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  1 PETER 2:23
  by John Gill
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Summary: Jesus' patient sufferings demonstrate his trust in God's
justice and provide an example for believers to follow.

Topics: "Trusting God", "Patience in Suffering"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:5, Proverbs 20:22, Isaiah 53:7, Matthew 5:39, Luke 23:34, Romans 12:19, 1 Thessalonians 5:15, Hebrews 10:30, 1 Peter 2:23, 1 Peter 3:9

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John Gill emphasizes the profound example set by Jesus in 1 Peter 2:23,
illustrating how Christ, when reviled and mistreated, chose not to
retaliate but instead responded with patience and grace. He highlights
that Jesus endured false accusations and physical abuse without
threatening or seeking revenge, ultimately committing His cause to God,
the righteous Judge. This act of entrusting Himself to God serves as a
powerful lesson for believers to refrain from retaliation and to leave
their grievances in God's hands, who will judge righteously.

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Ver. 23. Who when he was reviled, reviled not again,.... When he was
reproached as a glutton, a winebibber, a friend of publicans and
sinners, all the reply he made was, that Wisdom is justified of her
children; and when he was charged with casting out devils by Beelzebub,
the prince of devils, he defended himself, not with bad language, but
with strong reasonings; and when he was said to be a Samaritan, and had
a devil, his only answer was, that he had not, that he honoured his
Father, and they dishonoured him; and when he was reviled on the cross,
by those that passed by, by the chief priests, and Scribes, and the
thieves that were crucified with him, he made no return, he opened not
his mouth, and much less in a recriminating way.

When he suffered he threatened not; when he endured buffetings, and
scourgings in his body, when the officers in the palace of the high
priests spit in his face, buffeted him, and smote him with the palms of
their hands, and bid him prophesy who smote him, all which were very
provoking; yet he said not one word to them, much less threatened them
with what he would do to them for such usage another day, when he would
let them know, with vengeance, who it was that smote him; no, he took
all patiently from them, and from Pilate, and the Roman soldiers, when
scourged by them; he gave his back to the smiters, and his cheeks to
them that plucked off the hair; and when he suffered crucifixion, and
was put to such distressing pains and agonies, he did not threaten his
crucifiers with a future judgment, when he would take vengeance, and
execute his wrath upon them, but prays to his Father for the forgiveness
of their sins: and, as it follows;

but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously; he commended
his Spirit, or soul, to God his Father, and committed his cause to him,
to vindicate it in what way he should think fit, who he knew was the
Judge of all the earth, that would do right; and so the Syriac version
supplies it with hynyd, "his judgment": which he left with God, the
righteous Judge, to whom vengeance belongs; and which is an example, and
an instruction to the saints to do so likewise; not to render railing
for railing, or to seek revenge, but to leave their cause with their
God, who will, in his own time, avenge the wrongs and injuries done
them. The Vulgate Latin version reads, contrary to all the Greek copies,
and other versions, "but delivered himself to him that judgeth
unjustly"; the sense of which is, that Christ delivered himself into the
hands of Pilate, who unjustly condemned him to death; but is neither the
reading, nor sense of the text.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/john-gill/1-peter-223/
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