His enemies who sought His life fell before Him at a word; and yet, so did His perfect faith acknowledge God’s perfect care and guardianship, that He could say, “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He shall presently give Me more than twelve legions of angels?” (John 18:5-6; Matthew 26:53). He could, with a touch, heal the ear of the servant, nay, restore it when cut off, when just at the same time He would have His own brows bleed under the crown of thorns (Luke 22:51; Mark 15:17-19). In the perfection of His place, as the emptied One, He would ask for sympathy, and say, “Could ye not watch with Me one hour?” and shortly after, in a moment of still greater gloom, in one sense, He could be above the pity of the daughters of Jerusalem, and honor by the promise of Paradise the faith of a dying malefactor (Matthew 26:40; Luke 23: 28, 42-43). For in brightness He shines, even in the deepest moment of His humiliation: and let sinners know that it is not the compassion of men His cross seeks, but their faith; that it does not ask them in human kindliness to feel that hour, but in faith of their hearts and to the full peace of their consciences to be blessed by that hour; not to pity the cross, but to lean on it, and to know, that though accomplished in weakness, it is the very pillar which is to sustain the creation of God forever.  

The Son of God - J.G. Bellett