THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE. Jesus delivered to the Gentiles: AND STRAIGHTWAY IN THE MORNING THE CHIEF PRIESTS HELD A CONSULTATION WITH THE ELDERS AND SCRIBES AND THE WHOLE COUNCIL, AND BOUND JESUS, AND CARRIED HIM AWAY, AND DELIVERED HIM TO PILATE. The account of the events of that memorable Friday mo... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PILATE ASKED HIM, ART THOU THE KING OF THE JEWS? AND HE, ANSWERING, SAID UNTO HIM, THOU SAYEST IT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The hearing before Pilate:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS ACCUSED HIM OF MANY THINGS; BUT HE ANSWERED NOTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PILATE ASKED HIM AGAIN, SAYING, ANSWEREST THOU NOTHING? BEHOLD HOW MANY THINGS THEY WITNESS AGAINST THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS YET ANSWERED NOTHING, SO THAT PILATE MARVELED. The question of Pilate indicated in what form the accusation of the Jewish authorities against Christ had come before him. Since the enemies had no tangible evidence against the Lord, they construed His confession concerning His Messiahship in... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW AT THAT FEAST HE RELEASED UNTO THEM ONE PRISONER, WHOMSOEVER THEY DESIRED.... [ Continue Reading ]
Pilate's attempt to release Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THERE WAS ONE NAMED BARABBAS, WHICH LAY BOUND WITH THEM THAT HAD MADE INSURRECTION WITH HIM, WHO HAD COMMITTED MURDER IN THE INSURRECTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE MULTITUDE CRYING ALOUD BEGAN TO DESIRE HIM TO DO AS HE HAD EVER DONE UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PILATE ANSWERED THEM, SAYING, WILL YE THAT I RELEASE UNTO YOU THE KING OF THE JEWS?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR HE KNEW THAT THE CHIEF PRIESTS HAD DELIVERED HIM FOR ENVY.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS MOVED THE PEOPLE THAT HE SHOULD RATHER RELEASE BARABBAS UNTO THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PILATE ANSWERED AND SAID AGAIN UNTO THEM, WHAT WILL YE, THEN, THAT I SHALL DO UNTO HIM WHOM YE CALL THE KING OF THE JEWS?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CRIED OUT AGAIN, CRUCIFY HIM!... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PILATE SAID UNTO THEM, WHY, WHAT EVIL HATH HE DONE? AND THEY CRIED OUT THE MORE EXCEEDINGLY, CRUCIFY HIM! What a picture the evangelist paints here! The surging mob before the Praetorium, rabble, for the most part, but reinforced by the friends of the Jewish councilors; the weak, vacillating pr... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SO PILATE, WILLING TO CONTENT THE PEOPLE, RELEASED BARABBAS UNTO THEM, AND DELIVERED JESUS, WHEN HE HAD SCOURGED HIM, TO BE CRUCIFIED.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONDEMNATION, CRUCIFIXION, AND DEATH OF JESUS. The sentence and the mockery by the soldiers:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SOLDIERS LED HIM AWAY INTO THE HALL, CALLED PRAETORIUM; AND THEY CALL TOGETHER THE WHOLE BAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CLOTHED HIM WITH PURPLE, AND PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS, AND PUT IT ABOUT HIS HEAD,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BEGAN TO SALUTE HIM, HAIL, KING OF THE JEWS!... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY SMOTE HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A REED, AND DID SPIT UPON HIM, AND, BOWING THEIR KNEES, WORSHIPED HIM. A most significant phrase: Willing, not to do justice, to insist upon the justice for which the Roman courts were known, but: willing to content the people, to give the mob the satisfaction it... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD MOCKED HIM, THEY TOOK OFF THE PURPLE FROM HIM, AND PUT HIS OWN CLOTHES ON HIM, AND LED HIM OUT TO CRUCIFY HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ led to His crucifixion:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY COMPEL ONE SIMON, A CYRENIAN, WHO PASSED BY, COMING OUT OF THE COUNTRY, THE FATHER OF ALEXANDER AND RUFUS, TO BEAR HIS CROSS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY BRING HIM UNTO THE PLACE GOLGOTHA, WHICH IS, BEING INTERPRETED, THE PLACE OF A SKULL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY GAVE HIM TO DRINK WINE MINGLED WITH MYRRH; BUT HE RECEIVED IT NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED HIM, THEY PARTED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS UPON THEM, WHAT EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT WAS THE THIRD HOUR, AND THEY CRUCIFIED HIM. The soldiers soon grew tired of their sport; their victim did not react properly. He bore everything with sublime, majestic fortitude and patience, instead of crying out in pain and anger, as they had anticipated. They therefore took the mantle of m... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SUPERSCRIPTION OF HIS ACCUSATION WAS WRITTEN OVER, THE KING OF THE JEWS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The sufferings of the cross:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WITH HIM THEY CRUCIFY TWO THIEVES, THE ONE ON HIS RIGHT HAND AND THE OTHER ON HIS LEFT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE SCRIPTURE WAS FULFILLED WHICH SAITH, AND HE WAS NUMBERED WITH THE TRANSGRESSORS.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they that passed by railed on Him, wagging their heads and saying, Ah, Thou that destroyest the Temple, and buildest it in three days,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAVE THYSELF, AND COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS!... [ Continue Reading ]
LIKEWISE ALSO THE CHIEF PRIESTS, MOCKING, SAID AMONG THEMSELVES WITH THE SCRIBES, HE SAVED OTHERS; HIMSELF HE CANNOT SAVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET CHRIST, THE KING OF ISRAEL, DESCEND NOW FROM THE CROSS, THAT WE MAY SEE AND BELIEVE. AND THEY THAT WERE CRUCIFIED WITH HIM REVELATION LED HIM. In a spirit which savored of vengeful spite, Pilate had prepared a superscription for the cross of Jesus, stating the cause of His punishment, in much th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE SIXTH HOUR WAS COME, THERE WAS DARKNESS OVER THE WHOLE LAND UNTIL THE NINTH HOUR.... [ Continue Reading ]
The last hours and the death of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AT THE NINTH HOUR JESUS CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? WHICH IS, BEING INTERPRETED, MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SOME OF THEM THAT STOOD BY, WHEN THEY HEARD IT, SAID, BEHOLD, HE CALLETH ELIAS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ONE RAN AND FILLED A SPONGE FULL OF VINEGAR, AND PUT IT ON A REED, AND GAVE HIM TO DRINK, SAYING, LET ALONE; LET US SEE WHETHER ELIAS WILL COME TO TAKE HIM DOWN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST. Meanwhile it had become high noon. Suddenly, without warning, darkness came upon the whole earth, not the darkness of a solar eclipse, for it was now the time of the full moon, nor of dense clouds, nor of a desert wind-storm. The sun was blot... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS RENT IN TWAIN FROM THE TOP TO THE BOTTOM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BURIAL OF JESUS. Immediate effects of Christ's death:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THE CENTURION, WHICH STOOD OVER AGAINST HIM, SAW THAT HE SO CRIED OUT AND GAVE UP THE GHOST, HE SAID, TRULY, THIS MAN WAS THE SON OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE WERE ALSO WOMEN LOOKING ON AFAR OFF; AMONG WHOM WAS MARY MAGDALENE, AND MARY, THE MOTHER OF JAMES THE LESS AND OF JOSES, AND SALOME;... [ Continue Reading ]
(WHO ALSO, WHEN HE WAS IN GALILEE, FOLLOWED HIM, AND MINISTERED UNTO HIM;) AND MANY OTHER WOMEN WHICH CAME UP WITH HIM UNTO JERUSALEM. As a great sign had accompanied Christ's deepest suffering, so nature now signified its horror, at God's command, over the blasphemous deed which had been done on Ca... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW WHEN THE EVEN WAS COME, BECAUSE IT WAS THE PREPARATION, THAT IS, HE DAY BEFORE THE SABBATH,... [ Continue Reading ]
The burial of Jesus:... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA, AN HONORABLE COUNCILOR, WHICH ALSO WAITED FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD, CAME, AND WENT IN BOLDLY UNTO PILATE, AND CRAVED THE BODY OF JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PILATE MARVELED IF HE WERE ALREADY DEAD; AND CALLING UNTO HIM THE CENTURION, HE ASKED HIM WHETHER HE HAD BEEN ANY WHILE DEAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE KNEW IT OF THE CENTURION, HE GAVE THE BODY TO JOSEPH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE BOUGHT FINE LINEN, AND TOOK HIM DOWN, AND WRAPPED HIM IN THE LINEN, AND LAID HIM IN A SEPULCHER WHICH WAS HEWN OUT OF A ROCK, AND ROLLED A STONE UNTO THE DOOR OF THE SEPULCHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MARY MAGDALENE AND MARY, THE MOTHER OF JOSES, BEHELD WHERE HE WAS LAID. Although this day on which Jesus died, was a great festival day, on which the Jews also offered a second _ chagigah,_ or offering, combined with a meal, yet the following day, the Sabbath, was considered still more sacred. W... [ Continue Reading ]