known thee: but I have known | seek me, let these depart." 9 (That the words might be fulfilled, which he spake, "Of those whom thou hast given me, I have lost none.") thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have made known to them thy name, and will make it known: that the love, with which thou hast loved me, may be in them; and I in them." 10 Then Simon Peter, hav. ing a sword, drew it, and struck a servant of the high-priest, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus. 11 Then said Jesus, to CH. XVIII. 1 WHEN Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth, with his disciples, over the brook Kedron, where Peter, "Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? there was a garden, into which he, and his disciples, entered. 2 And Judas, also, who delivered him up, knew the place : for Jesus often resorted thither, with his disciples. 3 Judas then, having received a band of soldiers, and officers from the chief-priests and Pharisees, came thither, with lanterns, and lamps, and weapons. 5 12 THEN the band, and the commander, and the officers of the Jews, took Jesus, and bound him, 13 and led him away, to Annas first; for he was fatherin-law to Caiaphas, who was high-priest that year. 14 Now Caiaphas was he who had given counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. 15 And Simon Peter follow 4 Upon this Jesus, knowing all things which were to befal him,* went forth, and said to them, "Whom seek ye?” They answered him, “Jesus ofed Jesus, and so did another disNazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." And Judas, also, who delivered him up, stood with them. 6 As soon then as he had said to them, 'I am he,' they went backward, and fell on the ground. 7 Then he asked them again, "Whom seek ye?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 8 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he: if therefore ye ciple; and that disciple was known to the high-priest, and entered with Jesus into the palace of the high-priest. 16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then that other disciple, who was known to the highpriest, went out, and spake to her who kept the door; and brought in Peter. 17 Then the maid servant who kept the door said to Peter, * "Nothing more beautifully illustrates the dignity of our Lord's character, than this distinct foreknowledge of every circumstance of his approaching sufferings. This distinguishes Christ from all other martyrs and confessors, and fully accounts for his agony in the garden, and the horror which he often expresses at the prospect of what was to happen. It likewise enhances the moral value of his resignation to the divine will, and exhibits his fortitude in a striking light, after his mind had been tranquillized and fortified by his prayer in the garden. See Heb. v. 7. He was heard, so as to be delivered from his fear." Im. Ver. note. "Art not thou also one of this man's disciples ?" He said, "I am not." 18 And the servants and officers stood and warmed themselves, having made a fire of coals; for it was cold. And Peter stood with them, and warmed himself. 19 Now the high-priest asked Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his doctrine. 20 Jesus answered him, "I spoke openly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort; and in secret I spoke nothing. 21 Why asketh thou me? Ask those that heard me, what I have spoken to them: behold, they know what I said." 22 And when he had said these words, one of the officers, who stood by, struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, and said, "Answerest thou the highpriest thus?" 23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why dost thou smite me?" 24 (Now Annas had sent him bound to Caiaphas the highpriest.) garden with him?” 27 Peter then denied it again; and immediately the cock crew.' 28 [THEN] the Jews brought Jesus from Caiaphas, to the judgment-hall; and it was early: and they themselves went not into the judgment-hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 29 Pilate, therefore, went out to them, and said, "What accusation bring ye against this man?" 30 They answered, and said to him, "If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee." 31 Then Pilate said to them, "Take ye him, and judge him according to your law." The Jews, therefore, said to him, "We are not allowed to put any man to death." + 32 (So that the words of Jesus were fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he was to die.) 33 Then Pilate entered again into the judgment-hall, and called Jesus, and said to him, "Art thou the king of the Jews?"" 34 Jesus answered [him], "Sayest thou this of thyself; or have others told it thee of me?" 35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Thine own nation, and the chief-priests, have delivered thee up to me. What hast thou done ?" 36 Jesus answered, 25 And Simon Peter stood and warmed himself. Then they said to him, "Art not thou also one of his disciples ?" He denied it, and said, "I am not." 26 One of the servants of the" My kingdom is not of this high-priest, being the kinsman of him whose ear Peter cut off, said, "Did not I see thee in the world. If my kingdom had been of this world, then my adherents would have contended, The trumpet sounded at the beginning of the third watch, called the cock-crowing: this was at midnight. Meaning such a death as they wished Jesus to suffer, i. e. crucifixion which was a punishment of the Romans, not of the Jews. But they might have stoned him, as they afterwards stoned Stephen. that I might not be delivered! man." 6 When, therefore, the up to the Jews: but indeed my kingdom is not from hence." 37 Pilate, therefore, said to him, "Art thou a king then?" Jesus answered, "Thou sayest truly; for I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, that I might bear witness to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, hearkeneth to my voice." 38 Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no fault in him. 39 But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one, at the passover will ye, therefore, that I release to you the King of the Jews?" 40 Then all cried out, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a robber. chief-priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, "Crucify, crucify him." Pilate said to them, "Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him." 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself a son of God." 8 When Pilate, therefore, heard these words, he was the more afraid; 9 and went again into the judgment-hall, and said to Jesus, "Whence art thou?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 Pilate, [therefore], said to him, Speakest thou not to me? knowest thou not that I have authority to crucify thee, and have authority to release thee?" 11 Jesus answered, "Thou couldst have no authority against me, unless it had been given thee from above: for this reason, he that deliver sin." 12 Thenceforth, Pilate sought to release him but the Jews cried out, saying, “If thou release this man, thou art not Cæsar's friend. Whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Cæsar." CH. XIX. 1 Then Pilate, upon this, took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And the sol-ed me up to thee hath greater diers platted a crown of thorns,* and put it on his head; and they clothed him with a purple garment, 3 and said, "Hail, King of the Jews." 3 And they struck him with the palms of their hands. 4 Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "See, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him." 5 Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple garment. And Pilate said to them, "See, the 13 When Pilate, therefore, heard these words, he brought Jesus out; and sat down on [the] judgment-seat, in a place which is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha: 14 (Now it was the preparationday of the passover, and about "Most probably of acanthus or bearsfoot; a soft and flexible herb, which grew in abundance in the vicinity of Jerusalem. The design of the Roman soldiers was not so much to torment Jesus, as to insult him, and to deride his pretensions to royalty. Pilate still wished to release him. See ver. 4. Bishop Pearce on Matt. xxvii. 29." Im. Ver. note. the third hour): and he said to the Jews, "See, your king." 15 But they cried out, Away, away with him, crucify him." Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chiefpriests answered, "We have no king but Cæsar." 16 Then, upon this, Pilate delivered him up to them to be crucified. [And they took Jesus, and led him away.] 17 AND he, carrying his cross, went out to a place called The place of skulls; which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha; 18 where they crucified him, and two others with him, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle. 19 And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross: and the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 And many of the Jews read this title; for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city: and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. 21 Upon this, the chiefpriests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Write not, The king of the Jews; but that he said I am king of the Jews."" 22 Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written." 23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his mantle, (and made four parts, to every soldier a part,) and his coat also: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. 24 They said, therefore, among themselves, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be." So that the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, "They divided my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots." These things, therefore, the soldiers did. 25 Now, there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus, therefore, saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, thy son.” 27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, thy mother." And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. 28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, "I thirst." 29 Now a vessel was set there, full of vinegar. And some filled a sponge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and raised it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus, therefore, had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished;" and he bowed his head, and expired. 31 THE Jews, therefore, because it was the day of preparation, that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath, (for that sabbath was a great day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then the soldiers came, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him : 33 but when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was already dead, they brake not his legs: blood and water. came out 34 but one of the soldiers pierc-, removed from the tomb. 2 She ed his side with a spear, and ran, therefore, and came to Siimmediately there mon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved: and said to them, "they have taken away our Master out of the tomb; and we know not where they have laid him." 3 Peter, therefore, went out, and that other disciple; and they came to the tomb. 35 And he who saw these things beareth witness; (and his testimony is true: he even knoweth that he saith truly;) that ye also may believe. 36 For these things were done, so that the scripture was fulfilled, "A bone of it shall not be broken." 37 And again another part of scripture saith, "They shall looked on him whom they pierced." 38 [Now] after this, Joseph of Arimathea (being a disciple of Jesus, but à concealed one for fear of the Jews,) besought Pilate, that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came, therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And Nicodemus also came, (he that at first had come to Jesus by night,) bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about the weight of a hundred pounds. 40 Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen bands with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to embalm. 41 Now, in the place where he was crucified was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 There they laid Jesus, therefore, on account of the preparation-day of the Jews; for the tomb was near. CH. XX. 1 BUT on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb in the morning, when it was yet dark, and saw that the stone had been 4 Now they both ran together: but the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the tomb. 5 And when he had stooped down, to look in, he saw the linen bands lying; but he went not in. 6 Then came Simon Peter, following him ; and he went into the tomb, and saw the linen bands lying; -7 and the napkin, which had been about his head, not lying with the linen bands, but wrapped up, apart in another place. 8 Then went in that other disciple also, who came first to the tomb; and he saw and believed not. 9 For as yet they did not understand by the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went home again. 11 But Mary stood without, at the tomb, weeping; and, as she wept, she stooped down, to look into the tomb; 12 and saw two angels in white, sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 And they said to her, "Woman, why weepest thou?" She said to them, "Because they have taken away my Master, and I know not where they have laid him." |