or "he was made alive with a spiritual body"