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Christ to Pilate: Thou couldst have no power at all against me. Except it were given thee from above. = He could not, for to die He came into the world. = Beware of false premises in regard to X. Specific: His humanity does not preclude His divinity His love does not preclude His judgement.

IV It was a mockery that asked for an additional and unreasonable test of divine power in order to believe on Him. "Let Him now come down from the Cross &c" = Additional, They had already Every possible Ev, unclear and Lazarus. Unreasonable, The very thing that God could not do. X's death upon the Cross was Gods Sign, fortold in prophecy, that He was the Saviour of men, which they should have apprehended.