Think of that: Christ the Lord, equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, a member of the triune Godhead; one God, in three distinct persons – something we cannot grasp and understand. Here he is: the second person of the Godhead, incarnate, entered into human body and personality, to be our representative and our sin bearer; the one who created all; the one who knows everyone through and through. He knew the life history of everyone who was present in that High Priest's Palace. He knew their every thought. He held them, as it were, in his power and in his hand, and yet he voluntarily allows himself to be taken and arrested and subjected to trial at their hands. The Lord of lords, the Creator of all things, tried by evil sinful men! What Christ went through! After this there will be Calvary, the real punishment, the suffering and death, but in the meantime comes the utter social humiliation of being bound, and in due course thrashed and flogged, and then nailed to a cross. How far would Christ the Lord go in his great love for his people? He loved them from before the foundation of the world. He was determined to save a vast host which no man can number, and to suffer humiliation, and death for them all, and to bear away their eternal weight of punishment. But you see him tried by sinful men. ‘How far would he go’, you ask, ‘for me? What more could he do for me?’ Is there any trial you and I could possibly undergo, that should detach us from our certainty about the love of Christ? The fact that he loves his people with deep, deep affection, with deep, deep feeling and concern, and would go through all this for them? Will he not be with us in every issue of life, should we falter, should faith fail, should we faint? How great is his love for us!