"No one ever so yearned to express his affection, so longed and tried to explain himself and his mission.
--Yet His own mother understood Him not;
--His brethren did not believe in Him;
--every human companion seems to have been a broken reed piercing Him to the heart;
--His disciples, until the day of His death, were loyal mainly from selfish motives;
--a disciple whose feet He had washed betrayed Him;
--the sturdiest of them all denied Him;
--they all forsook Him and fled;
--the multitudes who had felt the healing power of His compassion, the authority of His words, the divineness of His being, and witnessed the miraculous and beneficent demonstrations of His power, shouted for His crucifixion;
--His own nation rejected Him;
--His own religion crucified Him;
*and thus He presented Himself, the willing victim of our sins, to be rent in soul, mangled in flesh, broken in heart, that He might show us the Father, show us ourselves, and lead us back to our Father's house."
The Larger Christ, by George D. Herron, pp. 59, 60
--Yet His own mother understood Him not;
--His brethren did not believe in Him;
--His disciples, until the day of His death, were loyal mainly from selfish motives;
--a disciple whose feet He had washed betrayed Him;
--the sturdiest of them all denied Him;
--they all forsook Him and fled;
--the multitudes who had felt the healing power of His compassion, the authority of His words, the divineness of His being, and witnessed the miraculous and beneficent demonstrations of His power, shouted for His crucifixion;
--His own nation rejected Him;
--His own religion crucified Him;
*and thus He presented Himself, the willing victim of our sins, to be rent in soul, mangled in flesh, broken in heart, that He might show us the Father, show us ourselves, and lead us back to our Father's house."
The Larger Christ, by George D. Herron, pp. 59, 60