He trusted on the LORDthat he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
The verse foretells the mocking taunt Christ would endure in His suffering on the cross, challenging Him to trust in the Lord for deliverance because God delighted in Him. His trust in God and God's delight in Him became the very subjects of derision, as passersby shook their heads and ridiculed Him for trusting God to deliver Him. The words spoken in derision by the people gathered around Jesus during His crucifixion fulfilled prophecy and led people to search Scripture and understand Christ's mission.
At Calvary the taunt was spoken by passersby who shook their heads and by spectators and the people gathered around Jesus. Specifically the blind, bigoted and faithless priests, rulers, scribes and elders stood close to the cross and repeated the challenge for God to deliver Him now if God delighted in Him. They forgot the dignity of their sacred offices and joined the rabble in mocking the dying Son of God with those very words. They mocked Him because He had said He was the Son of God and because He had claimed to be the Son of God, demanding that if He were the King of Israel and the Son of God He save Himself and come down from the cross.
By inspiration the verse gave beforehand the exact taunt that would be spoken against Christ, that since He trusted in God let God deliver Him now if God delighted in Him. The priests, rulers and others repeated these very words without realizing and without recognizing that they were fulfilling prophecy. Though they professed to be expounders of prophecy, in their blindness they did not perceive that they were fulfilling it.
While He hung suspended between heaven and earth as a criminal, with His sorrowing disciples looking on with bursting hearts at a distance, Jesus answered not one word to their mocking, jeering and taunting. Though He could have come down from the cross, He refused to save Himself. By refusing to save Himself He gave sinners hope of pardon and favor with God.
The verse foretells the mocking taunt Christ would endure in His suffering on the cross, challenging Him to trust in the Lord for deliverance because God delighted in Him. His trust in God and God's delight in Him became the very subjects of derision, as passersby shook their heads and ridiculed Him for trusting God to deliver Him. The words spoken in derision by the people gathered around Jesus during His crucifixion fulfilled prophecy and led people to search Scripture and understand Christ's mission.
At Calvary the taunt was spoken by passersby who shook their heads and by spectators and the people gathered around Jesus. Specifically the blind, bigoted and faithless priests, rulers, scribes and elders stood close to the cross and repeated the challenge for God to deliver Him now if God delighted in Him. They forgot the dignity of their sacred offices and joined the rabble in mocking the dying Son of God with those very words. They mocked Him because He had said He was the Son of God and because He had claimed to be the Son of God, demanding that if He were the King of Israel and the Son of God He save Himself and come down from the cross.
By inspiration the verse gave beforehand the exact taunt that would be spoken against Christ, that since He trusted in God let God deliver Him now if God delighted in Him. The priests, rulers and others repeated these very words without realizing and without recognizing that they were fulfilling prophecy. Though they professed to be expounders of prophecy, in their blindness they did not perceive that they were fulfilling it.
While He hung suspended between heaven and earth as a criminal, with His sorrowing disciples looking on with bursting hearts at a distance, Jesus answered not one word to their mocking, jeering and taunting. Though He could have come down from the cross, He refused to save Himself. By refusing to save Himself He gave sinners hope of pardon and favor with God.