27 Now is my soul troubled: and Tvttat shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
28 Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven saying, I havo both glorified it, and will glo- rify it again.
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered : others said, An angel spake to him.
30 Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
33 This he said, signifying what death he should die.
These verses show us what St. Peter meant, when he said, " There are some things hard to be understood " in Scrip- ture. (2 Pet. iii. 16.) There are depths here which we have no line to fathom thoroughly. This need not surprise us, or shake our faith. The Bible would not be a book " given by inspiration of God," if it did not contain many things which pass man's finite understanding. With all its difficulties it contains thousands of passages which the most unlearned may easily comprehend. Even here, if we look steadily at these verses, we may gather from them lessons of no mean importance.
We have, first, in these verses, a great doctrine indirectly proved. That doctrine is the imputation of man's sin to Christ.
We see the Saviour of the world, the eternal Son of God troubled and disturbed in mind : " Now is my soul troubled." We see Him who could heal diseases with a