Exodus 34:4-35; Psalms 85:1-86:17; Acts 20:17-38
He was oppressed, and…afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. Isaiah 53:7
Someone has well said of Isaiah 53 that, “It looks as if it had been written beneath the cross of Golgotha”. There, as the lonely Lamb led to the slaughter, He hangs upon the tree. There are no pitying eyes upon Him. His sealed lips which had spoken so eloquently before Pilate, Herod and the jeering multitudes are quiet now. The only word He speaks are not against His tormentors but on our behalf, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). How can our lips be sealed this Lord’s Day, as we gaze upon the silent Sufferer? —Jim Comte
The Lamb of God to slaughter led, the King of Glory see!
The crown of thorns upon His head, they nail Him to the tree!—R. Chapman