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Yet the most penetrating insight concerns what seems like deprivation—that He shall depart.
They possessed nothing—no influence, no numbers, no world support.
The historical fulfillment is breathtaking: for three days the Cross was the occasion of their panic and despair, the apparent ruin of all their hopes.
Within twenty-four hours of His crucifixion—knowing the agony and baptism of sorrow awaiting Him—not one word escaped His lips concerning His personal pain.
The world swarms with 'all unrighteousness and wickedness, lust and immorality, intemperance, cruelty, hatred; all manner of buzzing evils that stink and sting around us.' Yet our Lord 'passes them all by and points to a mere negative thing, to...
He declares, 'These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended'—preparing them not merely for persecution from the pagan world, but for something far more insidious: the organised Church itself becoming their most rampant enemy.
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