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to look on the face o f Jesus Christ when the last sinner has been washed in the blood and come home to God.” At first this old world looked on the Cross o f Christ, but could not understand it. It was a dim outline o f a picture which they could not 1 take in. But when the Holy Spirit rose on the scene and bathed the cross in a flood o f golden light, ’Tis then I saw: “ One hanging on the tree In agonies o f blood. He fixed his languid eyes on me, As near His cross I stood.” powered the disciples.”—Parker. Elders, priests, scribes —“ Three constituent parts of the Sanhedrin, as if each o f three classes gave a separate vote rejection.” Killed. “His death was constantly before him as the great purpose for which he had come.” “He was the one man who came to earth to die and not to live.” Rise again. “ Resur rection is a part o f his whole work and without it his death has no power, but falls into the undistinguished mass o f human mortality. ‘Christ that died’ is no Gospel, until you go on to say, ‘Yea, rather is risen again’.”—Maclaren. v. 32. Spake openly. “ Mark makes it clear that the disciples’ misapprehension of the prediction was their own fault, for Jesus spoke clearly and without reserve.” — “A startling illustration o f the dullness of the human mind in seeing new truth, that after this clear declaration, the disciples were utterly bewildered when his cruci fixion actually came, and that after the resurrection, they would not believe the report o f it, although it occurred at the appointed time.’’^-Torrey. v. 33. Turned and looked. “I f Peter’s rebuke to him was given, privately, his rebuke to Peter, must, for the sake o f all, be given openly.” Get behind me Satan.
Wonderful Cross. —Sam Jones said: “To look on the face o f every hero who has been the champion o f a great cause, in the hour o f final victory would be a great sight. It would be a great sight to see the face o f Thomas Jefferson when the last government is a republic; to look in the face o f William Penn when the last Indian is in possession o f the inheritance of his race; to look in the face of William Lloyd Garrison and Abraham Lincoln when the last slave on earth shall have been set free; to look on the face o f Judson, Tay lor and Livingstone when the last heathen shall have heard the Gospel. But I want v. 29. Whom say ye that I am? W e are called to individuality o f testimony, not merely to shelter ouselves behind general opinion.”—“ The word YE is emphatic. Who knows so much o f my teaching and work—and what do YOU say?” Peter answered—the Christ. “All Gospels assign the answer to Peter and it is in harmony with his character and position.” “The sig nificance and worth bf the cross could only be understood in the light o f this answer. An imperfect conception o f who Jesus is, takes the power out o f his life and the preciousness out o f his death.” V. 30. Tell noman. “ No writer o f fic tion would have said that Christ, after securing a confession o f his Messiahship would at once forbid them to publish the fact.” v. 31. Began to teach. “Had they at once proclaimed Jesus as Messiah they would have taught much that was errone ous.”—“ Slowly he had brought them to see that he was Messiah; even more slowly would they see that the King and Con queror must suffer shame and death.”— “ No sooner does he .fully acknowledge his glory than he stoops to the depth o f his sacrificial humiliation. To have told o f the rejection and killing first would have over
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