Would you please turn with me in your Bibles to Matthew 27:27-32. We’ll continue our exposition of the gospel of Matthew, especially of this passage dealing with his passion. We Presbyterians don’t often focus upon the physical sufferings of Christ. There is a variety of reasons for that. But it’s important for us to see those sufferings as they are displayed very clearly here by Matthew. Matthew wants us to take account of the reality of those sufferings. There have always been those in the Christian tradition which tended to downplay the bodily suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ, and even some who denied it. And Matthew makes short work of that in this description of what Jesus endured. But more than this, Matthew knows that Jesus’ physical sufferings are a fulfillment of the Old…