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Matthew 26:67 - Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him,

Observe that these men, the priests, and scribes, and elders, and their servitors, did this shameful deed after they had heard our Lord say, “Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.” Why did what Jesus say upset them so much? The high priest was supposed to be the head of everything good. Are there those that some look to today as religious, that are spitting in His face?

This spitting shows us, first, how far sin will go. If we want proof of the depravity of the heart of man, I will not point you to the stews of Sodom and Gomorrah, nor will I take you to the places where blood is shed in streams by wretches like to Herod and men of that sort. No, the clearest proof that man is utterly fallen, and that the natural heart is enmity against God, is seen in the fact that they did spit in Christ’s face, did falsely accuse him, and condemn him, and lead him out as a malefactor, and hang him up as a felon that he might die upon the cross. Why, what evil had Jesus done? What was there in his whole life that should give them occasion to spit in his face?

He had healed their sick, he had fed their hungry, he had been among them a very fountain of blessing up and down Judaea and Samaria; and yet, “then did they spit in his face.” How could He bear this spitting when, with one glance of his eye, had he been but angry, the flame might have slain them, and withered them all up?

There are still some who spit in Christ’s face by denying his Godhead. They say, “He is a mere man; a good man, it is true, but only a man;” Would a good man claim to be God if He were not God?

They also do the same who rail at his gospel. There are many, in these days, who seem as if they cannot be happy unless they are tearing the gospel to pieces.

Wherefore judge yourselves in this matter, and if ye have ever denied Christ’s Deity, or if ye have ever assailed his atoning sacrifice, it might truly have been said of you, “Then did they spit in his face.”

Further, this evil is also done when men prefer their own righteousness to the righteousness of Christ. There are some who say, “We do not need pardon, we do not want to be justified by faith in Christ, we are good enough already,”

The same thing is, oh! so sadly true when anyone forsakes the profession of being a follower of Christ.

Yet, alas! how many are thus still spitting in Christ’s face? Perhaps some now present are doing it.

What, then, if they also spit in mine?

for as he was put to such terrible shame, everyone who has been redeemed with his precious blood ought to count it an honour to be a partaker of the shame, if by any means we may screen him from being further despised and rejected of men.