The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1904-06-09
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE n. ...
Subject: Christ Crucifed, Mark xv., 22-39
Golden Text, Cor. xv., 3-Memory
Verses, 25-27 - Commentary on the
Day,a I,esson

| Verses, 25-27 - Commentary on tho
! Days Lesson.
l. 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. 'Goigotha." Col
gotha is the Hebrew and Calvary the Latin
| word with the same meaning.
II. Scenes around the cross Tvs. 1928.
q. "Wine-myrrh." 1t was merciful
custom of the Jews to give those con-
demned to cruci6xion, with view to pro-
wine. This "they offered" II. w. to
Christ; He tasted Matt. 7:3l, but re-
fused to drink, as it would 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 23:34). This was probably spo.
ken in the height of the agony, when the
cross with the victim upon it was dropped
with 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 coat" that is, His tunic or
under garment, which was without seam
and which would have been ruined # di-
vided. they cast lots (John 1925, 24).
Casting lots" What a picture. Amid
the most solemn scene of human history
the unconscious actors sit down to gam
BILE. The legacy Ii, worldly things lett oy
Jesus was very small. %. Third hour.
Nine o'clock in the morning. "They cruci-
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 or 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
He was crucifed. 1t was common Gus
tom to affix label to the cross, giving
statement of the crime for which the per-
son suffered. "Was written" Plate wrote
this superscription evidently in derlslon
John 1919. 1t was written in Hebrew
for the Jews, in Greek for the foreigners
and visitors, in Latin tor the Romans.
king 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 "King with many
crowns" ~. "Two thieves" This was
probably done with the intention OF giving
the people to think that Jesus was to be
classed with them. IS. Scripture was full
filed" Isaiah 53:l2. Omitted in K. w..
III. Christ Knocked Tvs. 29-2). %.
"Railed on Him." They utter tarnts
founded on caluminous misrepresentation
of His words; they ridicule His kinGshlp
and even His piety; they tramp,c on Ills
pretences and exult over His weakness.
exnressive of contempt. "Ah." An exela-
nation of derision. "Destroyest the tenn
pie" At the first cleansing of the temple
Jesus had said, Destroy this temple and
in three days 1 will raise it up" John 2;
1917. 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. 1851, but
this was perversion of His words, what
He said was that if they. DESTROYED 1T he
was able to ''raise it up" or rebuild 1t It IN
three days. 80. '.Save Thyself. They
thought that if Jesus were the Messian.
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 being
the Messiah that He is justly crucitied Tor
making such pretensions.. ;, m -.
81. "Chief priests-scribes." The digni-
taries and members of the Sanhedrin, as
we'll as the ordinary bystanders, Knocked,
for thew suppose they have gained COM
plete victory. 3d. "fhey-reviled;" From
this it appears that at first both OF the
thieves reproached Christ. ooo, .,
"Sixtb iy bour.s SnrrS' ie 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 utterance on the cross,
and is the only one recorded by Mark.
II was spoken toward the close OF the
darkness. "Eloi, etc." Mark preserves
the Aramiac words exactly as they were
spoken by Jesus. The repetition, My
God! NV God." gives deeply pathetic
force. 1t is an expression OF utter loneh-
ness and desolation.
35. "He calleth Elias" They either only
caught the first syllable, or mlsappre-
bended the words, or, as some think, spoke
not on Ell" God, but on elias" whose
appearance was universally expected. 80.
"Vineear." Burning thirst is the most
painful agpravation Of death by crucitixion.
Christ now uttered His fifth saying on the
cross, Il thirst" John 1928. This was
His only expression of bodily suffering. 1t
was then that soldier ran and filled
sponge with vinegar, or "the sour wine and
water called posca, the ordinary drink or
the Roman soldiers" and offered HIM to
drink. "On a reed" The short stem of a
hyssop plant. With this they. were able
to reach His mouth with the. sponge.
"Gaye Him." The first drink of vinegar
and gall Jesus refused, but this. unmixed
with any drug, was accepted. LET alone"
etc. This was probably uttered seriously.
81. "a loud voice" As it were the tn
umphant cry of a conqueror. He now ut,
tered His sixth saying: 1T Is tinlshed
John 1880. 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 suf-
fering, the atonement for the sins Of the
world. the old era and dispensation. The
seventh saying was Father into Thy
hands commend Ny spirit, Muke %;
Isl. Gave up the ghost" He dismissed
the spirit. He Himself Willingly gave up
His own life.
3S. "The. veil-was rent" The great
veil of the temple that hung between the
holy place and the holy of holies, forty GU
b;ts 1s;yty fpet) long and twenty cubltS