Question

I need help someone to help me find the appropriate response to Jesus being high priest by reading an expert from the Pilgrim's Progress

Answer 1

Now, I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended this talk, they drew nigh to a very miry
slough, that was in the midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall suddenly
into the bog. The name of the slough was Despond. Here, therefore, they wallowed for a
time, being grievously bedaubed with the dirt; and Christian, because of the burden that
was on his back, began to sink into the mire.
PLI. Then said Pliable, “Ah, neighbor Christian, where are you now?”
CHRIS. “Truly,” said Christian, “I do not know.”
PLI. At this Pliable began to be offended, and angrily said to his fellow, “It this the happiness
you have told me all this while of? If we have such ill speed at our first setting out,
what may we expect between this and our journey’s end? May I get out again with my life,
you shall possess the brave country alone for me.” And with that, he gave a desperate struggle
or two, and got out of the mire on that side of the slough which was next to his own
house; so away he went, and Christian saw him no more.

Wherefore Christian was left to tumble in the Slough of Despond alone; but still he
endeavored to struggle to that side of the slough which was farthest from his own house,
and next to the wicket gate; the which he did, but could not get out because of the burden
that was upon his back; but I beheld in my dream, that a man came to him whose name was
Help, and asked him what he did there.
CHRIS. “Sir,” said Christian, “I was bid to go this way by a man called Evangelist, who
directed me also to yonder gate, that I might escape the wrath to come; and as I was going
there, I fell in here.”
HELP. But why did you not look for the steps?
CHRIS. Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way, and fell in.
HELP. Then said he, “Give me thine hand.” So he gave him his hand, and he drew him out
[Psalm 40:2], and set him upon sound ground, and bid him go on his way.
Then I stepped to him that plucked him out and said, “Sir, wherefore, since over this place
is the way from the City of Destruction to yonder gate, is it that this plat is not mended,
that poor travelers might go thither with more security?” And he said unto me, “This miry
slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth
that attend conviction for sin do continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of
Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened by his lost condition, there arise in his soul
many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together,
and settle in this place; and this is the reason of the badness of the ground.
“It is not the pleasure of the King that this place should remain so bad [Isaiah 35:3, 4]. His
laborers also have, by the direction of His Majesty’s surveyors, been for about these sixteen
hundred years employed about this patch of ground, if perhaps it might have been mended;
yea, and to my knowledge,” said he, “here have been swallowed up at least twenty thousand
cartloads, yea, millions, of wholesome instructions, that have at all seasons been brought
from all places of the King’s dominions (and they that can tell say they are the best materials
to make good ground of the place), if so be it might have been mended; but it is the
Slough of Despond still, and so will be when they have done what they can.
“True, there are, by the direction of the Lawgiver, certain good and substantial steps, placed
even through the very midst of this slough; but at such time as this place doth much spew out
its filth, as it doth against change of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or, if they be, men,
through the dizziness of their heads, step aside, and then they are bemired to purposed, notwithstanding
the steps be there; but the ground is good when they are got in at the gate.”
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Now, I saw in my dream that the highway up which Christian was to go was fenced on
either side with a wall that was called Salvation [Isaiah 26:1]. Up this way, therefore, did
burdened Christian run, but not without great difficulty, because of the load on his back.
He ran thus till he came to a place somewhat ascending; and upon that place stood a cross,
and a little below, in the bottom, a sepulchre. So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian
came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back,
and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre,
where it fell in, and I saw it no more.

Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said with a merry heart, “He hath given me
rest by His sorrow, and life by His Death.” Then he stood still awhile to look and wonder;
for it was very surprising to him that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his burden.
He looked, therefore, and looked again, even till the springs that were in his head sent
the water down his cheeks [Zechariah 12:10]. Now, as he stood looking and weeping,
behold, three Shining Ones came to him, and saluted him with “Peace be to thee.” So the
first said to him, “Thy sins be forgiven thee” [Mark 2:5]; the second stripped him of his rags,
and clothed him with a change of raiment [Zechariah 3:4]; the third also set a mark on his
forehead [Ephesians 1:13], and gave him a roll with a seal upon it, which he bade him look
on as he ran, and that he should give it in at the celestial gate: so they went their way.
Then Christian gave three leaps for joy, and went on, singing:
Thus far did I come laden with my sin;
Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in,
Till I came hither: what a place is this!
Must here be the beginning of my bliss?
Must here the burden fall from off my back?
Must here the strings that bound it to me crack?
Blest cross! blest sepulchre! blest rather be
The Man that was there put to shame for me!

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