living unto God? Let us then endeavour to approve ourselves to our all-seeing and ever-adorable Saviour. Let us guard against entertaining uncharitable thoughts either of those who fall short of us, or those who go beyond us, in acts of love to him. We all have our different views, different tempers, dif- ferent tastes. Both Martha and Mary sought to honour him ; the one in laborious service, the other in pious adoration ; and both were accepted in what they did. Let us then " do ivhat we can;" and strive to honour him in the way best suited to our capacities and talents : and, as he has poured out his soul unto death for us," let us be ready at all times to sacrifice for him our name, our property, our life.]
Mark xiv. 17 — 19. And in the evening he cometh with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me. And, they began to be sorroivful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?
EVERY particular relative to the sufferings of our blessed Lord was the subject of prophecy. The Psalmist, in different parts of his inspired compo- sitions, specifies many minute occurrences which should take place at the time of our Saviour's death. In some of his expressions, the primary reference is to himself ; in others, he refers to the Messiah alone. The passage to which there is an allusion in our text is of the former kind. It evidently is applicable, in the first instance, to David, whose life was sought by his friend Ahithophela. But, inasmuch as David was an eminent type of Christ, as Ahithophel was of Judas, the passage is declared, by our blessed Lord himself, to have been a prediction of the event which was just about to be accomplished in the traitor Judas. Whilst all the Disciples were with their Lord, celebrating the Passover, Jesus declared to them what was about to take place ; that one of them, even one of his twelve Apostles, who were with him, would betray him. This declaration filled them all with astonishment
a Ps. xli. 9. with 2 Sam. xvi. 23.