and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. 51 And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck da servant of the d the chief officer, the foreman of them that had the high priest's, and warrant to apprehend him, and smote— smote off his ear. 52 Then said Je sus unto him, Put Do nothing contrary to law, for all that draw and up again thy sword use the sword without authority from those which into his place for bear the sword shall fall themselves by it, incur the all they that take the sword shall perish punishment of death. with the sword. 53 Thinkest thou 53. If I would forcibly be relieved I could have a that I cannot now full army, or host of angels, consisting, as among the pray to my Father, and he shall preRomans, of twelve legions. sently give me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then 54. But the prophets have foretold I must suffer, shall the scriptures and their predictions must be accomplished. be fulfilled, that thus it must be? 55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as a as against a malefactor, with a band of soldiers to gainst a thief with apprehend me? see ver. 47. swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. 56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. fled. Then all the disci- 8 The next thing done was, that upon Christ's speakples forsook him, and ing to have the disciples let go they were permitted, John xviii. 8, and all of them having that liberty 57 And they that had laid hold on Jet departed from him, and that with so much terror, that one in the company, being a young person, ran Caiaphas the high away perfectly naked, Mark xiv. 5. sus led him away to HAMMOND, VOL. 1. 7 At that time, or instant, év ékeivy tŷ öpq. K priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. 58 But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. h the sanhedrim was assembled. i into the outer room, where the servants used to remain, to see what the issue of the matter would be. 59 Now the chief 59. Now the sanhedrim used all diligence to get priests, and elders, any false testimony against him that were capital. and all the council, sought [h] false wit ness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60 But found none: 60. But none that came was of any force, because yea, though many they were all but indeed single witnesses. false witnesses came, last yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61 And said, This At the 61. And misreported a speech of his related truly, fellow said, I am John ii. 19, saying, This fellow able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. 62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him,Answerest k Hast thou no answer to make to these accusations thou nothing? what thus testified by two witnesses? is it which these wit ness against thee? high priest answer 1 1 spake again unto him, saying, I lay an oath upon ed and said unto him, thee, and by that which is most sacred require thee I [i] adjure thee by the living God, that to speak and say freely whether thou art the Messias, thou tell us whether whom we know to be the Son of God. thou be the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus saith unto him, m Thou An hast m As low as I am, I am he. But I tell you, within said: nevertheless I a little while you shall discern this Son of man, whom say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the you are now ready to crucify as man, assumed into Son of man sitting his throne, installed in his heavenly kingdom. on the right hand of effect of which shall be most visible in his acting [k] power, and comvengeance upon you, and that as discernibly as if he were coming with his angels, who use to appear in 65 Then the high bright clouds. ing in the clouds of heaven. priest [] rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of wit nesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy. 66 What think ye? 66. .What is the vote or sentence of the council They answered and concerning him? They answered, He is guilty of a said, He is guilty of fault which is punishable with death. death. 67 Then did they 67. Then did some of the officers of their court spit in his face, and spit in his face, and buffet him, and blindfold him, buffeted him; and Luke xxii. 64, and then gave him blows on the face, others 8 [m] smote him with the palms of their hands, 68 Saying, Pro- 68. Saying, Thou who by thy title of Christ prephesy unto us, thou tendest to unction prophetical, make use of it for Christ, Who is he thyself, and by it tell us who it is that smites thee, that smote thee? n wert a prime companion or disciple of (see Mark with Jesus of Gali- iii. 14.) Jesus of Galilee. lee. 70 But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest. 71 And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth. 72 And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man. 73 And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of • I am not guilty of what thou layest to my charge. P saying, I have no relation to him. athy dialect or tone, peculiar to those of Galilee them; for thy speech from the rest of the Jews, betrayeth thee to be a bewrayeth thee. 74 Then began he 'to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. 75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said Galilean and follower of his. to lay imprecations on himself, and to swear Before the second cock-crowing, which is in the unto him, Before middle watch, between midnight and morning: see the cock crow, thou note on Mark xiii. 35. 8 cudgelled him. shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly. WHEN the morn 1. And having retired for a while, the whole sanheing was come, all drim, consisting of chief priests and rulers of the the chief priests and elders of the people people, &c., met together in council, and there detook counsel against creed that he was to be put to death, and accordingly Jesus to put him to that they would press the Roman procurator to do justice on him capitally. death: 2 And when they 2. And accordingly, as one pre-condemned by them, led him away, and they bound him, and led— had bound him, they delivered him to Pontius Pilate the go vernor. 3 ན། Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was a condemned, a cast by the Jews' sanhedrim, wished that he had not done it, and was exceedingly grieved and afflicted himself, and brought in mind, and brought— again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have b I have committed a foul sin, in delivering up into sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to 5 And he cast down your hands a most innocent person to be put to death. 5. And when they would not receive the money, us? see thou to that. he would not carry it back again, but threw it down the pieces of silver as a detestable thing that he was resolved to rid his in the temple, and hands of, and leaving it in the temple, departed to 1 departed, and went his home; and was there so affected with sorrow, and and [a] hanged him- horror, and despair, that in a fit of melancholy or 6 And the chief suffocation he suddenly fell down upon his face, and priests took the sil- burst, and died, Acts i. 18. self. ver pieces, and said, 6. And they of the sanhedrim, ver. 3, seeing the It is not lawful for to money thus left in the temple, had some thoughts of put them into the putting it into the treasury of the temple, but contreasury, because it is the [b] price of sidering that it was money given for the delivering one up to death, they conceived it not holy blood. 7 And they took enough to be put in there. counsel, and bought 7. And upon consultation they decreed and resolvwith them the pot- ed in council, that the money (which they in this ter's field, to bury [c] strangers in. hurry did not neglect the disposing of) should be 8 Wherefore that laid out for a pious use, to buy a piece of ground, called, which had been the potters', for strangers to bury field was The field of blood, their dead in. unto this day. 9 Then was fulfil 8. This field was by the people, for all the hypocrisy led that which was of the sanhedrim, called 1 departing was strangled, or fell into a fit of suffocation. spoken by Jeremy first by Jeremiah in some prophecy of his not the prophet, saying, now remaining, but by tradition famed to be delivered And they took the thirty pieces of silver, by him, and from those which heard it from Jeremy, the price of him that received, and after repeated by Zachary, ch. xi. 12, was valued, whom (as many other things of Jeremy's are, which makes they of the children the Jews say that the spirit of Jeremy rested on of Israel did value; Zachary,) which is the reason that it is here cited as for the potter's field, Jeremy's and not as Zachary's. (See note [a] on as the Lord appoint- Heb. viii.) 10 And gave them ed me. II And Jesus stood 11. And Jesus was brought to the bar and exbefore the governor : amined, whether he were the Messias so long exand the governor pected by that people, and he answered, Yes, I asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. 12 And when he am. 12. And to all the accusations sent in against him was accused of the by the sanhedrim, whether by a written bill of theirs chief priests and elders, he answered or by some attorney instructed by them, (themselves coming not in, John xviii. 28,) he made no kind of nothing. 13 Then said Pilate reply. unto him, Hearest Dost thou not think fit to make apology for thythou not how many self, hearing what charges are sent in by the sanhethings they witness drim, and those sufficiently testified against thee? against thee? 14 And he answer- 14. All this would not move Christ to make any ed him to never a apology or plea for himself, at which Pilate extremely word; insomuch that wondered. the governor mar velled greatly. 15 Now at that 15. Now this being the time of the yearly passover, feast the governor a solemn feast of the Jews, it was customary with the was [d] wont to release unto the people procurator to gratify the Jews by pardoning some a prisoner, whom prisoner of that nation, and that it might be the they would. greater obligation to them, to give them liberty to 16 And they had choose whom they pleased by votes of the people. then a notable prisoner, called Barab bas. 17 Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release which by many is taken to be the Messias? 18. That which moved him to make this proposal, unto you? Barabbas, was because he knew it was matter of malice in some or Jesus which is great persons among them (wherein the multitude of called Christ? the people were not concerned) that Christ was thus that for envy they persecuted, and so that the multitude might probably had delivered him. be pleased to have him released. 18 For he knew 2 I took, λaßov. |