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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE II.
Subject: Christ Crucifed, Mark XIV, 1890
Golden Text, 1 Cor. XIV, 3-Me emory
Verses, 25-27 - Commentary on the

SuDJect: Christ Cruclfied, Mark XIV, SS-3o
Golden Text, 1 Cor. XIV, 3-Memory
Verses, 25-27 - Commentary on the
Days Lesson.
!. The journey to Calvary ". 22). %.
"They bring Him" Pilates sentence is
supposed to have been given about s
o'clock in the morning. The Jews must
have taken Jesus and started for the cross
almost Immediately. .'Golgotha." Col
gotha is the Hebrew and Calvary the Latin
word with the same meaning.
II. Scenes around the cross Tvs. 1925;
%. "Wine-myrrh." 1t was a merciiul
demned to crucifxion, with a view to pro-
ducing SPECIFICATION, a strong aromatic
wine. This "they offered" (R. W to
Christ; He tasted Matt. 27:34), but re-
fused to drink, as it world obscure the
clearness of His faculties. There were
seven sayings of Christ on the cross, all OF
which express "some characteristic element
of His nature or His work" The first was
a prayer for His murderers: Father, for
give them; for they know not what they
do" luke 1884. This was probably spo-
cross with the victim upon it was dropped
with a sudden wrench into its place in the
ground.
"a. parted His garments" The FOUR
soldiers divided among themselves His
outer robe. head-dress. girdle and sandals,
but for His Goat" that is, His tunic or
under garment, which was without seam
and which would have been ruined If dl-
vided, they cast lots John 1928, "a:
"Casting lots" What a picture! Amid
the most solemn scene Of human history
the unconscious actors SIT down to gam
bic. The legacy in worldly things lett Dy,
Jesus was very small. 25. Third hour
Nine o'clock in the morning. They cruel
fed Him" His hands and feet were
nailed to the cross luke 24:39, 40), and
then it was lifted and sunk into the
ground with a sudden shock, producing
great pain. The feet of the sufferer were
only a foot OF two above the ground.
26. "Superscription." The white tablet
nailed upon the cross above the head OF
the victim, to declare the crime for which
tom to afix a label to the cross, giving a
statement of the crime for which the per-
ecn suffered. "Was written" Plate wrote
this superscription evidently in derision
John 1910. 1t was written in Hebrew
for the Jews, in Greek for the foreigners
and visitors, in Latin for the Romans.
"Kinc of the Jews" The words are some
what different in the different gospels,
probably because some of the writers cop
led from one language and some from an
other. The truth was proclaimed in jest;
Jesus is in fact a King with 4 many
crowns" 81. Two thieves This was
probably done with the intention OF giving
the people to think that Jesus was to be
filed" Isaiah 1912. Omitted in R. V.
III. Christ Knocked Tvs. 1922. %.
"Railed on Him" They utter taunts
founded on caluminous misrepresentations
of His words; they ridicule His kingship
and even His piety; they trampie on HIS
pretences and exult over His weakness.
"Wagging." An accompanying gesture
expressive of contempt. "Ah." An eXcta-
nation of d~erision. "Destroyest the tenn
pie" At the first cleansing of the temple
Jesus had said, Destroy this tempe and
in three days / will raise it up" lJohn :;
10y. They had never forgotten this. At
His trial before Caiaphas, the previous
night, they charged Him with saying that
He was able to destroy the temple and
build it in three days Matt. 2G:6l(, put
this was a perversion of His words. What
He said was that if they DESTROYED it He
was able to raise it up or rebuild It IN
three DAYS. 80. Save Thyself." They
thought that if Jesus were the Messiah,
surely He could deliver Himself from the
Roman cross. Come down" Let HIM
show His power and save His own life. II
He does not then He is so far from beng
the Messiah that He is justly cruclhed tor
making such pretensions. :. .
81. "Chief priests-scribes;~ Ihe disni-
taries and members of the Sanhedrin, as
we'll as the ordinary b~ystanders, Knocked,
for they suppose they have gained a COM
pIete victory. 80. "They-reviled." From
this it appears that at first both OF the
thieves reproached Christ.
iV. Christ crucifed Tvs. $500. 80.
"Sixth hour" Noon. Darkness" The
darkness continued three hours, from noon
until three o'clock. 'The ninth hour"
The hour of the offering of the evening
sacrifice. "a. Jesus cried" This was
Christ's fourth u%tterance on the cross,
and is the only one recorded by Mark.
darkness. "Eloi, ETC." Mark preserves
the Aramiac words exactly as they were
spoken by Jesus. The repetition, My
God! My God" gives a deeply pathetic
force. 1t is an expression of utter lonei'-
ness and desolation.
s.. HE calleth Elias" They either only
caught the first syllable, or misapPre-
hended the words, or, as some think, spoke
in wilful mockery and declared he called
not on ell" God, but on Elias" whose D
appearance was universally expected. 80:
Vinegar" Burning thirst IS the most
painful aggravation Of death by cruclhXlon.
Christ now uttered His fifth saying on the
cross, Il thirst" John 1928. This was
His only expression of bodily suffering. IL
was then that a soldier ran and filled a
sponge with vinegar, or the sour WINE ana
water called posca, the ordinary drink OF
the Roman soldiers" and offered Him to
drink. ION a reed" The short stem of a
hyssop plant. With this they, were able
to reach His mouth with the sponge.
"Gave Him" The first drink OF vinegar
and gall Jesus refused, but this, unmixedi
with any drug, was accepted. Let alone
etc. This was probably uttered seriously.
81. "A 10 I'd voice. As it were the trl-
umphant cry of a conqueror. lie now ut,
tered His sixth saying: 1T is finished
John l0:3Ol, This is one word IN the
Greek, and has been called the greatest
single word ever uttered. What was
finished? His life's work, the cup OF sui
ferinq, the atonement for the sins OF the
world, the old era and disPensation. The
seventh saying was. Father, INTO my
hands l commend My spirit duke %;
46). "Gavc up the ghost" lie dismissed
the spirit. He Himself willingly gave up
His W life.
So. The veil-was rent" The great
veil of the temple that hung, between the
holy place and the holy OF holes, forty, GU
bits (sixty feetl long and twenty cublts
(thirtv feet) wide, of the thickness OF the
palm of the hand, and wrought in seventy
two squares, which were joined together.
80. 1.-The centurion The Roman officer
who had charge of the crucifNion. Saw"
When he saw what was done he acknowl-
a. I.-.-o1 ,-,e hnrtnr He