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Before we leave this part of our subject we may notice the 

 tremendous contrast between the first component No. (21) 

 with (22) of this triplet of triplications, and the last one No. (25) ; 

 between the sinful fear and failure of Peter and of Pilate in the 

 former, and the absolute sinlessness and majesty of our Lord 

 in the latter. 



The facts connected with the Sacrifice of our Lord Jesus 

 Christ are indeed strongly emphasized by the group of triphca- 

 tions in the Crucifixion section of the Gospel of St. Luke. 



PART XL 

 Memory. 



St. Luke, in his Gospel, sometimes appeals to memory, as, 

 for instance, he is the only Evangehst who records the gracious 

 words of our Lord at the Last Supper, " This do in remembrance 

 of me " (xxii, 19). 



But it is in the Acts that Luke chiefly makes use of remem- 

 brance, and often in a somewhat subtle form, to emphasize the 

 grand events of the Gospel story. 



Single Reminders. 



In the Acts he seldom mentions the word remembrance or 

 any equivalent to it, though he often tells that the apostles 

 and evangehsts preached Christ crucified and risen (ii, 22, 23 ; 

 iv, 2, 10, etc.), and that they sometimes referred to events 

 in our Lord's life, as, for instance, when Peter said that He 

 " went about doing good, and heahng all that were oppressed 

 of the devil " (Acts x, 38). But a special feature of St. Luke's 

 writings in his second book is that he selects for record certain 

 parts of the careers of the first preachers of the Gospel, which 

 strongly bring to the memory of his readers corresponding 

 events in the Life, and especially in the Death, of our Lord. 

 Luke thus emphasizes the Gospel by his record in the Acts. 

 The Rev. R. B. Rackham* has pointed out many of them : 

 we have only space to mention a few. St. Luke states that just 

 before His death our Lord stedfastly set his face to go to 

 Jerusalem " (Luke ix, 51). Some years afterwards Luke records 



* Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, pp. xlvii and 401, KOS. 



