Spurgeon Meditations

 

He answered him to never a word.

Mat 27 14

He had never been slow of speech when He could bless the sons of men but He would not say a single word for Himself. "Never man spake like this Man and never man was silent like Him. Wasthis singular silence the index of His perfect self-sacrifice?Did it show that He would not utter a word to stay the slaughterof His sacred person, which He had dedicated as an offering forus? Had He so entirely surrendered Himself that He would notinterfere in His own behalf, even in the minutest degree, butbe bound and slain an unstruggling, uncomplaining victim? Wasthis silence a type of the defenselessness of sin? Nothingcan be said in palliation or excuse of human guilt; and,therefore, He who bore its whole weight stood speechless beforeHis judge. Is not patient silence the best reply to againsaying world? Calm endurance answers some questionsinfinitely more conclusively than the loftiest eloquence. Thebest apologists for Christianity in the early days were itsmartyrs. The anvil breaks a host of hammers by quietly bearingtheir blows. Did not the silent Lamb of God furnish us with agrand example of wisdom? Where every word was occasion for newblasphemy, it was the line of duty to afford no fuel for theflame of sin. The ambiguous and the false, the unworthy andmean, will ere long overthrow and confute themselves, andtherefore the true can afford to be quiet, and finds silence tobe its wisdom. Evidently our Lord, by His silence, furnished aremarkable fulfillment of prophecy. A long defence of Himselfwould have been contrary to Isaiah's prediction. He is led as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so He openeth not His mouth." By His quiet He conclusively proved Himself to be the true Lamb of God. As such we salute Him this morning. Be with us Jesus and in the silence of our heart let us hear the voice of Thy love.


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