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Where other evangelists might spare us the indignity, John insists on recording Christ's thirst upon the Cross and His weariness at Jacob's well.
Maclaren insists we grasp the profound mystery embedded in this juxtaposition: the dependent Christ.
When we trace all things to their origin, we discover that mere critical terms prove unsatisfying; we yearn for something deeper.
The text "made like unto His brethren" (Hebrews 2:17) presents a perfect model proposition: Christ *is* made like us, and it *behoved* Him to be so.
As the Eternal Word took flesh from the Virgin Mary by the operation of the Holy Ghost, so are we born anew through grace.