Matthew 26:1,2
EVENTS PRECEDING THE LAST PASSOVER. Final prediction of the Passion:... [ Continue Reading ]
EVENTS PRECEDING THE LAST PASSOVER. Final prediction of the Passion:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS WHEN JESUS HAD FINISHED ALL THESE SAYINGS, HE SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES,... [ Continue Reading ]
YE KNOW THAT AFTER TWO DAYS IS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER, AND THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED TO BE CRUCIFIED. Jesus had begun His last great discourse to His disciples immediately after leaving the Temple, chapter 24:2, and had continued it on Mount Olivet and also on the way to His lodging-place in Bet... [ Continue Reading ]
Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,... [ Continue Reading ]
The conspiracy:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CONSULTED THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE JESUS BY SUBTLETY AND KILL HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THEY SAID, NOT ON THE FEAST-DAY, LEST THERE BE AN UPROAR AMONG THE PEOPLE. Matthew purposely places the two events side by side: Jesus, out in Bethany, solemnly declaring that He is being delivered to be crucified; the chief priests together with the chief council of the Jews, the Sanhedrin, mee... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW, WHEN JESUS WAS IN BETHANY, IN THE HOUSE OF SIMON THE LEPER,... [ Continue Reading ]
The anointing in Bethany:... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE CAME UNTO HIM A WOMAN HAVING AN ALABASTER BOX OF VERY PRECIOUS OINTMENT, AND POURED IT ON HIS HEAD AS HE SAT AT MEAT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN HIS DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY HAD INDIGNATION, SAYING, TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE?... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS OINTMENT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR MUCH AND GIVEN TO THE POOR. In order to complete his narrative, Matthew here relates a happening of the previous Saturday, John 12:1. When Christ came up to Bethany from Jericho, He took dinner with one Simon, otherwise unknown, who had formerly been a lepe... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN JESUS UNDERSTOOD IT, HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHY TROUBLE YE THE WOMAN? FOR SHE HATH WROUGHT A GOOD WORK UPON ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
Christ's defense of the woman:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR YE HAVE THE POOR ALWAYS WITH YOU; BUT ME YE HAVE NOT ALWAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IN THAT SHE HATH POURED THIS OINTMENT ON MY BODY SHE DID IT FOR MY BURIAL.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, WHERESOEVER THIS GOSPEL SHALL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD, THERE SHALL ALSO THIS, THAT THIS WOMAN HATH DONE, BE TOLD FOR A MEMORIAL OF HER. Whether these remarks were made in a subdued tone of voice so as to be inaudible to Christ, or whether He was so engrossed with His th... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ONE OF THE TWELVE, CALLED JUDAS ISCARIOT, WENT UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS,... [ Continue Reading ]
Judas offers to betray Christ:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHAT WILL YE GIVE ME, AND I WILL DELIVER HIM UNTO YOU? AND THEY COVENANTED WITH HIM FOR THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FROM THAT TIME HE SOUGHT OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY HIM. There is a world of significance in the expression "one of the Twelve. " One of those whom Jesus chose out of the larger circle of His disciples; one of those whom He had with Him for three years, in the intimacy of the communion which obtains... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS, SAYING UNTO HIM, WHERE WILT THOU THAT WE PREPARE FOR THEE TO EAT THE PASSOVER?... [ Continue Reading ]
Arrangements for the Passover meal:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, GO INTO THE CITY TO SUCH A MAN AND SAY UNTO HIM, THE MASTER SAITH, MY TIME IS AT HAND; I WILL KEEP THE PASSOVER AT THY HOUSE WITH MY DISCIPLES.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE DISCIPLES DID AS JESUS HAD APPOINTED THEM; AND THEY MADE READY THE PASSOVER. The Passover was also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Luke 22:1, and since all leaven was removed from the homes of the Jews on the afternoon of the 14 th of Nisan, in preparation for the Passover sacrific... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN THE EVEN WAS COME, HE SAT DOWN WITH THE TWELVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PASSOVER MEAL AND THE INSTITUTION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. The traitor in their midst:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY DID EAT, HE SAID, VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU THAT ONE OF YOU SHALL BETRAY ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY WERE EXCEEDING SORROWFUL, AND BEGAN EVERY ONE OF THEM TO SAY UNTO HIM, LORD, IS IT I?... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID, HE THAT DIPPETH HIS HAND WITH ME IN THE DISH, THE SAME SHALL BETRAY ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF MAN GOETH AS IT IS WRITTEN OF HIM; BUT WOE UNTO THAT MAN BY WHOM THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED! IT HAD BEEN GOOD FOR THAT MAN IF HE HAD NOT BEEN BORN.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN JUDAS, WHICH BETRAYED HIM, ANSWERED AND SAID, MASTER, IS IT I? HE SAID UNTO HIM, THOU HAST SAID. By sundown all the lambs that had been presented in the Temple-courts had been slain, and throughout the city of Jerusalem the little bands of ten to twenty Jews gathered about the commemorative mea... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THEY WERE EATING, JESUS TOOK BREAD, AND BLESSED IT, AND BRAKE IT, AND GAVE IT TO THE DISCIPLES, AND SAID, TAKE, EAT; THIS IS MY BODY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The institution of the Lord's Supper:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK THE CUP, AND GAVE THANKS, AND GAVE IT TO THEM, SAYING, DRINK YE ALL OF IT;... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK HENCEFORTH OF THIS FRUIT OF THE VINE UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM. The sacrament of the Old Covenant had just been celebrated by Christ, for He did not come to change the essence of the old faith, which is the same for all ti... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD SUNG AN HYMN, THEY WENT OUT INTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVENTS AT GETHSEMANE. The prophecy of the denial:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAITH JESUS UNTO THEM, ALL YE SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF ME THIS NIGHT; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, I WILL SMITE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED ABROAD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AFTER I AM RISEN AGAIN, I WILL GO BEFORE YOU INTO GALILEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
PETER ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, THOUGH ALL MEN SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF THEE, YET WILL I NEVER BE OFFENDED.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, VERILY I SAY UNTO THEE, THAT THIS NIGHT, BEFORE THE COCK CROW, THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE.... [ Continue Reading ]
PETER SAID UNTO HIM, THOUGH I SHOULD DIE WITH THEE, YET WILL I NOT DENY THEE. LIKEWISE ALSO SAID ALL THE DISCIPLES. The concluding section of the great Hallel was sung after the close of the paschal meal, a solemn thanksgiving to God for all His gifts of goodness and mercy. Then Jesus led the way ou... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN COMETH JESUS WITH THEM UNTO A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE, AND SAITH UNTO THE DISCIPLES, SIT YE HERE WHILE I GO AND PRAY YONDER.... [ Continue Reading ]
The arrival at Gethsemane:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK WITH HIM PETER AND THE TWO SONS OF ZEBEDEE, AND BEGAN TO BE SORROWFUL AND VERY HEAVY.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAITH HE UNTO THEM, MY SOUL IS EXCEEDING SORROWFUL, EVEN UNTO DEATH; TARRY YE HERE AND WATCH WITH ME. Gethsemane, valley of the oil-press, was a small country-place with a large garden of olive-trees, well known also to Judas, because it was a favorite haven of seclusion of the Lord. With a ful... [ Continue Reading ]
The first prayer:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE WENT A LITTLE FARTHER, AND FELL ON HIS FACE, AND PRAYED, SAYING, O MY FATHER, IF IT BE POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME; NEVERTHELESS NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS THOU WILT.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMETH UNTO THE DISCIPLES, AND FINDETH THEM ASLEEP, AND SAITH UNTO PETER, WHAT, COULD YE NOT WATCH WITH ME ONE HOUR?... [ Continue Reading ]
WATCH AND PRAY, THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION; THE SPIRIT INDEED IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK. Leaving even His favorite disciples, though near the place where He was going, He felt constrained to be all alone with the horrors of death and hell, with the realization of the unquenchable wrat... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WENT AWAY AGAIN THE SECOND TIME AND PRAYED, SAYING, O MY FATHER, IF THIS CUP MAY NOT PASS AWAY FROM ME EXCEPT I DRINK IT, THY WILL BE DONE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The continuation of the agony:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE CAME AND FOUND THEM ASLEEP AGAIN; FOR THEIR EYES WERE HEAVY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE LEFT THEM, AND WENT AWAY AGAIN, AND PRAYED THE THIRD TIME, SAYING THE SAME WORDS. The Holy One of God was here almost submerged in the flood of grief and bitterness which threatened to engulf Him. Fearfulness and trembling had come upon Him, and horror had overwhelmed Him, Psalms 55:5, the ho... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN COMETH HE TO HIS DISCIPLES AND SAITH UNTO THEM, SLEEP ON NOW AND TAKE YOUR REST; BEHOLD, THE HOUR IS AT HAND, AND THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF SINNERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The end of the struggle:... [ Continue Reading ]
RISE, LET US BE GOING; BEHOLD, HE IS AT HAND THAT DOTH BETRAY ME. Without respite, without aid had His harassed soul wrestled with death and hell. And His body was wearied to the point of utter exhaustion. Dragging Himself back finally to His sleeping disciples, He tells them, not in irony or with... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHILE HE YET SPAKE, LO, JUDAS, ONE OF THE TWELVE, CAME, AND WITH HIM A GREAT MULTITUDE WITH SWORDS AND STAVES, FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST. The coming of the traitor:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW HE THAT BETRAYED HIM GAVE THEM A SIGN, SAYING, WHOMSOEVER I SHALL KISS, THAT SAME IS HE; HOLD HIM FAST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FORTHWITH HE CAME TO JESUS AND SAID, HAIL, MASTER; AND KISSED HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, FRIEND, WHEREFORE ART THOU COME? THEN CAME THEY, AND LAID HANDS ON JESUS, AND TOOK HIM. While Jesus was still urging His disciples to shake off the drowsiness to which they had given way, Judas came. One of the Twelve he is called, to heighten the effect of the contrast: A c... [ Continue Reading ]
AND, BEHOLD, ONE OF THEM WHICH WERE WITH JESUS STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND, AND DREW HIS SWORD, AND STRUCK A SERVANT OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S, AND SMOTE OFF HIS EAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
Resistance offered by Peter:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIM, PUT UP AGAIN THY SWORD INTO HIS PLACE; FOR ALL THEY THAT TAKE THE SWORD SHALL PERISH WITH THE SWORD.... [ Continue Reading ]
THINKEST THOU THAT I CANNOT NOW PRAY TO MY FATHER, AND HE SHALL PRESENTLY GIVE ME MORE THAN TWELVE LEGIONS OF ANGELS?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HOW THEN SHALL THE SCRIPTURES BE FULFILLED, THAT THUS IT MUST BE? Due to a misunderstanding of Christ's words concerning the necessity of being effectively prepared against all enemies, Luke 22:36, the disciples had provided two swords. In the excitement of the moment, a carnal anger which can v... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THAT SAME HOUR SAID JESUS TO THE MULTITUDES, ARE YE COME OUT AS AGAINST A THIEF WITH SWORDS AND STAVES FOR TO TAKE ME? I SAT DAILY WITH YOU TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, AND YE LAID NO HOLD ON ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reproving the enemies:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ALL THIS WAS DONE THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF THE PROPHETS MIGHT BE FULFILLED. THEN ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM AND FLED. Christ's point is well taken, especially since He addressed these words chiefly to the rulers and to the guards of the Temple. Their manner of apprehending Him was an insult to... [ Continue Reading ]
THE TRIAL BEFORE CAIAPHAS AND THE DENIAL OF PETER. To the house of Caiaphas:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY THAT HAD LAID HOLD ON JESUS LED HIM AWAY TO CAIAPHAS, THE HIGH PRIEST, WHERE THE SCRIBES AND THE ELDERS WERE ASSEMBLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PETER FOLLOWED HIM AFAR OFF UNTO THE HIGH PRIEST'S PALACE, AND WENT IN, AND SAT WITH THE SERVANTS TO SEE THE END. The palace of Caiaphas, according to most investigators, lay at the extreme southwest corner of the city of Jerusalem. It was evidently built in the form of a quadrangle about an ope... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS AND ALL THE COUNCIL SOUGHT FALSE WITNESS AGAINST JESUS TO PUT HIM TO DEATH;... [ Continue Reading ]
The trial before Caiaphas:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT FOUND NONE; YEA, THOUGH MANY FALSE WITNESSES CAME, YET FOUND THEY NONE. AT THE LAST CAME TWO FALSE WITNESSES... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID, THIS FELLOW SAID, I AM ABLE TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE OF GOD, AND TO BUILD IT IN THREE DAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE HIGH PRIEST AROSE AND SAID UNTO HIM, ANSWEREST THOU NOTHING? WHAT IS IT WHICH THESE WITNESS AGAINST THEE?... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT JESUS HELD HIS PEACE. AND THE HIGH PRIEST ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, I ADJURE THEE BY THE LIVING GOD THAT THOU TELL US WHETHER THOU BE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU HAST SAID; NEVERTHELESS I SAY UNTO YOU, HEREAFTER SHALL YE SEE THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. Note: The enumeration of the several sections of the Sanhedrin brings out all the more strongly the injustice of the procee... [ Continue Reading ]
The sentence:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE HIGH PRIEST RENT HIS CLOTHES, SAYING, HE HATH SPOKEN BLASPHEMY; WHAT FURTHER NEED HAVE WE OF WITNESSES? BEHOLD, NOW YE HAVE HEARD HIS BLASPHEMY.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT THINK YE? THEY ANSWERED AND SAID, HE IS GUILTY OF DEATH.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN DID THEY SPIT IN HIS FACE, AND BUFFETED HIM; AND OTHERS SMOTE HIM WITH THE PALMS OF THEIR HANDS,... [ Continue Reading ]
SAYING, PROPHESY UNTO US, THOU CHRIST, WHO IS HE THAT SMOTE THEE? It was the sign of the greatest grief, of the deepest mourning, for a Jew to tear open his outer garment. Here was an act of theatrical affectation without true emotion. He is shocked beyond measure, so he declares by his action, by t... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW PETER SAT WITHOUT IN THE PALACE; AND A DAMSEL CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING, THOU ALSO WAST WITH JESUS OF GALILEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
The denial of Peter:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE DENIED BEFORE THEM ALL, SAYING, I KNOW NOT WHAT THOU SAYEST.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AGAIN HE DENIED WITH AN OATH, I DO NOT KNOW THE MAN.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER A WHILE CAME UNTO HIM THEY THAT STOOD BY, AND SAID TO PETER, SURELY THOU ALSO ART ONE OF THEM; FOR THY SPEECH BETRAYETH THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN BEGAN HE TO CURSE AND TO SWEAR, SAYING, I KNOW NOT THE MAN. AND IMMEDIATELY THE COCK CREW.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD OF JESUS, WHICH SAID UNTO HIM, BEFORE THE COCK CROW, THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE. AND HE WENT OUT AND WEPT BITTERLY. Peter had found a place in the entrance-hall of the palace, not far from the door of the room where the council was in session, and also near the circle of... [ Continue Reading ]