Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1904-06-10
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE n.

Days Lesson.
I. The journey to Calvary ". 22). D.
"They bring Him" Pilates sentence is
supposed to have been given about
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. 1928:
%. "Wine-myrrh" 1t was a merciful
custom of the Jews to give those con-
demned to cruci6xion, with 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 would obscure the
c,earness 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 23:3D. This was probably spo-
ken in the height of the agony, when the
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 coat" that is, His tunlc or
under garment, which was without seam
and which would have been ruined If d.
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
Bile. The legacy in worldly things left by
Jesus was very small. %. Third hour.
Nine o'clock in the morning. Ihey cruci'
fed Him." His hands and feet were
nailed to the cross luke A:39, 4O), ana
then it was lifted and sunk INTO the
ground with sudden shock, producing
great pain. The feet OF the sufferer were
only a foot or two above the ground.
26. "Supcrscription. The white tablet
nailed upon tine cross above the head OF
the victim, to declare the crime for when
He was cruci6ed. 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 for the Romans
liking 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" q. 1.-TWO thieves. This was
probably done with the intention OF giving
The neople to think that Jesus was to be
classed with them %. Scripture was tut
filed" Isaiah 53:l2. Omitted in R. w.
TII. Christ Knocked Tvs. 1892. %.
"Railed on Him" They utter taunts
founded on caluminous INTERPRETATIONS
of His words: they ridicule His kingshlp
and even His piety; they trampie on HIS
pretences and exult over His weakness
HWagging." An accompanying gesture
expressive of contempt. "Ah." An eXca-
nation of derision. Destroyed the tenn
pie" At the first cleansing OF the temple
Jesus had said, destroy this temple ana
in three days | will raise 1T up (Johh =:
1871. They had never forgotten this. At
His trial before Caiaphas, the previous
night tbey charged Him with saying that
He was able to destroy the temple and
build Il in three days Matt. 1851. but
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. go "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 lie. Ii
He does not then He is so far from being
the Messiah that He is justly cruclhed for
making such pretensions. =, u L.:
81. 7'Chef priests-scribes:, The dlgni'
taries and members Of the Sanhedrin, as
well as the ordinary bystanders, Knocked,
for they suppose they have cameo T Sonr,
nlete victory. 80. "They-reviled. From
his if anpears that at first both of the
thieves reproached Christ. .,
". Christ crucifed Tvs, $780,. IS.
"Sixth hour" Noon. Darkness. Inc
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 Marx.
1t was spoken toward the close OF the
darkness. "Eloi, etc." Mark preserves
the Aramiac words exactly as they were were
spoken by Jesus. The repetition, NY
God! My God" gives. deeply pathet,lc
force. 1t is an expression OF utter iohei''
ness and desolation.
35 "He calleth Elias" They either only
caught the first syllable, or mlsapprre'
bended the words, or, as some think, sp0ke,
in wilful mockery and declared He called
not ON eli" God. but on elias" whose
annearance was universally expected. 30.
Vinegar" Burning thirst Is the most
nainfuI augravation Of death by cruclhxlon.
| Christ now uttered His fifth saying on the
cross. 81 thirst" John 1928. This was
His only expression of bodily suffering. 1t
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 con a reed" The short stem OF
bvsson 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, unmIxedti
with any drug, was accepted. Let alone,
etc. This was probably uttered seriously.
81. "a loud voice" As it were the trl'
umphant cry of a conqueror. lie now ut,
tered His sixth saying: 1T Is finished
| (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 sui
fering the atonement for the sins OF the
world the old era and dispensation. The
seventh saying was, Father, into Thy
hands I commend My spirit" duke %.
46). "Gave up the ghost. He dismissed
the spirit. He Himself willingly gave up
His own life. a., m
49, 'The veil-was rent" The great
veil of the temple that hung between the
holy place and the holy Of holies, forty Gu
bits (sixty feet) long and twenty cubIts
Thirty feet) wide, of the thickness OF the
palm of the hand, and wrought in seventy
two squares, which were joined together.
20. "fhe centurion" The Roman officer
who had charge Of the crucifxion. "Saw."
When he saw what was done ne acknowi-