Chapter 1 A Consecrated Life - Far Eastern Bible College

might be fulfilled, which saith, They parted my raiment among
them, and for my vesture they did cast lots.
Here we see the soldiers tearing up and gambling for the only
personal possessions He had left in this world. How can anyone treat the
possessions of a king in such a terrible way?
Let us try our best to imagine this scene as vividly as our minds can
imagine, based on our passage in the Gospel of John. And to make the
scene even more vivid, let us also add what the other Gospel writers
describe about this same event. According to Matthew 27:39–44,
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, And
saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three
days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from
the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with
the scribes and elders, said, He saved others; himself he cannot
save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from
the cross, and we will believe him. He trusted in God; let him
deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son
of God. The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast
the same in his teeth.
According to the Gospel of Luke, even the soldiers joined in to
mock Him, saying, “If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself”
(23:37). There seemed to be no one who did not have an unkind word to
hurl at Him as He hung helplessly on the cross. The whole world was
represented at the cross reviling and
crucifying the Lord. But all of these
verbal abuses that Jesus endured for
six hours was nothing compared to
the extreme anguish He experienced
of being abandoned by the One who
was dearest to Him: God the Father
Himself. Both Matthew and Mark
record that after those six hours
when His sufferings reached the
highest point and became most
unbearable, Jesus shouted from the
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