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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. I wonder if he was a black man. There was a Simon in the early Church; and it certainly was the lot of the Ethiopian to bear the cross for many and many an age. This Simon was a stranger, anyhow, and a foreigner; truly honoured was he to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. It was too heavy for him to carry alone, so they bade Simon help him; and, truly, I think that Simon was thereby highly honoured. If this was Simon, who is called Niger, then there may be some truth in the common belief that he was a black man;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. Perhaps they were afraid that Christ would die from exhaustion; so they compelled Simon to bear his cross. Any one of Christ’s followers might have wished to have been this man of Cyrene; but we need not envy him, for there is a cross for each of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. He wholly abstained from that which might have lessened his pain. He came to suffer, and he intended to go through with all that he had undertaken. He would...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, From its shape. There appears to be to this day a hill still in the form of a human skull outside the gate of Jerusalem. When they came to that common place of execution, the Tyburn or Old Bailey of the city,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. It was not because of its bitterness that our Lord refused it, for he did not decline to endure anything that would add to his grief; but this was a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, — We do not know why it was so called. There have been many conjectures concerning the name, but they are only conjectures. It was probably just a little knoll, outside the gate of the city, — the common place of execution for malefactors, and the special...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. Golgotha was the common place of execution for malefactors, the Tyburn or Old Bailey of Jerusalem, outside the gate of the city. There was a special...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, they gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. This was a stupefying draught, which was usually given to prisoners about to die in order to mitigate their pain, and therefore Christ would not drink it,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. A stupefying draught was given to the condemned that is the only mercy that there was about the whole thing. The Romans did give to the crucified a draught of myrrh to take away something of the agony of crucifixion; but our Lord came not to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: A stupefying draught was usually given to the criminals who were crucified, to mitigate their agony; but Christ did not wish for that to be done in his case. Mat_27:34. And when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. He came to earth that he might suffer, and he would retain all his faculties...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they crucified him, and parted his garment, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down they watched him there, and set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS. And so he is, and so he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they crucified him, Horrible scene, to see those blessed hands and feet pierced with nails, and fastened to the cross! Mat_27:35. And parted his garments, casting lots: Rattling the dice-box at the foot of the cross! Gambling is the most hardening of all vices. I believe that crimes have been committed by persons, under the influence of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down they watched him there; His enemies gloating their cruel eyes with the sight of his sufferings; his friends with many tears watching his amazing griefs. It is for us, tonight, with humble faith...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they crucified him,-- A short sentence, but what an awful depth of meaning there is in it! “They crucified him,”-driving their iron bolts through his hands and feet, and lifting him up to hang there upon the gibbet which was reserved for felons and for slaves: “They crucified him,”- Mat_27:35. And parted his garments, casting lots: that it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. And sitting down they watched him there; Some of them gloating their cruel eyes with the sight of his suffering others watching him out of mere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. There is a world of meaning in that short sentence, “and they crucified him,” driving their bolts of iron through his blessed hands and feet,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots. This is a point upon which we cannot say much, but, to the peculiarly sensitive soul of Jesus, it must have been a great part of his shame thus to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And sitting down they watched him there; Some to gloat, in their fiendish malice, over his sufferings; others, to make sure that he did really die; and, possibly, some few to pity him in his agony: “Sitting down they watched him there.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And sitting down they watched him there; Some watched him from curiosity, some to make sure that he really did die, some even delighted their cruel eyes with his sufferings; and there were some, hard by the cross, who wept and bewailed, a sword passing through their own hearts while the Son of man was agonizing even unto death.