Had Jesus saved His life from the Cross He might have lived to a ripe old age, making all His years beautiful as the three or four He wrought in such wondrous way among the people. But there would have been no Cross lifted up to draw all men to it by its power of love. There would have been no fountain opened to which earth’s penitent millions could come with their polluted lives to find cleansing. There would have been no atonement for the human guilt, no tasting of death by the Son of God for every man, no bearing by the Lamb of God of the sin of the world. There would have been no broken grave with its victory over death, and eternal life for all who will believe.