Who can understand it?Īnd Pilate looked at Him as if to say thou a king, poor peasant.
The true king before the bar of an apparent ruler is the crowning paradox of history and the mystery of self-abasing love. There was an excitement about sin that day and the fair countenance of our Lord was soon covered with spittle. Take me let Brooks go, Take me let sinners go.Īfter that he was abused and humiliated unspeakably. Jesus always like that, facing danger, taking the brunt of things and letting us off. Identifying with us in humanity and he asked again “whom seek ye?” and the same group having just recovered stood up and said Jesus of Nazareth and Christ said “I am he send them away, let these go”. Not now, and so divinity passed away as it were and he again became Mary’s boy. But Christ would not be delivered by divinity.
You would have thought this enough to teach them a lesson. When they approached him Jesus asked, “whom seek ye?” And when they had responded divinity flashed through humanity and the record is, they fell as dead men. Christ had prayed in the garden of Gethsemane and as he prayed a torch lit mob invaded the privacy of that moment, A wine filled rabble of Israel coming to arrest the creator and to take him off as a criminal.
