Spectators of a wonder

In the run up to Good Friday I wany to post some of my favourite quotes about the death of Christ.

The cross is,

'The most solemn spectale in all history, a spectacle unparalleled, unique, unrepeated and unrepeatable. The site of the most mysterious utterance that ever ascended from earth to heaven, "My God, my God why has thou forsaken me?" Beholding it, we are spectators of a wonder the praise and glory of which eternity will not exhaust. It is the Lord of glory, the Son of God incarnate, the God-man, drinking the cup given him by the eternal Father, the cup of woe and indescribable agony. We almost hesitate to say so. But it must be said. It is God in our nature forsaken of God. The cry from the accursed tree evinces nothing less than the abandonment that is the wages of sin...There is no reproduction or parallel in the experience of archangels or of the greatest saints. The faintest parallel would crush the holiest of men and the mightiest of the angelic host.'

John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied pg. 77-78