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NASB | Mark 15:19 They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Mark 15:19 They kept beating Him on the head with a reed and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing in [mock] homage to Him. [Is 50:6] |
Subject: Why was Christ Despised (Is 53:3) |
Bible Note: "Why was (and is) Christ 'despised and rejected by men'? "First, because He required inward purity. Herein is the great difference between all human religions and the Divine religion. All human religions concern themselves with external performances -- but the Christian religion is only concerned with the source of all conduct. 'Man looks on the outward appearance -- but the Lord looks on the heart' (1 Sam. 16:7). It was Christ's exposition and enforcement of this truth, which made Him so unpopular with the leaders. 'Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean. Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness!' (Matthew 23:25-28). "Why was Christ 'despised and rejected by men'? Second, because He demanded repentance. 'Repent -- and believe the Gospel' (Mark 1:15) was His claimant call -- that order is unchanging, for it is impossible to savingly believe the Gospel until the heart is contrite. Repentance is taking sides with God against ourselves -- it is the unsparing judgment of ourselves because of our high-handed rebellion. It is a ceasing to love and tolerate sin, and excusing ourselves for the commission of it. It is a mourning before God because of our transgressions of His holy Law. And therefore did Christ teach, 'Unless you repent -- you shall all likewise perish!' (Luke 13:3), for He would not condone evil. He came to save His people from their sins -- and not in them. "Why was Christ 'despised and rejected by men'? Third, because He insisted on the denial of self, and this at two principal points, namely, the indulging and the exalting of self. All fleshly lusts are to be unsparingly mortified, and self-righteousness is allowed no place under the Gospel scheme. This was made unmistakably plain by our Lord's teaching, 'If any man will come after Me -- let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me' (Matt. 16:24). Yet nothing is more contrary to the desires of the natural man, and Christ's insistence upon these terms of discipleship causes Him to be 'despised and rejected by men.'" --Arthur W. Pink |
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