The New Testament for English Readers

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ...The shall ye see is to the council, the re-Luke xxii. 66--71. 67. Luke gives presentatives of the chosen people, 8o soon these indignities, and in the same place as to be judged by Him to whom all judg-here, adding, what indeed might have been ment is committed--the power in contrast suspected that it was not the members of to his present weakness--sitting--even as the Sanhedrim, but the men who held they now sat to judge Him; and the Jesus in custody, who inflicted them on coming in the clouds of heaven (see Dan. Him. The word rendered buffeted vii. 37) looks onward to the awful time of means to strike with the fist. The the end, when every eye shall sec Him. following verb (smote Aim) is, generally, 66. In Levit. xxi. 10 (sec also to strike a fiat blow with the back of the Levit. x. 6) the High Priest is ordered hand--but also, and probablv here, since not to rend his clothes; but that appears another set of persons are described as doto apply only to mourning for the dead, ing it, to strike with a staff." In 1 Mace. xi. 71, and in Josephus, P.. J. 69--76. Our Lord Is Thrice Deii. 15. 4, we have instances of High Priests Nied Ey Peter. Mark xiv. 66--72. rending their clothes. On rending the Luke xxii. 56--62. John xviii. 17, 18, clothes at hearing blasphemy, see 2 Kings 25--27. This narrative furnishes one of xviii. 37. 66. This was not a formal the clearest instances of the entire indecondemnation, but only a previous vote or pendency of the four Gospeh of one anexpression of opinion. That took place in other. In it, they all differ; and, supthe morning, see ch. xxvii. 1, and especially posing the denial to have taken place cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, thrice, and only thrwe, cannot be literally serve to shew what the agree...