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“All they that see Me laugh Me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver Him: let Him deliver Him, seeing He delighted in Him” (Psalms 22:7-8).
David wrote this almost one thousand years before the Lord Jesus came into the world, yet he prophesied exactly how the world would treat the Lord Jesus. The Lord Jesus had escaped from the hands of those who wanted to harm Him many times during His earthly ministry, but when it was time for Him to go to the cross, He submitted to the will of God His Father. There was no other way for sin to be put away.
When He was hanging on the cross, people passed by and commented just as David had said. We read what they said in Matthew 27:43, “He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now, if He will have Him: for He said, I am the Son of God.” These were awful words for men to say, for the Lord Jesus could easily have come down from the cross and sent this whole world to hell. But He remained there and bore the punishment for sin. What wonderful love and grace He displayed!
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