Sunday, April 3, 2022

Questions of the Silence of The Lamb

 He answered him to never a word.
Matthew 27:14
 
"He had never been slow of speech when He could bless the sons of men, but He would not say a single word for Himself. "Never man spake like this Man," and never man was silent like Him. 
 
Q:   Did it show that He would not utter a word to stay the slaughter
of His sacred person, which He had dedicated as an offering for us? 

Q:   Had He so entirely surrendered Himself that He would not interfere in His own behalf, even in the minutest degree, but be bound and slain an unstruggling, uncomplaining victim? 
 
Q:  Was this silence a type of the defenselessness of sin? 
 
Q:  Is not patient silence the best reply to a gainsaying world? 
 
The best apologists for Christianity in the early days were its martyrs. 
The anvil breaks a host of hammers by quietly bearing their blows. Did not the silent Lamb of God furnish us with a grand example of wisdom? 
 
A long defense of Himself would have been contrary to Isaiah's prediction. "He is led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth." 

By His quiet He conclusively proved Himself to be the true Lamb of God."  
Charles Spurgeon