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12 Exclaims "The prince of this world cometh and findeth nothing in me." But this list of sorrow is carried a step beyond this. Divine wrath was the must severe. "It pleased the Lord to bruise him". To this he was exposed not as the Son of God simply but as the substitute of guilty men who had engaged to bear their griefs and carry their sorrows. It was with our sins that God was displeased. Hence Jesus in the garden being in an agony, bodily and mentally, prayed more Earnestly and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood fallling down to the ground. Ah, nothing but the burden of our guilt could have made him prostrate there. Nothing but an appalling sense of Almighty vengeance could have extorted from him the thrice repeated prayer. "Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me." Follow him now through the brief space that brought him