Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-05-24
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VII, SECOND QUARTER, IN
TERNATlONAL SERIES, MAY 20.

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DRY verses %'-E' Golden I"Ni' h"il'
V, 3 Commentary by the Rev. u. NJ.
stearns.
%. And they bring Him unto the place
5olgotha, which is, being interpreted, The
place of a skull" After plate scourged
Him and delivered Him totbeir cruel pleas
ure the soldiers crowned Him with t6orus
smote Him. and did spit ON Him. mocklnplv
bo,ved their knees tn Him and finally led
Him ont to cruelty Him. Think ON these
tbinos until Won. see Him hearing all that
for Won and lour whole benrt cries ont II
ann Thine q I,ordr Then chrerftilly. NOT
bv commission. like Simon the Cyrrui,n.
hear the cross after Him (vet.es lG-2D.
Uappv Siuoul Blessed burleni But where
was Simon Peter?
Or "Nud tb.v pave 70 drink wine min.
arled with uyrrh. but lie received il no. 80
On the way to calvary He spoke to the
veeuiuu ones of the coming DAYS of sorrow
becau.e Of this national rejection of HIM.
70 reject Christ brings unutterable misery.
Matthew. Mark and John call the place of
trucifxion Golgotha. Luke alone calls it
Calvary. In Rev. xi. 8. it is spoken of AS a
part of the great city where our Lord was
crucilied. See in the wine and mvrrh tcom-
mare NJatb xvii 3D fuldllment of Ps.
Xix. 81 But He would not accent it.
"a See in this verse a literal fulfilment of
Ps xxi. Is. for every detail of His hunnlia-
ton and sufTerinps was accurately forrtold
and fulfilled to the letter. SO shall it be
also with every detail of the predictions
concerning His comingagain. As He would
not be stupcGed by the drink offered to
Him, may we not shrink from suffering
with Him this little while
%. "Aud il was tie third hour. and they
crucifed Him" About 9 a. m. He endured
the agony of having both hands and fee;
pierced with the cruel nails (Ps. xxi, 49,
He was the fulfllment of all the sacrifices
that had ever been offered at that morning
hour. Naked that he might be clothed; a
king. vet not a thread of the trappings of
earth's glory: all for us.
26 Over the cross by Pilates orders
there was written in Hebrew and Greek
and Latin (the three languages which rep.
resented all the worlGD. Jesus of Nazareth.
the King of the Jews" and plate would
not alter it. though the chief priests ask ed
/ him to John xix. 1929 1t was a title
which was, and will yet be manifest to be-
/ of interest to all the world. Are you inter.
ested now on the line of lisa. Xii, 6, :? See
] X.
27 Two eyildoers were cruciied with Him
and He in the midst (John xix, Isl. lie
could not choose His company any more
than Joseph could in the prison. but He
could plorify God even under such circlln-
stances. and He did. Even these were such
a. He would choose to save. and for lust
such He was then diving. 1t isn faithful
SAVING that He came into the world 10 save
sinners II Tim. j. 10
Is Long wears before it was written con
c4rninu Him. And lie was numbered with
the transgressors" lisa. lii. ~. and here
was mart Of the flfllment. In His life
time' while going about doing GOOD. lie
wa. told that he had a devil and that lie
was n rluttou and winebibber (John viii.
~. I.uke vii. 3D
20 The uassersbv could not let Him
alone. but rallied on Him and perverted His
words and repeated some of the very words
which satan used in the termination, "lf
Thou be the son of God" Nlath. iv, 8
xvii. tOl. II looks, asifall the dog. of hell
were let loose upon Him Ps xii. 100. Vet
He nl,,l,lv bore IL all and answered not
80. save thyself and come down from
the eros. On one OCCASION simon Pete,
told Him to pity Himself. but lie tod
Simon that that was .uia talking thrlr.l
hiu and added thar tb.r,. ,sn, no way fo,
Him or for His follower, but by til,
cross NIath. xvi. 29-2l. margiul
81. lie sawed others: Himself he canno
save" Thu, said the chief priests. aut
they said better than they intended. for II,
could not save Himself and lis. but II,
chose not TO save Himself that He MIN
save us. \, to His being unable to saw,
Himself if He wished to. that of course wa
a lie. for His own testimony was as to HI
life. NO man taketh it from Me. but la,
il down of Mvselr' CJohn X. ISL, See on
privilege in | John iii. l6.
81 They mockipglv called Him "Kinp O
Israel " and said that if He would descen,
from The eros, they would believe Oh Him
Contrast the TESTIMONY of Nathauael to Iii
being "Kinp of Israel" and his receptiou O
Him l.John i. 49, Even the thi.ye, reyile,
Him. although one of them afterwald b4
ieyed and Was saved Between p,,nl
and nriests and soldiers and thieves il wa
surely mountains of mockery and no fol
lower of Ills seemed hold rno,i,,i, ia con,
fort Him with a word of LOYALTY To Him.
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