“During his ministry our Lord had said and done many things contrary to the notions of the masses of men, and had set up the highest claims to reverence, worship and obedience from men…So great was the importance of the event and such was its connection with all that is vital in religion that our justification and indeed our whole hope of salvation are in Scripture made to depend upon it.” (Rom. 4:25; 1 Pet. 1:3)  William S. Plumer  (1802-1880)