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behold Him led by a wicked multitude, with swords and
staves, to the judgment hall, before his cruel, blood-thirsty
enemies, but what meekness, holy serenity, and dignity
appear in His countenance and conduct before these wolves
of the enemy, who thirsted to suck His innocent blood !
When the high-priest asked Jesus, " Art Thou the Christ,
the Son of the Blessed 1" Jesus said, " I am, and ye shall
see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power, and
coming in the clouds of heaven." Again, when nailed to the
cross, and lifted up an object of shame and derision, mark
the kindness, love, and compassion of His heart. Seeing
His mother, whose soul was now pierced through with the
sword of her suffering Son and Saviour, He saith unto her,
u Woman, behold thy Son ! Then saith He to the disciple
whom He loved, Behold thy mother !" Mother, I give thee
another son. Son, I give thee another mother ; take charge
of her. " And from that hour that disciple took her to his
own home." And when one of the malefactors, under a sense
of his own guilt and danger, and of Christ's innocence and
character, applied to Him for salvation, saying, "Lord,
remember me when Thou comest to Thy Kingdom," Jesus
said unto him, " Verily, I say unto you, to-day thou shalt be
with me in Paradise." Thus, as a Saviour and King, He
bestowed salvation on the penitent thief nailed at His side
on the ignominious cross. Consider, I beseech you, the
sufferings of Jesus, the Son of God, in the garden of
Gethsemane and upon the cross. He endured the punish-
ment due to sin, the wrath of the Father He loved, yet He
loved His Father that bruised Him — " But Thou art holy,
Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel." He was
reproached, mocked, crucified by men, yet he pitied them
and prayed for them. Thus He was " obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross." What moral and spiritual
beauty, obedience, meekness, tenderness, and love, fortitude,
and dignity, appear in the man Christ Jesus in His sufferings
and death ! And it was obedience and love to His Heavenly
Father, love, pity, suffering, and death for the vile, guilty,
and worthless children of men ! " Thou art fairer than the
children of men." The beauty, loveliness, sufferings, and
death of Christ should touch, melt, and win our hearts to
Him. How are we hardened and bewitched with sin 1