“ Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? ”
Saying, Prophesy unto us ... - Mark informs us that before they said this they had blindfolded him. Having prevented his seeing, they ridiculed his pretensions of being the Messiah. If he Was the...
The Trial before the Sanhedrin ( Mark 14:53-63 *; see also Luke 22:54 f., Luke 22:66-71 ). There are no striking divergences from Mk.'s narrative. Matthew 26:57 . Apparently we are to think...
Prophesy . Divine. Refers to the past, not to the future.
DISCOURSE: 1405 THE INDIGNITIES OFFERED TO CHRIST IN THE PALACE OF THE HIGH PRIEST Matthew 26:67-68 . Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of the...
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? Prophesy unto us, thou Christ - Their conduct toward him now was expressly prophesied of, by a man whose Divine mission they did not...
Then did they spit in his face— Spitting in the face was the greatest contempt and disgrace which could possibly be shewn. See Numbers 12:14 . Buffeting or striking with the fist on the temple...
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled. For the exposition, see the notes at Mark 14:53-72 .
The Betrayal. The Last Supper. Arrest of Jesus, and Trial Before the High Priest 1-5. A Council is held against Jesus ( Mark 14:1 ; Luke 22:1 : cp. John 13:1 ).
Prophesy unto us, thou Christ. — The words derived their point from the fact recorded by St. Mark ( Mark 14:65 ), that the officers had blindfolded their prisoner. Was He able, through His supernat...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1-75 - Matthew 27:1-56 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large pr...
“Ashamed of Jesus!” Matthew 26:67-75 What a shameful travesty of justice! When men yield themselves to violence like this, their passion condemns them as perpetrating the devil's work. But in t...
The Lord now reverted to the theme of His coming suffering, telling the disciples with great definiteness of the time-"after two days"; and of the event-"The Son of Man is delivered up to be crucifie...
"But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest's palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end. (59) Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witne...
Saying, prophesy unto us, thou Christ ,.... Not that they owned him to be the Messiah; but because he asserted himself to be the Messiah, and his followers believed in him as such, they call him so;...
Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee? Ver. 68. Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ ] This is daily done to Christ by the children of darkness, which sin securely, an...
Then did they spit in his face , &c. Spitting in the face was the greatest contempt and disgrace which could possibly be shown. See Numbers 12:14 . Buffeting , or striking a person with the...
Only when His prophetic word, with its every dispensational bearing, is complete does the King, in calm, conscious authority, declare to His disciples that the time has arrived for His being betrayed...
Christ in the High Priest's Palace. 57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the s...
Ver. 67,68. Mark hath much the same, Mark 14:65 : And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the...
The Arraignment of Jesus Before Selected Members of the Sanhedrin (26:57-68). . What follows is not an official meeting of the Sanhedrin which could only meet by day, but a gathering of enemies of...
CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 26:57 . To Caiaphas. —Apparently after a preliminary examination before Annas ( John 18:13 ; John 18:19-24 ). Where the scribes and the elders were assembled. —It was ag...
The story of Peter's denial of his Master is recorded in all four of the Gospels. There are some differences of expression in each version, so it will not be tautology if we read all four of them; an...
Matthew 26:2 . After two day is the passover. This is the literal import of the Greek word πασχα pascha, and the Hebrew word פסח pesach, because the Israelites, after eating the paschal lamb,...
EXPOSITION Ch. 26-28:20 THUS JESUS ENTERS UPON HIS KINGDOM . Before attempting to expound this most momentous section of the gospel history, we must make up our minds concerning the...
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1 Peter 2:4-8 ; Genesis 37:19 ; Genesis 37:20 ; John 19:14 ; John 19:15 ; John 19:2 ; John 19:3 ; Judges 16:25 ; Luke 22:63-65 ; Mark 14:65 ; Mark 15:18 ; Mark 15:19 ; Matthew 27:28 ; M...