(/) Jesus even tells His enemies that He expects to be put to death in Jerusalem (Lk 13'-'). They were posing as His friends, but were either repre- sentatives of Herod Antipas or of the Jerusalem Pharisees. Jesus assertetl His independence of ' that fox ' and of them, but announced the inward necessity ('I must') that He should ultimately at the right time meet the fate of other prophets in JeiTisalem. His lament over Jerusalem reveals the depth of His love for that city, and demands a Judoean ministry such as that described by John.
ig) It is not till the death of Lazarus that the disciples realize that Jesus may be put to death (Jn 11^); and then as a dread growing out of the last attemjit of the Jews to kill Him at the feast of Dedication (ICF). Thomas has the courage of de-spair (11'") in the gloomy situation, but Jesus speaks of His own glorification (U-*- '"'). One item in this glorification was the formal decision of the Sanhedrin to put Jesus to death (IP^). AVith this formal decision resting over Him, Jesus withdrew to the hills of Epliraim, near where in the begin- ning He had refused Satan's offer of a comjiromise, and had chosen His own way and the I'ather's. Had He made a mistake?
3. Facing the end.— {a) The relation between the death of Christ and the consummation of the king- dom. It is in the last journey to Jerusalem that the Pharisees ask when the kingdom of God comes (Lk 17™). They are thinking of the apocalyptic conception cuiTent in their literature. There are two difficulties thus raised. One is their utter failure to understand the nature of the kingdom, for it is inner and spiritual, not external (the Papyri show that ivrds means 'within,' not 'among ).* But, tlumgh the kingdom had already come in this I III-, I here would be in the end a fuller and com- I'l I. 1 II alization of the work of the kingdom. It
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the word 'crucify' before He Jericho on this last journey to Jerusalem CI., however, Expos. Times, xv. (1904], 387.
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13", Mk It-, J.k ■_■-■■_•)•. playinj; a part just to tnllil tlie Sn i|ilure, Imt He .sees this olijeetive confirmation of thi- iniii'r vilni'ss of His spirit to the Father's i\ill cmreniin- His death. Besides, on this oeoasioii .Irsiis IkhI ni.-idc a .sijecial point i>f talkiir.;- ;i limit 1 1 is (■.miiiiL; ilnil h, takinK the Tw.-lv,. ni.nrt |Mt L'li'-'i. mid cxiilniiiiii- that He does s., now \»-v:m~n tliry ,-,rr iiciir .I.tii- salem. There Avnsan nini>ual louk on the Masters face, so much so th.at the disciples were amazed and afraid (Mk 10'-). But Avith all this pain, they were liopelessly dull on this subject (Lk 18^').
(c) There is strange pathos in the next occasion Jesus had for speaking concerning His death. James and John and their mother (Mt 20=", Mk 10**) seem hardly able to wait for the Master to cease telling about His death before they come and ask for the chief positions in the temporal kingdom for which they^ are still looking. It was a shock to Jesus. Waiving their ignorance. He asked if they could drink His cup of death and take His baptism of blood (Jit 20--, INlk 10-'). They actuall,\' .said that they were able. And James was the lirsl of the Twelve to die a martyr's death, and John the last ; for.J(>ns had said that they woidd have His cup and lia|il i-iii ( Ml^ In"'').
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tell the purjjosc (if His \ ulmitary deatli. AiVpoi' is obviously 'ransom,' but it need not be said that this word exhausts all the content in the death of Christ. Jesus Himself elsewhere sjioke of the vital connexion between Himself .and thc\ believer (Jn lo'f-). This view <if I lie redemplive death „l Christ is further emphasized liv ihe svnil.ul ,,i Baptism and also of the .Siipi.er, m Im.iIi of \\ hieh the vital aspect of mystic union i , e\|iie,s(.d. 'Arn is here u.sed to express the idea of siil.-l il iition, though i;?r^p is more common in lliis sense in the NT (Jn 1P») and in the earlier Cierk il/.- v//v, for instance). It is a ransom instej.l ..i many A distinction needs to be made betu' ' ml I'm