I. "Great are the troubles of the righteous," and who was ever so righteous as Jesus Christ? No wonder His troubles were so great, for we have all contributed something to them! The Lord hath afflicted Him therewith in the day of His fierce anger against our sins. If those troubles were nothing to us, we might well feel compassion for them; as it is, we may well feel compunction for them too.
II. "The Lord delivereth Him out of all." The Pharisees and rulers did not think so; in their great confidence they challenged Him to the fulfilment of this saying, as a crucial test of His pretensions. And as far as this world of common experience is concerned, He was not delivered out of His troubles. How then was He delivered? By death, which hath eternal life for the righteous, was He delivered from all His troubles. The last enemy rescued Him out of the hands of all His other enemies, but the last enemy only received his royal Prisoner in order to become at once His captive and to swell His triumph.
III. Lest we should still feel any doubt as to Jesus Christ being the Righteous spoken of by the Psalmist, he adds, "He keepeth all His bones," etc. St. John notes of Him that the soldiers broke the legs of the others, but not His, and he testified that this happened that the Scripture should be fulfilled. This incident marked the providential character of all that befell our Lord. Even in His death it showed that all the malice of man was being overruled unto Divine ends.
R. Winterbotham, Sermons and Expositions,p. 81.
References: Psalms 34 A. Maclaren, Life of David,pp. 86, 139. Psalms 35:3. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. vii., No. 384; Ibid., Evening by Evening,p. 65.Psalms 35:13. H. Melvill, Penny Pulpit,No. 2086. Psalms 35 J. Hammond, Expositor,1st series, vol. iv., p, 64; Ibid.,2nd series, vol. vii., p. 7. Psalms 36:5; Psalms 36:6. Homiletic Quarterly,vol. i., p. 108.