He will not draw back before the vilest insults. “I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.”
All will be against Him in the supreme moment. “They have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. For my love they are my adversaries.”
The son cries to the Father:
“Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: mine adversaries are all before thee.
“Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.”
They pierce Him with nails and divide His clothes among themselves.
“For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet
“... they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”
Too late they will understand what they have done and will repent.