(15) В¶ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
No doubt Mordecai was humble under all this splendor, and rejoiced more in the people's salvation, than in his own purple. Think, Reader! of thy Jesus, who passed through the streets of Jerusalem, agreeably to the Prophet's account of him ages before, meek and lowly: Zechariah 9:9. with Matthew 21:5-9. Behold him in his purple before Pilate, when he stood as thy Surety! John 19:5. Look at him with an eye of faith, as John saw him, in a vesture dipped in blood. Revelation 19:13.