VER 1. AFTER TWO DAYS WAS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER, AND OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES SOUGHT HOW THEY MIGHT TAKE HIM BY CRAFT, AND PUT HIM TO DEATH. 2. BUT THEY SAID, "NOT ON THE FEAST DAY, LEST THERE BE AN UPROAR OF THE PEOPLE." Pseudo-Jerome: Let us now sprinkle our b... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 3. AND BEING IN BETHANY IN THE HOUSE OF SIMON THE LEPER, AS HE SAT AT MEAT, THERE CAME A WOMAN HAVING AN ALABASTER BOX OF OINTMENT OF SPIKENARD VERY [P. 275]; AND SHE BRAKE THE BOX, AND POURED IT ON HIS HEAD. 4. AND THERE WERE SOME THAT HAD INDIGNATION WITHIN THEMSELVES, AND SAID, "WHY WAS THIS... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 10. AND JUDAS ISCARIOT, ONE OF THE TWELVE, WENT UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS, TO BETRAY HIM UNTO THEM. 11. AND WHEN THEY HEARD IT, THEY WERE GLAD, AND PROMISED TO GIVE HIM MONEY. AND HE SOUGHT HOW HE MIGHT CONVENIENTLY BETRAY HIM. Bede: The unhappy Judas wishes to compensate with the price of his Mas... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 12. AND THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHEN THEY KILLED THE PASSOVER, HIS DISCIPLES SAID UNTO HIM: WHERE WILT THOU THAT WE GO AND PREPARE THAT THOU MAYEST EAT THE PASSOVER? 13. AND HE SENDETH FORTH TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES, AND SAITH UNTO THEM: GO YE INTO THE CITY, AND THERE SHALL MEET YOU A MAN... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 17. AND IN THE EVENING HE COMETH WITH THE TWELVE. 18. AND AS THEY SAT AND DID EAT, JESUS SAID, "VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, ONE OF YOU WHICH EATETH WITH ME SHALL BETRAY ME." 19. AND THEY BEGAN TO BE SORROWFUL, AND TO SAY UNTO HIM ONE BY ONE, "IS IT I?" AND ANOTHER SAID, "IS IT I?" 20. AND HE ANSWERED... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 22. AND AS THEY DID EAT, JESUS TOOK BREAD, AND BLESSED, AND BRAKE IT, AND GAVE TO THEM, AND SAID, "TAKE, EAT: THIS IS MY BODY." 23. AND HE TOOK THE CUP, AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS, HE GAVE IT TO THEM, AND THEY ALL DRANK OF IT. 24. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, "THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT,... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 26. AND WHEN THEY HAD SUNG AN HYMN, THEY WENT OUT INTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 27. AND JESUS SAITH UNTO THEM, "ALL YE SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF ME THIS NIGHT: FOR IT IS WRITTEN, I WILL SMITE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP SHALL BE SCATTERED." 28. "BUT AFTER THAT I AM RISEN, I WILL GO BEFORE YOU INT... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver 32. And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and He saith to His disciples, "Sit ye here, while I shall pray." 33. And He taketh with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34. And saith unto them, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death:... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver 43. And immediately, while He yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the Chief Priests and the Scribes and the elders. 44. And he that betrayed Him had given them a token, saying, "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 53. AND THEY LED JESUS AWAY TO THE HIGH PRIEST: AND WITH HIM WERE ASSEMBLED ALL THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS AND THE SCRIBES. 54. AND PETER FOLLOWED HIM AFAR OFF, EVEN INTO THE PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST: AND HE SAT WITH THE SERVANTS, AND WARMED HIMSELF AT THE FIRE. 55. AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 60. AND THE HIGH PRIEST STOOD UP IN THE MIDST, AND ASKED JESUS, SAYING, "ANSWEREST THOU NOTHING? WHAT IS IT WHICH THESE WITNESS AGAINST THEE?" 61. BUT HE HELD HIS PEACE, AND ANSWERED NOTHING. AGAIN THE HIGH PRIEST ASKED HIM, AND SAID UNTO HIM, "ART THOU THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE BLESSED?" 62. A... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 66. AND AS PETER WAS BENEATH IN THE PALACE, THERE COMETH ONE OF THE MAIDS OF THE HIGH PRIEST: 67. AND WHEN SHE SAW PETER WARMING HIMSELF, SHE LOOKED UPON HIM, AND SAID, "AND THOU ALSO WAST WITH JESUS OF NAZARETH." 68. BUT HE DENIED, SAYING, "I KNOW NOT, NEITHER UNDERSTAND I WHAT THOU SAYEST." AN... [ Continue Reading ]