VER 1. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JESUS HAD FINISHED ALL THESE SAYINGS, HE SAID UNTO HIS DISCIPLES, 2. "YE KNOW THAT AFTER TWO DAYS IS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER, AND THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED TO BE CRUCIFIED." Hilary: After the discourse in which the Lord had declared that He should return in splen... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 3. 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, 4. AND CONSULTED THAT THEY MIGHT TAKE JESUS BY SUBTILTY, AND KILL HIM. 5. BUT THEY SAID, NOT ON THE FEAST DAY, LEST THERE BE AN UPROAR AMONG T... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 6. NOW WHEN JESUS WAS IN BETHANY, IN THE HOUSE OF SIMON THE LEPER, 7. 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. 8. BUT WHEN HIS DISCIPLES SAW IT, THEY HAD INDIGNATION, SAYING, "TO WHAT PURPOSE IS THIS WASTE? 9. FO... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 14. THEN ONE OF THE TWELVE, CALLED JUDAS ISCARIOT, WENT UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS, 15. 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. 16. AND FROM THAT TIME HE SOUGHT OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY HIM. Gloss., non. occ... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 17. 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?" 18. 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... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 20. NOW WHEN THE EVEN WAS COME, HE SAT DOWN WITH THE TWELVE. 21. AND AS THEY DID EAT, HE SAID, "VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT ONE OF YOU SHALL BETRAY ME." 22. AND THEY WERE EXCEEDING SORROWFUL, AND BEGAN EVERY ONE OF THEM TO SAY UNTO HIM, "LORD, IS IT I?" 23. AND HE ANSWERED AND SAID, "HE THAT DIP... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 1A. 26. 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." Jerome: When the typical Passover was concluded, and He had partaken of the Lamb with His Apostles, He comes to the true paschal sacrament; that... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 27. AND HE TOOK THE CUP, AND GAVE THANKS, AND GAVE IT TO THEM, SAYING, "DRINK YE ALL OF IT; 28. FOR THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHICH IS SHED FOR MANY FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS. 29. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK HENCEFORTH OF THIS FRUIT OF THE VINE, UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN I DRINK... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 30. AND WHEN THEY HAD SUNG AN HYMN, THEY WENT OUT INTO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 31. 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. 32. BUT AFTER I AM RISEN AGAIN, I WI... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 36. THEN COMETH JESUS WITH THEM UNTO A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE, AND SAITH UNTO THE DISCIPLES, "SIT YE HERE, WHILE I GO AND PRAY YONDER. 37. AND HE TOOK WITH HIM PETER AND THE TWO SONS OF ZEBEDEE, AND BEGAN TO BE SORROWFUL AND VERY HEAVY. 38. THEN SAITH HE UNTO THEM, "MY SOUL IS EXCEEDING SORROWF... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 39. 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." 40. AND HE COMETH UNTO THE DISCIPLES, AND FINDETH THEM ASLEEP, AND SAITH UNTO PETER, "WHAT, COULD YE NOT WATCH WI... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 45. 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. 46. RISE, LET US BE GOING: BEHOLD, HE IS AT HAND THAT DOTH BETRAY ME." Hilary: After His persevering prayer, after... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 47. 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. 48. NOW HE THAT BETRAYED HIM GAVE THEM A SIGN, SAYING, "WHOMSOEVER I SHALL KISS, THAT SAME IS HE: HOLD HIM FAST." 49. AND FORTHW... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 51. 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. 52. 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. 53.... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 55. 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 IN THE TEMPLE, AND YE LAID NO HOLD ON ME. 56. BUT ALL THIS WAS DONE, THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF THE PROPHETS MIGHT BE FULFILLED." THEN ALL THE DISCIPLES... [ Continue Reading ]
Ver 59. Now the Chief Priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; 60. But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses, 61. And said, "This fellow said, I am able to destroy the tem... [ Continue Reading ]
VER 69. NOW PETER SAT WITHOUT IN THE PALACE: AND A DAMSEL CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING, "THOU ALSO WAST WITH JESUS OF GALILEE." 70. BUT HE DENIED BEFORE THEM ALL, SAYING, "I KNOW NOT WHAT THOU SAYEST." 71. AND WHEN HE WAS GONE OUT INTO THE PORCH, ANOTHER MAID SAW HIM, AND SAID UNTO THEM THAT WERE THERE, "T... [ Continue Reading ]