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Adding insult to injury, they exposed the Lord Jesus unto the indignities of a mock coronation – robbing them in scarlet, crowning Him with thorns, hailing Him as King of the Jews. Giving full expression to their enmity, they spat upon Him, smote Him with a reed and mocked Him. Restoring to Him His clothing, they conducted Him to Golgotha and affixed Him to the cross. Having gambled for His garments, they sat down to watch Him – to frustrate any attempt at rescue, which his friends might make, and to wait until life was extinct.\n",{"id":84,"text":85,"type":74,"level":86},"10b6dd05-2993-4a46-a008-52424fc2e162","LESSON OUTLINES",3,{"id":88,"text":89,"type":74,"level":90},"dc47accd-3fdf-4954-9abf-5c5dc67128d8"," What Did The Soldiers See As They Sat Down To Watch?",4,{"id":92,"text":93,"type":79},"af4cde60-9b57-47ac-8721-afca32b666a9","1) The beheld the most amazing event of all history, the most awe-inspiring spectable ever set before the eyes of men, the most tragic and yet most glorious deed ever per-men, the most tragic and yet most glorious deed ever performed. They beheld God incarnate taken by wicked hands and slain-yet at the same time the Redeemer voluntarily laying down His life for those who have forfeited every claim upon Him. To these soldiers it was an ordinary event – the execution of a criminal. And thus it is with most of those who hear the Gospel, it fails upon their as a religious common place. To those Roman soldiers, at least for a while, Christ appeared to them only as a dying Jew. Thus it is with the multitude today – to them the Lamb of God posses neither form nor loveliness, and when He is set before them in the mirror of the Word, they see in Him no beauty that they should desire Him. His peerless person has no attraction for them – His righteous claims are dis-regarded – His scepter is flouted-for His atoning blood, they feel no need.",{"id":95,"text":96,"type":79},"ba7d2353-effa-411c-8d97-0871cf9e4b4e","2) They beheld the incomparable perfections of the crucified One. How immeasurably different the department of the suffering Saviour from what they had witnessed from others in similar circumstances! No cursing of His lot, no reviling of His enemies, no maledictions upon themselves. The very reverse - His lips are engaged in prayer! “Father” He says, “forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). How amazed they must have been as they hear that Blessed One on the tree making intercession for the transgressors (Isa.5312). The two thieves who were crucified with Him mocked the Redeemer (Matt.27:44), but at the eleventh hour one of them was “granted repentance unto life” (Acts 11:18) and turning to Jesus he said “Lord remember me when thou comest into Thy Kingdom” (Luke 23:42).\nThe Lord did not decline his appeal and he say he had sinned beyond the reach of mercy but answered, “verily, I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with Me in paradise” (Lk.23:43).\nThus, they witnessed an unparalleled display of sovereign grace unto one of the greatest of sinners.",{"id":98,"text":99,"type":79},"b74d445a-63dc-4a6d-b69d-3f71fb918b43","3) They beheld most mysterious phenomena. They had sat down to “watch Him”, but after a while they were no longer able to do so. At midday it suddenly became as midnight (Matt.27:45). It was as though the sun refused to shine on such scene, as though nature itself was mourning over such a sight! During those three hours a transaction took place between Christ and God, which is infinitely too sacred for finite eyes to gaze upon – a mystery which no mortal mind can fully enter into.\n\n",{"id":101,"text":102,"type":74,"level":86},"afa3175a-09ec-45a3-a9b4-474a620837b8","SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION",{"id":104,"text":105,"type":79},"7bc396e5-49b2-400e-998e-a858dcfdf494","The Roman Soldiers sat to watch Him but they saw more than they expected for as soon as the Saviour committed His Spirit into the Father’s hands; the veil of the temple tore into two, the earth quake, the rocks rent and the graves were opened (Matt.27:51-52). No ordinary sufferer was this. 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