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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. There was no look of pity, no token of sympathy; they were all eager for his death. The mighty men of the day and the religions men of the day were not content until they had slain the one and only Saviour of men. Psa_22:15. My strength is dried up like a potsherd; The wounds...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; Our Lord was parched with the fever brought on by the terrible anguish and strain upon the hands and feet, which are full of nerves and very tender. A slight wound of the thumb has brought on lockjaw, but what the wounds of the Saviour’s delicate and sensitive body must...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For dogs have compassed me,.... By whom are meant wicked men, as the following clause shows; and so the Chaldee paraphrase renders it, "the wicked who are like to many dogs"; and to these such are often compared in Scripture, Matthew 7:6; and it may be the Roman soldiers, who were Gentiles, may be chiefly intended, whom the Jews used to call dogs,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: The many, the vulgar multitude, like a pack of hounds, crowded around the Saviour on the cross. Psa_22:16. The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. David could never say this of himself; no one else but our Lord Jesus Christ could talk after this wondrous fashion. Yet this Psalm...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: this assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. The common multitude, with ribald jest and execrable mockery, stood there taunting him. He was encircled by them, like a poor hunted stag surrounded by the hounds.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: These were the common people, the rabble, the multitude that thronged around, barking at him like a pack of hungry hounds. Psa_22:16. They pierced my hands and my feet. This little sentence shows that this Psalm must relate to the Lord Jesus. Truly did David see him in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For dogs have compassed me: There is the ribald crowd, the common multitude, howling at him, and eager for his blood.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They had stripped him, and this was no small part of the Saviour’s grief and shame that he hung there a spectacle of scorn to ten thousand cruel eyes that looked and stared at him.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And thou hast brought me into the dust of death. He felt as if his very frame was all turning to the dust of which the body is made. So complete is the breaking of the whole manhood when a strong fever is upon one. Psa_22:16. For dogs have compassed me: There was the ribald crowd; not this time the bulls of Bashan, the great ones, but the mob, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: The hind of the morning is now surrounded by the dogs. He cannot escape.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. Horrible, to the tender, modest soul of Jesus, were those vile stares of the ribald multitude as they gazed upon him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I may tell all my bones,.... For what with the stretching out of his body on the cross, when it was fastened to it as it lay on the ground, and with the jolt of the cross when, being reared up, it was fixed in the ground, and with the weight of the body hanging upon it, all his bones were disjointed and started out; so that, could he have seen...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: Jesus could look down upon his own emaciated person as he hung there naked upon the cross. Psa_22:17. They look and stare upon me. Their cruel inquisitive gazing galled his delicate sensitive nature.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They stood mocking at his nakedness, jesting at his emaciated form.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. He is emaciated through his fasting and all the agony he has endured, and his bones seem to break through his skin by reason of the cruel scourging to which he had been subjected.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I may tell all my bones: He is so emaciated that, as he looks down upon his body, he says, “I may tell all my bones.” Psa_22:17. They look and stare upon me. The delicate modesty of the Saviour is shocked. They have stripped him, and hung him up, and there they stand and gloat their cruel eyes upon his matchless body: “They look and stare upon me.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They part my garments among them,.... Such as died the death of the cross were crucified naked (h), and their clothes were the perquisites of the executioners; there were four soldiers concerned in the crucifixion of Christ, and these parted his garments into four parts, and everyone took his part; and cast lots on my vesture; which was a seamless...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog. Save me from the lion’s mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. He had been heard in past years, and he pleads for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be thou not far from me, O LORD: That is still the very center of our Saviour’s suffering, so he turns his pleading in that direction. He does not ask that the dogs may be called off, nor that the bulls may be driven away; but his cry is, “Be not thou far from me, O Lord.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture. But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, — That is, El, — the name he gave to God in the first verse: “O my strong One,” —