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o. And they bring Him unto the place
Golgotha, W ich is, being interpreted, The
place OF skull" After PLATE scourgesl
Him and delivered Him TO their cruel pleas
ure the soldiers crowned Him with thorns.
smote Him and did spiton Him, mockingly
bowed their knees TO Him and finally led
Him out TO cruelty Him. Think on these
things until you see Him bearing all that
for you and your whole heart cries out. II
am thine. o Lordl'' Then cheerfully, not
by compuision, like Simon the Cyrenian.
bear the cross after Him oversees 16-2ll.
Happy Simon. Blessed burdeni But where
was Simon Peterf
% "And they gave 10 drink wine min
gled with myrrh, but He received IL not"
On the way TO Calvary He spoke 20 the
weeping ones of the coming days Of sorrow
because OF this national rejection Of Him.
To reject Christ brings unurterable misery,
Matthew, Mark aud John call the place Of
crucifixion Golgotha. Luke alone calls it
Calvary. In Rev. II. 8, il is spoken of as
part OF the great city where our Lord was
crucified See in the wine and myrrh loom
pare Math. xvii, 34) fultillment OF Ps.
Xix, 81 But He would not accept IL.
"a See in this verse a literal fulfillmento OF
Ps, xxi, Is, for every detail of His humilia-
ton and sufferings was accurately foretold
and fulfilled to the letter. So shall it be
also with every detail of the predictions
concerning His coming again. AS He would
not be stnpefied by the drink offered to
Him, may we not shrink from suffering
with Him this little while.
25. "And il was the third hour, and they
crucified Him." About 0 a. IN. He endured
the agony of having both hands and feet
Mo xr-fth ha voflc vii
He was the fullilment of all the sacrifices
that had ever been offered at that morning
hour. Naked that he might be clothed; a
king, yet not thread of the trappings of
earth's glory; all for us.
20. Over the cross by Pilates orders
there was written in Hebrew and Greek
and Latin (the three languages which rep
resented all the world), Jesus of Nazareth,
the King of the jews" and PLATE would
not alter 1t, though the chief priests asked
him to John xix, 1929. 1t was 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, o, z? See
r.
"a. Two evildoers were crucified with Him
and He in the midst John xix, 1S). He
could not choose His company any moro
than Joseph could in the prison, but He
could glorify God even under such circum-
stances, and He did. Even these were such
as He would choose to save, and for just
such He was then dying. IL is a faithful
saying that He came into the world to save
sinners Il Tim. |, 49,.
% Long years before 1t was written con-
corning Him. And He was numbered with
the transgressors" lisa. lii. 12). and here
was part of the fulfllment. In His life
-. 4. 4, IL ~. l.
was told that he had devil and that He
was glutton and winebibber John viii,
81: Luke vii, 34).
90. The passersby 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 temptation, IF
Thou be the Son of God" (Math. iv. 8;
xvii, 40). 1t looks as IL all the dogs of hell
were let loose upon Him Cps. xxi, 16), yet
He meekly bore it all and answered not.
80. Save myself and come down from
the cross" On one occasion Simon Peter
told Him to pity Himself, but He told
Simon that that was satan talking through
him and added that there was no way for
Him or for His followers but by the
cross (Math. xvi, 22-24, margin).
81. "He saved others; Himself he cannot
save" Thus said the chief priests, and
they said better than they intended, for He
could not save Himself and us, but He
chose not to save Himself that He might
save us. AS TO His being unable to save
Himself If He wished to, that of course was
a lie, for His own testimony was as to HIS
life, mo man taketh 1t from Me, but lay
it down of Myself John X, 49,. See our
privilege in John iii, 10.
3D. They mockingly called Him liking of
Israel" and said that II He would descend
from the cross they would believe on Him.
Contrast the testimony of Nathaniel to His
being king of Israeli and his reception Of
Him John |. 49). Even the thieves reviled
Him, although one of them afterward be-
lieved and was saved. Between people
and priests and soldiers and thieves it was
surely mountains of mockery, and no fol-
lower of His seemed bold enough to COM
fort Him with word Of loyalty to Him.
80. Even the sun refused to shine on such
a scene, and for three hours there was great
darkness. We think of the darkness Of
Gen. /, 2, and Elk. X, 81, %. and the outer
darkness Of Math. XIV, 80; Judg. xiii, but
the darkness of our lesson was unique.
Never in all earth's history was there or
will there be again just such day. 1t
was the Creator of all things suffering for
His creatures that He might redeem them
from destruction.
"a. After six hours on the cross He cried
out In the words of Ps. xxi, /, forsaken Of
His Father for our sins, for He was made
sin for us III Cor. v, 2I See His seven
sayings from the cross in Luke xiii, "a,
43; John xix, %; Math. xvii, 46; John xix,
IS, 80; Luke xiii, 46. Mark gives but this
one, for in this gospel Jesus is peculiarly
the suffering servant He was forsaken for
us that we might never be forsaken, even
as it is written, II will never leave thee nor
forsake thee Heb. xiii, 81.
IS. behold He calleth Elias" So thought
some of the ISLANDERS by. They understood
neither Him nor His words. and it is even
so still. He had at one time to say to His
disciples, ''How is 1t that ye do not under
standy' ozark viii, 2l.) And il was hut
few hours before that he had said to Philip,
Have been so long time with you, aud
yet hast thou not known me, Phillip"
John xiv, o.
&c. As one ran to give Him drink, prob
ably because of His cry. II thirst" John
xix. PSI, another hard heart said, LET alone;
let US see whether Elias will come TO take
Him down. They could not understand
one willing 70 die If He had power TO save
Himself They were believers of satan's
doctrine, "All that man hath will he give
for his life dob ii, a.
81. And Jesus cried with loud voice,
and gave up the ghost" Notice also the
loud voice Of verse 81. He was in His full
strength, bur died of broken heart, as was