1"Yea,’’ saith our Lord Jesus Christ, "it is as thou sayest, I am that Messiah, but not such a one as they expect.’’ He is the king that rules and protects his Israel according to the spirit, who are Jews inwardly by the circumcision of the spirit, and the king that will restrain and punish the carnal Jews, who continue in unbelief.
2"What will ye that I shall do to him whom ye call the King of the Jews? Would not ye then have him released too?’’. No, say they, Crucify him. The priests having put that in their mouths, they insist upon it; when Pilate objected, Why, what evil has he done? (a very material question in such a case), they did not pretend to answer it, but cried out more exceedingly, as they were more and more instigated and irritated by the priests, Crucify him, crucify him.
3Pontus Pilate, to gratify the Jews’ malice, delivers Our Lord Jesus Christ to be crucified. Willing to content the people, to do enough for them (so the word is), and make them easy, that he might keep them quiet, he released Barabbas unto them, who was the scandal and plague of their nation, and delivered Jesus Christ to be crucified, who was the glory and blessing of their nation.
4The cross was a very troublesome unwieldy load: but he that carried it a few minutes, had the honor to have his name upon the record in the book of God, though otherwise an obscure person; so that, wherever this gospel is preached; there shall this be told for a memorial to him
5He was brought before Pilate about the sixth hour, according to the Roman way of reckoning, which St. John uses, with which ours at this day agrees, that is at six o’clock in the morning; and then, at the third hour, according to the Jews’ way of reckoning, that is, about nine of the clock in the morning, or soon after, they nailed him to the cross.
6Our Lord Jesus Christ crucified is king of his church, his spiritual Israel; and even then when he hung on the cross, he was like a king, conquering his and his people’s enemies, and triumphing over them.
7Here we have an account of Our Lord Jesus Christ’s dying, how his enemies abused him, and God honored him at his death. There was a thick darkness over the whole land (some think over the whole earth), for three hours, from noon till three of the clock.
8Just at that instant that Our Lord Jesus Christ’s died upon mount Calvary, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. This bespoke a great deal. Of the terror of the unbelieving Jews; for it was a presage of the utter destruction of their church and nation, which followed not long after; it was like the cutting asunder of the staff of beauty (for this veil was exceedingly splendid and glorious, and that was done at the same time when they gave for his price thirty pieces of silver, to break the covenant which he had made with that people.
9Our Lord Jesus Christ, even in the depth of his sufferings and humiliation, was the Son of God, and was declared to be so with power.
10We are attending the funeral of our Lord Jesus, a solemn, mournful funeral. O that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Observe, how the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ was begged. It was, as the dead bodies of malefactors are, at the disposal of the government. Those that hurried him to the cross, designed that he should make his grave with the wicked; but God designed he should make it with the rich, and so he did.
2"What will ye that I shall do to him whom ye call the King of the Jews? Would not ye then have him released too?’’. No, say they, Crucify him. The priests having put that in their mouths, they insist upon it; when Pilate objected, Why, what evil has he done? (a very material question in such a case), they did not pretend to answer it, but cried out more exceedingly, as they were more and more instigated and irritated by the priests, Crucify him, crucify him.
3Pontus Pilate, to gratify the Jews’ malice, delivers Our Lord Jesus Christ to be crucified. Willing to content the people, to do enough for them (so the word is), and make them easy, that he might keep them quiet, he released Barabbas unto them, who was the scandal and plague of their nation, and delivered Jesus Christ to be crucified, who was the glory and blessing of their nation.
4The cross was a very troublesome unwieldy load: but he that carried it a few minutes, had the honor to have his name upon the record in the book of God, though otherwise an obscure person; so that, wherever this gospel is preached; there shall this be told for a memorial to him
5He was brought before Pilate about the sixth hour, according to the Roman way of reckoning, which St. John uses, with which ours at this day agrees, that is at six o’clock in the morning; and then, at the third hour, according to the Jews’ way of reckoning, that is, about nine of the clock in the morning, or soon after, they nailed him to the cross.
6Our Lord Jesus Christ crucified is king of his church, his spiritual Israel; and even then when he hung on the cross, he was like a king, conquering his and his people’s enemies, and triumphing over them.
7Here we have an account of Our Lord Jesus Christ’s dying, how his enemies abused him, and God honored him at his death. There was a thick darkness over the whole land (some think over the whole earth), for three hours, from noon till three of the clock.
8Just at that instant that Our Lord Jesus Christ’s died upon mount Calvary, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. This bespoke a great deal. Of the terror of the unbelieving Jews; for it was a presage of the utter destruction of their church and nation, which followed not long after; it was like the cutting asunder of the staff of beauty (for this veil was exceedingly splendid and glorious, and that was done at the same time when they gave for his price thirty pieces of silver, to break the covenant which he had made with that people.
9Our Lord Jesus Christ, even in the depth of his sufferings and humiliation, was the Son of God, and was declared to be so with power.
10We are attending the funeral of our Lord Jesus, a solemn, mournful funeral. O that we may by grace be planted in the likeness of it! Observe, how the body of Our Lord Jesus Christ was begged. It was, as the dead bodies of malefactors are, at the disposal of the government. Those that hurried him to the cross, designed that he should make his grave with the wicked; but God designed he should make it with the rich, and so he did.
