It was a wonder for God in His love to humble Himself and come down to man in the Person of His Son become a man. It was a wonder infinite that a man who was God incarnate died as a sacrifice for sinners on the cross. He now is raised from the dead and received up in glory, exalted to give repentance and remission of sins, not to Israel only, but to any poor sinner who believes in Him to the ends of the earth.
Both Jews and Gentiles joined in rejecting God's Son, the Messiah, who could and would have shed nothing but light and good to God's glory. When all hope naturally was buried in His grave, God raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, and not this only, but He causes grace to appear in deeper and larger ways than ever before by the gospel.
Thus did the kindness of God and His love toward man appear. It is matchless, full of comfort, deliverance and blessing to every soul believing in Christ. [18]