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Chapter 39 |
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A great multitude was gathered that day about the cross, but most of the people were there to mock. Even the chief priests mocked Him. We must remember that it was while He was dying in love for the world that the world was thus pouring bitterness into His cup. Strange return indeed to get for such infinite love! Yet it shows more and more the depth and wondrousness of that love, that even the treatment He received from men while giving His life for men did not chill His love. They said, “He saved others; Himself He cannot save.” That is just what love must always do — sacrifice itself, that it may save other. Jesus did not save Himself because He would save the world He loved.
We have a glimpse of the most intense moment of Christ’s agony in His cry, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” We never can understand this cry. We learn here a little more of the infinite cost of our redemption. Then let us never forget that it is because death was so terrible to Him that we can look upon dying as simply passing through a valley of shadows with divine companionship. He “tasted death for every man.” He endured death’s awful bitterness that we may die in sweet peace.
The rending of the veil in the temple as Jesus died tells of the completion of His work of redemption. The way of access to God was now opened to all the world. Heretofore none but the priest could enter the Holy of holies; now all could enter.
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