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a word of truth in it! He laid down His life voluntarily.—Moody. You may know a deal about your Bible, but if you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the, whole volume, you have read your Bible with little profit. Your religion is a clock without a spring. It will never deliver your soul from hell.— Ryle. v. 33. There was darkness. When Christ was born the glory of the Lord shone upon the earth and turned night into day. When He died, God veiled the sun and turned day into night.—Torrey. All nature put a crepe on the door.—His death scatters our dark ness.—Sel. It was inidday and darkness covered all the land of Judea and many went about with lamps thinking it was night and they fell. Then the sun shone out and it was found to be the ninth Jiour. —Apocryphal Gospel of Peter. v. 34. Why forsaken? He was so closely identified with the race which He came to save that he felt the burden of its sin and cried as the representative of humanity “Why hast thou forsaken me?” He was forsaken that we might not be forsaken— that we might be delivered from our sins and eternal death.—Dummelow. v. 38. Veil was rent. God rent it down. It was rent from the top. . Christ having made atonement and glorified God, the way into the Holiest was now made manifest. Heb. 10:19-22.—Scofield. J. Baldwin. gathering in the upper room broke up at about 10. As Christ and His disciples passed through the garden on their way home, Christ asked them to pray with Him. The dsciples fell asleep as He prayed. As Christ finished, Judas approached with a company to arrest Him (v. 43). The disciples “all forsook Him and fled” (v. 50). The Sanhedrin, composed of seventy leading men, had been hurriedly summoned at midnight. Christ was brought before them bound and bleeding. Some legal pro-
came in with sin. Jesus bore that shame He was unclothed that we might be clothed. —Pink. v. 26. King. Thus amid the conflicting passions of men was proclaimed in the chief tongues of mankind from the cross itself, the truth which drew the Magi to the manger and will yet be owned by the whole world.—J. F. & B. v. 29. Railed on Him. Are there any of them left nowadays—people who have no heart-hold of Christianity but are fiercely antagonistic to supposed destroyers of its externals ?—Maclaren. v. <30. Come down from the cross. Beware of a religion which would bring Christ down from the cross.—Ryle. When the ministrations of the pulpit are more concerned about “Christ criticized” than “Christ crucified,” the devil is in high delight.—Barbour. It was substitutionary blood. Our sins cried out to heaven for vengeance. Someone MUST die. Shall it be we or Christ?—Talmage. The vicarious death of Jesus is the vital center of tne whole Christian system and any word which would bring Him down from the cross, is in the nature of a Satanic suggestion.— Burrell. v. 31. Himself He cannot save. I want to repudiate the idea that He died as a martyr. People say He laid down certain principles which finally took Him to the cross—that the cross was an accident. Not By Mrs. H. A SK the Holy Spirit to enable you to tell the story of Christ’s death vividly and expect Him to apply it. Would it be justice to arrest a man at 10 o’clock at night and kill him before 9 the next morning? The Jewish leaders had resolved that Christ should die. Jus tice did not concern them (14:1). While Jesus was having his heart-to-heart talk with His disciples in the upper room (John 13:17) Judas was bargaining with these Jews as to when, where and for how much he would deliver Jesus unto them. The
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