Both Gentile and Jew joined hands to crucify the Savior and thus cut themselves off from mercy on every ground save God's boundless grace.
Then and there it is that God commends His love unto us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Oh, how foolish to fancy that He wants the sinner to commend himself to God by doing some good or great thing and to forget that it is He who in His Son has wrought the only, the best and the greatest thing that even He could, in that all-sufficient sacrifice for him that believes! When this is received, the heart that was proudest and darkest does not fail to love. [23]