Where Did Jesus Die? — Page 6
? 6 he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? 1 Now, if even Jesus’ own prayer, uttered in agony with such ear- nestness and sincerity, and concerning so important a matter as his threatened death by crucifixion was disregarded, his injunc- tions to his disciples that they should pray for what they required and his statement that their prayers will be answered would seem to have little meaning. We have no option, therefore, but to believe that God did hear his prayer and thus saved him from the ‘accursed’ death. 2. Concerning the acceptance of his prayer, the following texts from the Psalms may be quoted: For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. . . But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me. . . For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither hath he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard. 2 Also in Psalm 34 we read: Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord 1. Matthew 7:9–10 2. Psalms 22:16–24