Mat. 27:14. "And he answered him to never a word." The reason why he did not speak, or answer his accusers and those that sought his life from falsehood, malice, unreasonableness, and cruelty, was his wonderful meekness in the midst of all the affronts and injuries, afflictions and vexations, that h... [ Continue Reading ]
Mat. 27:45 Mat. 27:45. "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour." This darkness seems to be a presage of the approaching destruction of that land, for that sin of crucifying Christ. This darkness begins _at noon_, whereby the sun, as it were, went down at no... [ Continue Reading ]
Mat. 27:51. "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom." This was the veil that hindered our access to the throne of grace, or the mercy-seat in the holy of holies. That hiding of the mercy-seat, and hindering of our access to the mercy-seat, figured a twofold... [ Continue Reading ]
Mat. 27:60. "And laid it in his own new tomb." Christ was laid in a disciple's grave; he suffered that death which belonged to us, and he was laid in our grave. He entered into the shade of death in our stead; he went down into that deep pit where we were to have gone. He had no sin of his own, so h... [ Continue Reading ]