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17I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.

Psalms 22:17

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

  • His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

  • And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, …

  • And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

  • As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-21)

In these verses we have Christ suffering and Christ praying, by which we are directed to look for crosses and to look up to God under them. I. Here is Christ suffering. David indeed was often in trouble, and beset with enemies; but many of the particulars here specified are such as were never true of David, and therefore must be appropriated to Christ in the depth of his humiliation. 1. He is here…

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