Lord's supper. 26 And as they were eating, Jesus Institution took bread, and gave thanks to of the God, brake it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take, eat, this is the representation of my body. 27 He took also the cup, and when he had given thanks, gave it to them, 28 saying, "Drink ye all of it, for this is the representation of my blood, that blood which is to be shed for the benefit of all, a seal of the new covenant which relates to the 29 remission of sins. And I say unto you, I shall not drink henceforth of this produce of the vine till that day in which I drink it with you, after a new order of things has arisen in my Father's kingdom." 30 And after using a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. the rest to him. Zech. xiii. 7. 31 Then saith Jesus unto them, Peter and "Ye will all forsake me this very promise to night, as it is written, 'I will smite be faithful the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered abroad.' But after I am raised up, I will go 33 before you into Galilee." Peter said unto him, "Though all others forsake thee, yet will I never for34 sake thee." Jesus said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, This very night, beforethe cock crow, 35 thou wilt deny me thrice." Peter saith unto him, "Though I must even die with thee, I will by no A proverbial way of speaking, not to be strictly interpreted. means deny thee." And so said all CHAP. the disciples. XXVI. sensi Then cometh Jesus to a place 36 called Gethsemane, and saith to Jesus shews his disciples, "Stay here, while I great bility and go and pray yonder." And he resignation. took with him, Peter, and the two 37 sons of Zebedee, and was in an agony of excessive anguish. Then 38 saith he unto them, "My soul is exceedingly dismayed with a deadly sorrow; tarry here and watch with me." And he went forward a 39 little, and fell on his face and prayed, saying, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup be removed from me! nevertheless not my will, but thine be done." And 40 returning to his disciples, and finding them asleep, he saith to Peter, " So, could ye not watch with me such a short time as this! Watch ye and pray that ye may not come to a trial too hard for you. The 41 spirit indeed may be ready, but the flesh is weak." He went away from them a se-42 cond time, and prayed, saying, " 0 my Father, if this cup cannot be removed from me, and I must drink it, thy will be done." And on his 43 return he findeth them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy. And 44 he left them and went away again; and prayed a third time in the same words. Then he cometh to his 45 disciples and saith unto them, "Are ye still asleep, and giving yourselves to rest? behold! the moment is come for the son of man to be delivered up into the hands of the heathen. Arise, let us be gone, 46 behold! he that is going to deliver me up is at hand." While he was yet speaking, lo! 47 The second watch of the night, which was at twelve o'clock, was called the cockcrowing. The third watch, or three o'clock in the morning, was called the second | Luke xxii. 41. cock-crowing, which if we suppose to be here meant, this place is perfectly consistent with Mark xiv. 30. 3 He first kneeled down, and then bent forward with his body to the ground. See 57 And they who had seized Jesus Jesus de- carried him away to Caiaphas, with clares him-whom the scribes and the elders the Mes- were assembled. But Peter followed him at a distance to the palace 58 of the high priest, and went in and sat with the attendants to see the 59 end. Now the chief priests, and self to be siah. 1 Jesus voluntarily, not by force or constraint, gave himself up to his enemies. * Jesus had used these words, but evi the elders, and the whole council, CHAP. sought false testimony against Je- XXVI. sus, to put him to death, but found 60 it not, though many false witnesses came up. At last came up two false 61 witnesses, saying, " This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days." And the high priest rose, and said unto him, "Dost thou make no 62 answer? what is it which these witness against thee?" But he 63 kept silence. And the high priest said unto him, " I require thee to swear by the living God, and tell us whether thou be the Christ, the son of God." Jesus saith unto 64 him, " I am; moreover I say unto you, Hereafter ye will see the son of man sitting on the right hand of divine power, and coming on the clouds of heaven." contempt. Then the high-priest rent his 65 clothes, saying, "He hath spoken He is treatevil against God. What need have ed with we of more witnesses? Behold! ye have now heard his wicked speech. What think ye?" They 66 answered, "He is guilty of a crime worthy of death." Then they 67 spat in his face; and some buffeted him, and others beat him with the palms of their hands, saying, "Tell us, thou prophet Christ, 68 who smote thee?" master Now Peter was sitting at a dis- 69 tance in the hall; and one of the Peter demaid-servants came to him and nies his said, "Thou also wast with Jesus thrice. the Galilean." But he denied it in 70 the presence of them all, saying, "I know not what thou meanest." And after he had gone out into the 71 porch, another maid-servant saw him, and saith unto them that were there, "This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth." And he de-72 nied it again with an oath, saying, dently in a different sense from what was put upon them now. CHAP. "I know not the man." A little XXVII. while after, some, who were stand ing by, came up, and said to Peter, " Surely thou art one of them, and indeed thy speech dis74 covereth thee." Then he began to curse himself, and to swear, saying, " I do not know the man." 75 And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the words of Jesus, who had said unto him, "Before the cock crow, thou wilt deny me thrice." And he went out and wept bitterly. CHAP. Early in the morning, all the XXVIL chief priests and the elders of the Jesus is people consulted about Jesus to put taken be- him to death. And when they had Roman go- bound him, they led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate the governor. fore the vernor. 2 3 Then Judas, who had delivered Remorse him up, when he saw that Jesus and death was condemned, repented, and of Judas. brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the 4 elders, saying, "I have sinned in delivering up innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to 5 us? look thou to that." Then he threw down the pieces of money in the temple, and withdrew, and 6 went and strangled himself. And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It is not lawful to put them into the sacred treasury, because they are 7 the price of blood;" and after consultation upon it, they bought with them the potter's field, to bury 8 strangers in. Wherefore that field hath been called the field of blood 9 to this day. Then was fulfilled this saying of the prophet: "And I took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him who was valued, whom Zech. xi. 13. The trumpet sounded, which announced the second watch, or three o'clock in the morning. • Pilate was a man of a fierce and cruel temper, guilty of many flagrant crimes. After having governed Judea for ten years, XXVII, the children of Israel valued, and CHAP. gave them for the potter's field as the Lord commanded me.” himself sense. And Jesus stood before the go-11 vernor, and the governor asked Jesus calls him, saying, "Art thou the king king of the of the Jews?" Jesus said unto Jews in a him, "I am." And, when he spiritual was accused by the chief priests and elders, he made no answer. Then saith Pilate unto him, 13 "Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?" And he did not answer a single 14 question, so that the governor wondered greatly. release Now during the festival, the 15 governor used to release unto the Pilate multitude one prisoner whom they wishes to would. And they had then a noted Jesus; prisoner named Barabbas. There- 17 fore while they were assembled, Pilate said unto them, " Which do ye wish me to release unto you ? Barabbas, or Jesus that is called Christ?" (Pilate was anxious to release Jesus, because he knew 18 that they had delivered him up through hatred; and because, while 19 he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife had sent unto him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much in a dream this day on account of him.") But 20 the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and leave Jesus to die. 3 Then the governor said to them 21 again, "Which of the two do ye but in comwish me to release unto you?" pliance with And they said, "Barabbas." Pi-the people late saith unto them, " What must delivers I do then with Jesus, called Christ? him up. They all say unto him, "Let him the will of he was deprived of his office, involved in various calamities, and at length died by his own hands, at Vienne in Gaul, the place of his banishment. 3 In the course of the last twenty-four hours. CHAP. becrucified." And the governor said, for them, and sat down there to CHAP. XXXVIL ،، Why, what evil hath he done?" XXVII. guard him. And they placed over But they cried out the more, "Let 27 ed Jesus to be scourged, he deliver- Then two murderers were cruci- 38 fied with him, one on the right He is rehand, and one on the left. And proached those who passed by reviled him, spectators. shaking their heads, and saying, 40 "Thou who canst destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save thyself; if thou be the son of " Likewise the chief priests also, 41 Then the soldiers of the gover-him and said, "He saved others, 42 Jesus is in- nor took Jesus with them into cannot he save himself? If he be sulted and the judgment-hall, and assembled led to death. against him the whole band; and 32 And as they were going out of king of Israel, let him now come Now there was a darkness over 45 66 Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ?" that is, "My God! my God! why hast thou forsaken me?" Then some of those who stood 47 there, when they heard it, said, "He is calling Elijah." And im-48 mediately one of them ran, and come to a place called Golgotha, took a spunge, and put it filled which signifies a place of skulls, with vinegar on a reed, and gave 34 they gave him vinegar mingled him to drink. And others said, 49 with bitters to drink; and when he " Hold! let us see whether had tasted it, he refused to drink. Elijah will come and save him." 50 35 And after they had nailed him to And when Jesus had cried out the cross, they parted his garments again with a loud voice, he examong themselves, by casting lots pired. The guilt of shedding it in case of his potion. * A mixture of vinegar and water, called posca, was the common drink of the Roman • Probably an intoxicating and stupifying soldiers. CHAP. And behold! the vail of the days I shall rise again.' Order, CHAP ed by XXVII. temple was rent in two from the is attended top to the bottom, and the earth and follow-quaked, and the rocks were split ; nishing cir-and the sepulchres were opened, cumstances.and many bodies of holy persons 52 who were asleep awoke, and went out of their graves after they awoke, and were seen by many. Women therefore, that the sepulchre be XXVIII, made safe until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead;' so the last deceit will be worse than the first." Pilate said 65 unto them, " Ye have a * guard : 54 When the centurion, and the sol-go make the sepulchre as safe as 55 diers that were with him guarding Jesus, perceived the earthquake, and what had happened, they were greatly afraid, and said, "Truly this was a son of God." And several women were there, looking on at a distance, who had observe the accompanied Jesus from Galilee, awful scene. and waited upon him; among 56 whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. 57 Now when it was evening, there The body came a rich man of Arimathea, is buried named Joseph, who had been also by Joseph. 58 a disciple of Jesus. This man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus, and Pilate commanded the body to be given him. 59 So Joseph took the body, and wrapt it in a clean linen cloth, and 60a laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he caused to be rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb, 61 and went away. And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary was sitting over against the sepulchre. 62 placed at the sepul On the next day, the day after A guard is the 3 preparation, the chief priests and the scribes came together unto Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remem63 ber that this deceiver said, while he was yet alive, 'Within three chre. • A very extraordinary and excellent person. • Such a man would not have committed the body of Jesus to the sepulchre without plain marks of death. 3 Our F. iday, the preparation-day for the you can." So they went and se- 66 cured the sepulchre, by sealing the stone, and setting a guard. informs the After the end of the Sabbath, as CHAP. the first day of the following week XXVIII. began to dawn, Mary Magdalene, An angel and the other Mary, went to see women of the sepulchre. And lo! there had the resur been a great commotion; for an rection of angel of the Lord had descended Jesus; from heaven, and gone and rolled away the stone from the entrance, and was sitting upon it; and his 3 appearance was like lightning, and his raiment bright as snow. Through fear of him the keepers 4 had been alarmed and become like dead men. And the angel said 5 unto the women, "Be not ye afraid, for I know that ye are seeking Jesus who was crucified. He 6 is not here. He hath been raised up, as he said he should be. Come, see the place where the Lord lay." And make haste to tell his disci-7 ples, that he hath been raised from the dead; and behold! he will go before you into Galilee, there ye shall see him. Lo! I have told you." after see And they went out in haste from 8 the sepulchre with fear and great Who soon joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Jers And as they were going to tell his disciples, behold! Jesus met them and said, "Peace be to you." Sabbath on the following day. Probably the time meant in the text was the evening of Saturday, after the Sabbath. * A body of soldiers assigned to the command of the Jewish rulers, for the purpose of suppressing tumults. |