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Soares + Sydney Strong + +Release Date: November 29, 2009 [EBook #30561] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS LAST WEEK *** + + + + +Produced by Larry B. Harrison and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + + His Last Week + + THE STORY OF THE PASSION AND + RESURRECTION OF JESUS + + IN THE WORDS OF THE FOUR GOSPELS + + PREPARED BY + WILLIAM E. BARTON, THEODORE G. SOARES + SYDNEY STRONG + + HOPE PUBLISHING COMPANY + CHICAGO + + + + +PREFACE. + + +ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND. + +The evangelists have devoted one-third of the Gospel record to our Lord's +Passion and Resurrection. A comparison of the four narratives clearly +indicates the order of events upon the several days of the Holy Week. The +devotional reading of the story is a most natural and helpful observance of +the Easter season. As an aid to such observance this booklet has been +prepared. It is the story, day by day, of the last week in our Lord's +earthly life in the words of the four evangelists, containing all that they +record, but without repetition. Messrs. Thomas Nelson and Sons have +generously co-operated in permitting the use of the best translation. + +Originally planned for the churches of all denominations in a single +community, the booklet has proved a blessing to many thousands of +Christians. May this new edition help in the fulfillment of the great +purpose which the Gospel epilogue expresses. + + ------------------------------------------------------ + | COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE OAK PARK PASTORS' UNION. | + | THE TEXT OF THE AMERICAN STANDARD REVISED BIBLE, | + | COPYRIGHT 1901, BY THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, IS USED | + | BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT AND WITH THEIR PERMISSION. | + ------------------------------------------------------ + + + + +HIS LAST WEEK + + +GOING UP TO JERUSALEM. + +And it came to pass when the days were well nigh come that Jesus should +be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he +departed from Galilee, and passed through the borders of Samaria and +Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan. And great +multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. + +And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going +before them: and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid. + +And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them the things that +were to happen unto them, saying, "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and +the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the +scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto +the Gentiles; and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall +scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again." + +Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, +"Let us also go, that we may die with him." + +And he entered and passed through Jericho and went on before, going up +to Jerusalem. + +Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem +out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves. They +sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in +the temple, "What think ye? That he will not come to the feast?" + +Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if +any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him. + + +THE FEAST AT BETHANY. + +Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus +was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there in +the house of Simon the leper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of +them that sat at meat with him. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of +pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his +feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. + +But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith, +"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given +to the poor?" + +Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was +a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein. + +Jesus therefore said, "Suffer her to keep it against the day of my +burying. For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not +always. She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body +beforehand for the burying. And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the +gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which +this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." + +The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and +they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus +also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests took +counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by +reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. + + + + +PALM SUNDAY--THE DAY OF TRIUMPH. + + +THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. + +On the morrow when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and +Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith +unto them, "Go your way into the village that is over against you: and +straightway as ye enter into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon no man +ever yet sat; loose him, and bring him. And if any one say unto you, 'Why +do ye this?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will +send him back hither.'" + +Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken +through the prophet, saying, + + "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, + Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, + Meek, and riding upon an ass, + And upon a colt the foal of an ass." + +And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door without in the +open street: and they loose him. And certain of them that stood there +said unto them, "What do ye, loosing the colt?" And they said unto them +even as Jesus had said: and they let them go. And they bring the colt +unto Jesus, and cast on him their garments; and he sat upon him. + +And the most part of the multitude spread their garments upon the way; +and others branches, which they had cut from the fields. And as he was +drawing nigh, even at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole +multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud +voice for all the mighty works which they had seen. And they that went +before, and they that followed, cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David; +Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Blessed is the kingdom +that cometh, the kingdom of our father David: Hosanna in the highest." + +These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus +was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of +him, and that they had done these things unto him. + +The multitude, therefore, that was with him when he called Lazarus out +of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare witness. For this +cause also the multitude went and met him, for that they heard that he +had done this sign. + +And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, "Teacher, +rebuke thy disciples." + +And he answered and said, "I tell you that, if these shall hold their +peace, the stones will cry out." + +And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If thou +hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but +now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, when +thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and +keep thee in on every side, and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy +children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon +another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." + +And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, +"Who is this?" + +And the multitude said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of +Galilee." + +The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Behold, how ye prevail +nothing; lo, the world is gone after him." + +And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and when he had looked +round about upon all things, it being now eventide, he went out unto +Bethany with the twelve. + + + + +MONDAY--THE DAY OF AUTHORITY. + + +THE CURSING OF THE FIG TREE. + +And on the morrow, when they were come out from Bethany, he hungered. +And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might +find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but +leaves; for it was not the season of figs. And he answered and said unto +it, "No man eat fruit from thee henceforward for ever." + +And his disciples heard it. + + +THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. + +And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the temple, and began to +cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and +overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that +sold the doves: and he would not suffer that any man should carry a +vessel through the temple. And he taught, and said unto them, "Is it not +written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the +nations'? but ye have made it a den of robbers." + +And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed +them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful +things that he did, and the children that were crying in the temple and +saying, "Hosanna to the son of David": they were moved with indignation, +and said unto him, "Hearest thou what these are saying?" + +And Jesus saith unto them, "Yea: did ye never read, 'Out of the mouth of +babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise'?" + +And the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the +people sought to destroy him: and they could not find what they might +do; for the people all hung upon him, listening. + +And he left them, and went forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged +there. + + + + +TUESDAY--THE DAY OF CONTROVERSY. + + +THE LESSON FROM THE WITHERED FIG TREE. + +And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered +away from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, +"Rabbi, behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away." + +And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Have faith in God. Verily I say +unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou taken up +and cast into the sea'; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall +believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it. Therefore +I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe +that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And whensoever ye stand +praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father +also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." + + +THE CHALLENGE OF CHRIST'S AUTHORITY. + +And they came again to Jerusalem. And all the people came early in the +morning to him in the temple to hear him. And as he was teaching the +people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, there came upon him the +chief priests and the scribes with the elders; and they spake, saying +unto him, "Tell us: By what authority doest thou these things? or who is +he that gave thee this authority?" + +And Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I also will ask you one question, +which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these +things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven or from men?" + +And they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we shall say, 'From +heaven'; he will say unto us, 'Why did ye not believe him?' But if we +shall say, 'From men'; all the people will stone us: for they are +persuaded that John was a prophet." + +And they answered Jesus, and said, "We know not." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do +these things." + + +THE TWO SONS. + +"But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and +said, 'Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.' And he answered and said, +'I will not': but afterward he repented himself, and went. And he came +to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, 'I go, sir': +and went not. Which of the two did the will of his father?" + +They say, "The first." + +Jesus saith unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and +the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto +you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the +publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye saw it, did not +even repent yourselves afterward that ye might believe him." + + +THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN. + +"Hear another parable: There was a man who was a householder, who +planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress +in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into +another country. And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent +his servants to the husbandmen to receive his fruits. And the +husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and +stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and +they did unto them in like manner. But afterward he sent unto them his +son, saying, 'They will reverence my son.' But the husbandmen, when +they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let +us kill him, and take his inheritance.' And they took him, and cast +him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord +of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen?" + +They say unto him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and +will let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him +the fruits in their seasons." + +Jesus saith unto them, "Did ye never read in the scriptures, + + 'The stone which the builders rejected, + The same was made the head of the corner; + This was from the Lord, + And it is marvellous in our eyes'? + +Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken away from +you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. +And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces; but on +whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust." + +And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they +perceived that he spake of them. And when they sought to lay hold on +him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet. + + +THE MARRIAGE OF THE KING'S SON. + +And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, "The +kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast +for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to +the marriage feast: and they would not come. Again he sent forth other +servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, 'Behold, I have made ready my +dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready; come +to the marriage feast.' But they made light of it, and went their ways, one +to his own farm, another to his merchandise; and the rest laid hold on his +servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. But the king was +wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned +their city. Then saith he to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but they +that were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore unto the partings of the +highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.' And +those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as +many as they found, both bad and good; and the wedding was filled with +guests. But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man +who had not on a wedding-garment: and he saith unto him, 'Friend, how +camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment?' And he was speechless. +Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him +out into the outer darkness'; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing +of teeth. For many are called, but few chosen." + + +TRIBUTE TO CÆSAR. + +Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him +in his talk so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority +of the governor. And they send to him their disciples, with the +Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest +the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou +regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest +thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?" + +But Jesus perceived their craftiness, and said, "Why make ye trial of +me, ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute money." + +And they brought unto him a denarius. And he saith unto them, "Whose is +this image and superscription?" + +They say unto him, "Cæsar's." + +Then he saith unto them, "Render therefore unto Cæsar the things that +are Cæsar's; and unto God the things that are God's." + +And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left him, and went away. + + +THE QUESTION OF THE RESURRECTION. + +And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that +there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, "Teacher, Moses +wrote unto us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife, and he be +childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto +his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a +wife, and died childless; and the second; and the third took her; and +likewise the seven also left no children, and died. Afterward the +woman also died. In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them +shall she be? for the seven had her to wife." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the +power of God. The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage; but +they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the +resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: for +neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are +sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, +even Moses showed, in the place concerning the Bush, when he calleth the +Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he +is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him." + +And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. + + +THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT. + +And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and +knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "What commandment is +the first of all?" + +Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the +Lord is one: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, +and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy +strength.' The second is this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as +thyself.' There is none other commandment greater than these." + +And the scribe said unto him, "Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said +that he is one: and there is none other but he: and to love him with all +the heart, and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and +to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole +burnt-offerings and sacrifices." + +And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, "Thou +art not far from the kingdom of God." + + +THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION OF JESUS. + +Now while the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them a +question, saying, "What think ye of the Christ? whose son is he?" + +They say unto him, "The son of David." + +He saith unto them, "How then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, +saying, + + 'The Lord said unto my Lord, + Sit thou on my right hand, + Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet?' + +If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?" + +And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from +that day forth ask him any more questions. + +And the common people heard him gladly. + + +DISCOURSE OF JESUS AGAINST THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES. + +Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying, "The +scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat: all things therefore +whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their +works; for they say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous +to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not +move them with their finger. But all their works they do to be seen of men: +for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their +garments, and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the +synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called of +men, 'Rabbi.' But be not ye called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, and +all ye are brethren. And call no man your father on the earth: for one is +your Father, even he who is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for +one is your master, even the Christ. But he that is greatest among you +shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: +and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. + +"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut +the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, +neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and +land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him +twofold more a son of hell than yourselves. + +"Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, 'Whosoever shall swear by the +temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the +temple, he is a debtor.' Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the +gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? And, 'Whosoever +shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by +the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.' Ye blind: for which is +greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? He therefore +that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. +And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that +dwelleth therein. And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the +throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and +anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, +justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not +to have left the other undone. Ye blind guides, that strain out the +gnat, and swallow the camel! + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the +outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from +extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of +the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto +whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are +full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also +outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of +hypocrisy and iniquity. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the +sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, +and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not +have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' Wherefore +ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the +prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye +offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? +Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and +scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them +shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: +that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from +the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of +Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I +say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. + +"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them +that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children +together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye +would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto +you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, 'Blessed is he +that cometh in the name of the Lord.'" + + +THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES. + +And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude +cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And +there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. +And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, "Verily, I say +unto you, This poor widow cast in more than all they that are casting into +the treasury: for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her +want did cast in all that she had, even all her living." + + +THE GENTILES SEEK JESUS. + +Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the +feast: these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, +and asked him, saying, "Sir, we would see Jesus." + +Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, and Philip, and they +tell Jesus. + +And Jesus answereth them, saying, "The hour is come, that the Son of man +should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of +wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it +die, it beareth much fruit. He that loveth his life loseth it: and he +that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If +any man serve me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also my +servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor. Now is my +soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But +for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name." + +There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, "I have both +glorified it, and will glorify it again." + +The multitude, therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it had +thundered: others said, "An angel hath spoken to him." + +Jesus answered and said, "This voice hath not come for my sake, but for +your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of +this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will +draw all men unto myself." + +But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die. + +The multitude therefore answered him, "We have heard out of the law that +the Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, 'The Son of man must be +lifted up'? who is this Son of man?" + +Jesus therefore said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light among +you. Walk while ye have the light that darkness overtake you not: and he +that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye +have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light." + +These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them. + + +THE JEWS REJECT JESUS. + +But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on +him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he +spake, + + "Lord, who hath believed our report? + And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?" + +For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again, + + "He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; + Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their + heart, + And should turn, + And I should heal them." + +These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him. +Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the +Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the +synagogue: for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that +is of God. + +And Jesus cried and said, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, +but on him that sent me. And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that +sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on +me may not abide in the darkness. And if any man hear my sayings, and +keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but +to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, +hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge +him in the last day. For I spake not from myself; but the Father that +sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I +should speak. And I know that his commandment is life eternal; the things +therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak." + + +DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE FUTURE. + +And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his +disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. + +But he answered and said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily +I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, +that shall not be thrown down." + +And as he sat on the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and +James and John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when shall +these things be? and what shall be the sign when these things are all +about to be accomplished?" + +And Jesus began to say unto them, "Take heed that no man lead you +astray. Many shall come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and shall lead +many astray. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not +troubled: these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. +For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there +shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these +things are the beginning of the travail. + +"But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to +councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before governors +and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them. And +the gospel must first be preached unto all the nations. And when they +lead you to judgment, and deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand +what ye shall speak; but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, +that speak ye; for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. But +ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, +and friends: and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And +ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. + +"And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall +hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many +astray. And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many +shall wax cold. But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. + +"But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her +desolation is at hand. Then let them that are in Judæa flee unto the +mountains; let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the +things that are in his house; and let him that is in the field not +return back to take his cloak. For these are days of vengeance, that all +things which are written may be fulfilled. + +"But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in +those days! And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither +on a Sabbath: for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been +from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. And +except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: +but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man +shall say unto you, 'Lo, here is the Christ,' or, 'Here,' believe it +not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall +show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even +the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have told you all things +beforehand. If, therefore, they shall say unto you, 'Behold, he is in +the wilderness,' go not forth: 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' +believe it not. For as the lightning cometh forth from the east and is +seen even unto the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. +Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. + +"But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be +darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall +fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and +then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall +all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man +coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he +shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and shall +gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part +of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. + +"Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become +tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh; even +so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at +the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away till +all these things be accomplished. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my +words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not +even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. + +"But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with +surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come +on you suddenly as a snare; for so shall it come upon all them that +dwell on the face of all the earth. But watch ye at every season, making +supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall +come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. + +"And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. +For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and +drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered +into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all +away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. Then shall two men be in +the field; one is taken, and one is left; two women shall be grinding at +the mill; one is taken, and one is left. Watch therefore: for ye know not +on what day your Lord cometh. + +"But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch +the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered +his house to be broken through. Therefore be ye also ready; for in an +hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh. + +"Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. It is as +when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given +authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter +to watch. Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house +cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the +morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you +I say unto all, Watch. + +"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord hath set over his +household, to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant, +whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, +that he will set him over all that he hath. But if that evil servant shall +say in his heart, 'My lord tarrieth'; and shall begin to beat his +fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that +servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he +knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the +hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth." + + +THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. + +"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who +took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of +them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took +their lamps, took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their +vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all +slumbered and slept. But at midnight there is a cry, 'Behold, the +bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.' Then all those virgins arose, +and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, 'Give us +of your oil; for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, +saying, 'Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go ye +rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.' + +"And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that +were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and the door was +shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open +to us.' But he answered and said, 'Verily I say unto you, I know you not.' + +"Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour." + + +THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. + +"For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own +servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five +talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several +ability; and he went on his journey. Straightway he that received the five +talents went and traded with them, and made other five talents. In like +manner he also that received the two gained other two. But he that received +the one went away and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. + +"Now after a long time the lord of these servants cometh, and maketh a +reckoning with them. And he that received the five talents came and brought +other five talents, saying, 'Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: +lo, I have gained other five talents.' His lord said unto him, 'Well done, +good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I +will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.' + +"And he also that received the two talents came and said, 'Lord, thou +deliveredst unto me two talents: lo, I have gained other two talents.' + +"His lord said unto him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant: thou +hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; +enter thou into the joy of thy lord.' + +"And he also that had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I +knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, +and gathering where thou didst not scatter; and I was afraid, and went +away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.' + +"But his lord answered and said unto him, 'Thou wicked and slothful +servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did +not scatter; thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, +and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest. Take +ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the +ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have +abundance; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be +taken away. And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer +darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'" + + +THE JUDGMENT SCENE. + +"But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with +him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before him shall be +gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as +the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; and he shall set the +sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say +unto them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the +kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was +hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a +stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye +visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.' + +"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, 'Lord, when saw we thee +hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? And when saw we +thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And when +saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?' And the King shall +answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it +unto one of these my children, even these least, ye did it unto me.' + +"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 'Depart from me, ye +cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his +angels: for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and +ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye +clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.' Then shall +they also answer, saying, 'Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a +stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?' +Then shall he answer them, saying, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye +did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.' And these shall +go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life." + + +THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST JESUS. + +And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, he said +unto his disciples, "Ye know that after two days the passover cometh, +and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified." + +Then were gathered together the chief priests, the elders of the people, +unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; and they took +counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him. But +they said, "Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among the people." + +And Satan entered into Judas, who was called Iscariot, being of the number +of the twelve. And he went away and communed with the chief priests and +captains, how he might deliver him unto them. And they were glad, and they +weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought +opportunity to deliver him unto them in the absence of the multitude. + + + + +WEDNESDAY--THE DAY OF RETIREMENT. + + +[There is no record of the events of this day. Jesus spent it in +retirement, almost certainly in the home of his friends at Bethany.] + + + + +THURSDAY--THE DAY OF FELLOWSHIP. + + +PREPARATION FOR THE PASSOVER. + +And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the +passover, his disciples say unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and +make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?" + +And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, "Go into the +city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow +him; and wheresoever he shall enter in, say to the master of the house, +'The Teacher saith, My time is at hand. Where is my guest-chamber, where +I shall eat the passover with my disciples?' And he will himself show +you a large upper room furnished and ready: and there make ready for us." + +And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he +had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. + + +STRIFE AMONG THE DISCIPLES. + +And when it was evening he cometh with the twelve. And there arose also +a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest. And +he said unto them, "The kings of the Gentiles have lordship over them; +and they that have authority over them are called Benefactors. But ye +shall not be so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as +the younger: and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For which is +greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Is not he that +sitteth at meat? But I am in the midst of you as he that serveth. But ye +are they that have continued with me in my temptations; and I appoint +unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me, that ye may +eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones +judging the twelve tribes of Israel." + + +JESUS WASHING THE DISCIPLES' FEET. + +Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was +come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having +loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end. + +And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas +Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had +given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and +goeth unto God, riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments; and +he took a towel, and girded himself. Then he poureth water into the +basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the +towel wherewith he was girded. + +So he cometh to Simon Peter. He saith unto him, "Lord, dost thou wash my +feet?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "What I do thou knowest not now; but +thou shalt understand hereafter." + +Peter saith unto him, "Thou shalt never wash my feet." + +Jesus answered him, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me." + +Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands +and my head." + +Jesus saith to him, "He that is bathed needeth not save to wash his +feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all." For he +knew him that should betray him; therefore said he, "Ye are not all clean." + +So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and sat down +again, he said unto them, "Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me +Teacher, and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, the Lord +and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one +another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye also should do +as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, A servant is not +greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that +sent him. If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them. + +"I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture +may be fulfilled, He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me. +From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to +pass, ye may believe that I am he. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that +receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me +receiveth him that sent me." + + +THE BETRAYER POINTED OUT. + +When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and testified, and +said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me." + +The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. And +they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to say unto him every one, +"Is it I, Lord?" + +And he answered and said, "He that dipped his hand with me in the dish, +the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of +him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! Good +were it for that man if he had not been born." + +And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, "Is it I, Rabbi?" + +He saith unto him, "Thou hast said." + +There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, +whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoneth to him, and saith unto +him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaketh." + +He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, saith unto him, "Lord, who +is it?" + +Jesus therefore answereth, "He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and +give it him." + +So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, the son +of Simon Iscariot. And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. + +Jesus therefore saith unto him, "What thou doest, do quickly." + +Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. For +some thought because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said unto him, "Buy +what things we have need of for the feast," or that he should give +something to the poor. He then having received the sop went out +straightway: and it was night. + +When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, "Now is the Son of man +glorified, and God is glorified in him; and God shall glorify him in +himself, and straightway shall he glorify him." + + +THE LORD'S SUPPER. + +And he said unto them, "With desire I have desired to eat this passover +with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I shall not eat it until +it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." + +And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave +to them, saying, "This is my body; which is given for you; this do in +remembrance of me." + +And he took a cup, in like manner after supper, and gave thanks, and gave +to them, saying, "Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new +covenant, which is poured out for you, for many, unto remission of sins. +Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say unto you, I shall not +drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God +shall come." + + +THE FAREWELL CONVERSATION. + +"Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and +as I said unto the Jews, 'Whither I go, ye cannot come,' so now I say unto +you. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I +have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know +that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." + +Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, whither goest thou?" + +Jesus answered, "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou +shalt follow afterwards." + +And Jesus saith unto them, "All ye shall be offended: for it is written, +I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad. +Howbeit, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." + +But Peter said unto him, "Although all shall be offended, yet will not I." + +And Jesus saith unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, that thou to-day, +even this night, before the cock crow twice, shalt deny me thrice. +Simon, Simon, behold Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as +wheat: but I make supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not: and do +thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren." + +But he spake vehemently, "If I must die with thee, I will not deny +thee." And in like manner also said they all. + + * * * * * + +And he said unto them, "When I sent you forth without purse, and wallet, +and shoes, lacked ye anything?" + +And they said, "Nothing." + +And he said unto them, "But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, +and likewise a wallet; and he that hath none, let him sell his cloak, +and buy a sword. For I say unto you, that this which is written must be +fulfilled in me, 'And he was reckoned with transgressors': for that +which concerneth me hath fulfillment." + +And they said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." + +And he said unto them, "It is enough." + + * * * * * + +"Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In +my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have +told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a +place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that +where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go, ye know the way." + +Thomas saith unto him, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know +we the way?" + +Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one +cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye would have +known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." + +Philip saith unto him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou +not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how +sayest thou, 'Show us the Father'? Believest thou not that I am in the +Father, and the Father in me? The words that I say unto you I speak not +from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works. Believe me +that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for +the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth +on me, the works that I do shall he do also: and greater works than +these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. And whatsoever ye shall +ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the +Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do. If ye love +me, ye will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he +shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, even +the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him +not, neither knoweth him: ye know him, for he abideth with you, and +shall be in you. I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you. + +"Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: +because I live, ye shall live also. In that day ye shall know that I am in +my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and +keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved +of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him." + +Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, "Lord, what is come to pass that +thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "If a man love me, he will keep my +word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make +our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the +word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding with you. But +the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my +name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all +that I said unto you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: +not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be +troubled, neither let it be fearful. Ye heard how I said to you, I go +away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, +because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I. + +"And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come +to pass, ye may believe. I will no more speak much with you, for the +prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me; but that the +world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me +commandment, even so I do." + + * * * * * + +"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me +that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth +fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean +because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in +you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the +vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the +branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: +for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast +forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them +into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide +in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my +Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: and so shall ye be my disciples. +Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my +love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have +kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and +that your joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that ye love +one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than +this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, +if ye do the things which I command you. No longer do I call you +servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have +called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have +made known unto you. Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and +appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit +should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, +he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye may love one +another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before +it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: +but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, +therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto +you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, +they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep +yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's +sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and +spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse +for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not +done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: +but now have they both seen and hated me and my Father. But this +cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in +their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' But when the Comforter is +come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of +truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me: +and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to +stumble. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour +cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth +service unto God. And these things will they do, because they have not +known the Father, nor me. But these things have I spoken unto you, +that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told +you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because +I was with you. But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you +asketh me, 'Whither goest thou?' But because I have spoken these +things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell +you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not +away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send +him unto you. And he, when he is come, will convict the world in +respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because +they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to the Father, +and ye behold me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this +world hath been judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye +cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, +he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from +himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: +and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall +glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. +All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that +he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you. A little while, and +ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me." + +Some of his disciples therefore said one to another, "What is this that +he saith unto us, 'A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a +little while, and ye shall see me': and 'Because I go to the Father'?" + +They said therefore, "What is this that he saith, 'A little while'? We +know not what he saith." + +Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them, +"Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little +while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see +me'? Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the +world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned +into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is +come: but when she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the +anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world. And ye therefore +now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, +and your joy no one taketh away from you. And in that day ye shall ask me +no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of +the Father, he will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing +in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full. + +"These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, +when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you +plainly of the Father. In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say +not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father +himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I +came forth from the Father. I came out from the Father, and am come into +the world; again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father." + +His disciples say, "Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark +saying. Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any +man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God." + +Jesus answered them, "Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is +come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me +alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things +have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have +tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world." + + +THE INTERCESSORY PRAYER. + +These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, +"Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee: +even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou +hast given him, he should give eternal life. And this is life eternal, that +they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even +Jesus Christ. I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work +which thou hast given me to do. And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine +own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I +manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: +thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word. +Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: +for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they +received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they +believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the +world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: and all +things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in +them. And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come +to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that +they may be one, even as we are. While I was with them, I kept them in thy +name which thou hast given me; and I guarded them, and not one of them +perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. +But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they +may have my joy made full in themselves. I have given them thy word, and +the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not +of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but +that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, +even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is +truth. As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the +world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may +be sanctified in truth. Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also +that believe on me through their word; that they may all be one; even as +thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that +the world may believe that thou didst send me. And the glory which thou +hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are +one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that +the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou +lovedst me. Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with +me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for +thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the +world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send +me; and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the +love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them." + +And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. + + + + +FRIDAY--THE DAY OF SUFFERING. + + +THE AGONY IN GETHSEMANE. + +And they come unto a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith unto +his disciples, "Sit ye here, while I pray." + +And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly +amazed, and sore troubled. And he saith unto them, "My soul is exceeding +sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch." + +And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, +if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. + +And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove +this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt." + +And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. + +And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as +it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground. + +And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the disciples, and +found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto Peter, "Simon, sleepest +thou? Couldest thou not watch one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter +not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." + +Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if +this cannot pass away, except I drink it, thy will be done." + +And he came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. +And he left them again, and went away, and prayed a third time, saying +the same words. + +Then cometh he to the 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. + +"Arise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that betrayeth me." + + +THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST. + +And straightway, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, +and with him a multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests +and the scribes and the elders. + +Now he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, "Whomsoever I +shall kiss, that is he; take him, and lead him away safely." And when he +was come, straightway he came to him, and saith, "Rabbi," and kissed him. + +But Jesus said unto him, "Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a +kiss?" + +Jesus, therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went +forth, and saith unto them, "Whom seek ye?" + +They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." + +Jesus saith unto them, "I am he." + +And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When therefore +he said unto them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground. + +Again therefore he asked them, "Whom seek ye?" + +And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." + +Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he; if therefore ye seek me, let +these go their way": that the word might be fulfilled which he spake, +"Of those whom thou hast given me I lost not one." + +And when they that were about him saw what would follow, they said, +"Lord, shall we smite with the sword?" + +Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest's +servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus. + +But Jesus answered and said, "Suffer ye them thus far." And he touched +his ear, and healed him. + +Then saith Jesus unto Peter, "Put up again thy sword into its place: +for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Or +thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father and he shall even now +send me more than twelve legions of angels? How then should the +scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? The cup which the +Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" + +And Jesus said unto the chief priests and captains of the temple, and +elders, that were come against him, "Are ye come out as against a +robber, with swords and staves? When I was daily with you in the +temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your +hour, and the power of darkness." + +Then all the disciples left him, and fled. + +And a certain young man followed with him, having a linen cloth cast +about him, over his naked body: and they lay hold on him; but he left +the linen cloth, and fled naked. + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. + +So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, +seized Jesus and bound him, and led him to Annas first; for he was +father in law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. Now Caiaphas +was he that gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one +man should die for the people. + +And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that +disciple was known unto the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into +the court of the high priest; but Peter was standing at the door +without. So the other disciple, who was known unto the high priest, +went out and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. + +The maid therefore that kept the door saith unto Peter, "Art thou also +one of this man's disciples?" + +He saith, "I am not." + +Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a +fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming themselves; and +Peter also was with them standing and warming himself. + +The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his +teaching. Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I even +taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; +and in secret spake I nothing. Why askest thou me? Ask them that have heard +me, what I spake unto them: behold, these know the things which I said." + +And when he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus +with his hand, saying, "Answerest thou the high priest so?" + +Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; +but if well, why smitest thou me?" + +Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. + +Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witness against Jesus to +put him to death; and found it not. For many bare false witness against +him, and their witness agreed not together. And there stood up certain, and +bare false witness against him, saying, "We heard him say, I will destroy +this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another +made without hands." And not even so did their witness agree together. + +And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, +"Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?" + +But he held his peace, and answered nothing. + +And the high priest said unto him, "I adjure thee by the living God, +that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God." + +And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the +right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." + +And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, "What further need have +we of witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?" + +And they all condemned him to be worthy of death. + +Then did they spit in his face and buffet him. And they blindfolded him +and smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, "Prophesy unto us, +thou Christ: who is he that struck thee?" + + +THE DENIAL OF PETER. + +And as Peter was beneath in the court, there cometh one of the maids of +the high priest; and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, +and saith, "Thou also wast with the Nazarene, even Jesus." + +But he denied, saying, "I neither know nor understand what thou sayest," +and he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. + +And after a little while they that stood by came and said to Peter, "Of +a truth thou also art one of them; for thy speech maketh thee known." + +Then began he to curse and to swear, "I know not the man." And +straightway the cock crew. + +And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the +word of the Lord, how that he said unto him, "Before the cock crow twice +thou shalt deny me thrice." + +And he went out, and wept bitterly. + +And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and +scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, +and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate, the governor. + + +THE REMORSE OF JUDAS. + +Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented +himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests +and elders, saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." + +But they said, "What is that to us? See thou to it." + +And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; +and he went away and hanged himself. + +And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It is not +lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood." +And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to +bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, "The field of +blood," unto this day. + +Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, +saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him +that was priced, whom certain of the children of Israel did price; and +they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me." + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE. + +They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Prætorium: and it was +early; and they themselves entered not into the Prætorium, that they +might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. Pilate therefore went +out unto them, and saith, "What accusation bring ye against this man?" + +They answered and said unto him, "If this man were not an evil-doer, we +should not have delivered him up unto thee." + +Pilate therefore said unto them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him +according to your law." + +The Jews said unto him, "It is not lawful for us to put any man to +death": that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, +signifying by what manner of death he should die. + +And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our +nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, and saying that he +himself is Christ a king." + +And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered +nothing. Then saith Pilate unto him, "Hearest thou not how many things +they witness against thee?" And he gave him no answer, not even to one +word: insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. + +Pilate therefore entered again into the Prætorium, and called Jesus, and +said unto him, "Art thou the King of the Jews?" + +Jesus answered, "Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell it thee +concerning me?" + +Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests +delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?" + +Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of +this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered +to the Jews; but now is my kingdom not from hence." + +Pilate therefore said unto him, "Art thou a king then?" + +Jesus answered, "Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been +born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear +witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." + +Pilate saith unto him, "What is truth?" + +And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith +unto them, "I find no crime in him." + +But they were the more urgent, saying, "He stirreth up the people, teaching +throughout all Judæa, and beginning from Galilee, even unto this place." + +But when Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man were a Galilæan. And +when he knew that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him unto +Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in these days. + + +JESUS BEFORE HEROD. + +Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad; for he was of a long time +desirous to see him, because he had heard concerning him; and he hoped to +see some miracle done by him. And he questioned him in many words; but he +answered him nothing. And the chief priests and the scribes stood, +vehemently accusing him. And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and +mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate. + +And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day: for +before they were at enmity between themselves. + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE RESUMED. + +And Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, +and said unto them, "Ye brought unto me this man, as one that perverteth +the people: and behold, I, having examined him before you, found no fault +in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: no, nor yet Herod: +for he sent him back unto us; and behold, nothing worthy of death hath been +done by him. I will therefore chastise him, and release him." + +Now at the feast the governor was wont to release unto the multitude one +prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner, called +Barabbas, lying bound with them that had made insurrection, men who in +the insurrection had committed murder. And the multitude went up and +began to ask him to do as he was wont to do unto them. + +And Pilate answered them, saying, "Will ye that I release unto you the +King of the Jews?" For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had +delivered him up. + +Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes that they +should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. + +But the governor answered and said unto them, "Which of the two will ye +that I release unto you?" + +And they said, "Barabbas." + +Pilate saith unto them, "What then shall I do unto Jesus who is called +Christ?" + +They all say, "Let him be crucified." + +And he said unto them a third time, "Why, what evil hath this man done? I +have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise and release +him." + +Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. + +And the soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Prætorium; +and they call together the whole band. + +And they stripped him, and arrayed him in a purple garment. And they +platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his +right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying: +"Hail, King of the Jews!" and they struck him with their hands. And they +spat upon him, and took the reed and smote him upon the head. + +And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, "Behold, I bring him out +to you, that ye may know that I find no crime in him." + +Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple +garment. And Pilate saith unto them, "Behold, the man!" + +When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried +out, saying, "Crucify him, crucify him!" + +Pilate saith unto them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I +find no crime in him." + +The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, +because he made himself the Son of God." + +When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid; and he +entered into the Prætorium again, and saith unto Jesus, "Whence art thou?" + +But Jesus gave him no answer. + +Pilate therefore saith unto him, "Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou +not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee?" + +Jesus answered him, "Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it +were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee +hath greater sin." + +Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, +"If thou release this man, thou art not Cæsar's friend: every one that +maketh himself a king speaketh against Cæsar." + +When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat +down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in +Hebrew, Gabbatha. + +And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent unto him, +saying, "Have thou nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have +suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." + +Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. +And he saith unto the Jews, "Behold, your King." + +They therefore cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" + +Pilate saith unto them, "Shall I crucify your King?" + +The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Cæsar." + +So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult +was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, +saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to it." + +And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us, and on our +children." + +And they were urgent with loud voices asking that he might be crucified. +And their voices prevailed. + +And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, gave sentence that what +they asked for should be done. And he released unto them Barabbas, him +that for insurrection and murder had been cast into prison, whom they +asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will. + +And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the robe, and put +on him his garments, and led him away to crucify him. + + +THE SORROWFUL WAY. + +They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself. + +And as they came out, they laid hold upon one Simon of Cyrene, the +father of Alexander and Rufus, who was passing by, coming from the +country; him they compelled to go with them, and laid on him the cross, +that he might bear it after Jesus. + +And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who +bewailed and lamented him. + +But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not +for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, +the days are coming, in which they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, +and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.' +Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to +the hills, 'Cover us.' For if they do these things in the green tree, +what shall be done in the dry?" + +And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to +death. + + +THE CRUCIFIXION. + +And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, +The place of a skull, they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: and +when he had tasted it, he would not drink. + +There they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and +the other on the left. + +And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." + +And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was +written: + + -------------------------------------------- + | JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. | + -------------------------------------------- + +This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus +was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in +Latin, and in Greek. + +The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Write not, 'The +King of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am King of the Jews.'" + +Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." + +The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments +and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the +coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said +therefore one to another, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, +whose it shall be": that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, + + "They parted my garments among them, + And upon my vesture did they cast lots." + +These things therefore the soldiers did; and they sat and watched him +there. + +And the people stood beholding. + +And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, +"Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save +thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross." + +In like manner also, the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and +elders, said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let the Christ, +the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and +believe. He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth +him: for he said, I am the Son of God." + +And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, "Art +not thou the Christ? Save thyself and us." + +But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Dost thou not even fear +God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for +we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing +amiss." And he said, "Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom." + +And he said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with +me in Paradise." + +But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his +mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. When +Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he +loved, he saith unto his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!" + +Then saith he to the disciple, "Behold thy mother!" + +And from that hour the disciple took her unto his owns home. + +And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land +until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud +voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My +God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" + +And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he +calleth Elijah." + +After this, Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the +scripture might be accomplished, saith, "I thirst." + +There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full +of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth. When Jesus +therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." + +And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into thy hands I +commend my spirit," and having said this, he gave up the ghost. + +And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the +bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent; and the tombs +were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were +raised; and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they +entered into the holy city and appeared unto many. + +Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when they +saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, +saying, "Truly this was the Son of God." + +And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they +beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts. And +many women were there beholding from afar, who had followed Jesus from +Galilee, ministering unto him; among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary +the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. + +The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies +should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that +sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be +broken, and that they might be taken away. + +The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of +the other that was crucified with him: but when they came to Jesus, and +saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs; howbeit one of +the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came +out blood and water. And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his +witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may +believe. For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be +fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken." And again another +scripture saith, "They shall look on him whom they pierced." + + +THE BURIAL. + +And after these things, when even was come, there came a rich man from +Arimathæa, named Joseph, a councillor of honorable estate, a disciple of +Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews; and he boldly went in unto Pilate +and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if he were already +dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been +any while dead. And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the +corpse to Joseph. + +He came therefore, and took away his body. And there came also Nicodemus, +he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and +aloes, about a hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it +in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. + +Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden: and in the +garden a new tomb wherein was never man yet laid. There then because of +the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand), they laid Jesus; +and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. + +And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld the tomb, and how +his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. + + + + +SATURDAY--THE DAY OF SILENCE AND SORROW. + + +THE WATCH AT THE TOMB. + +Now on the morrow, which is the day after the Preparation, the chief +priests and the Pharisees were gathered together unto Pilate, saying, "Sir, +we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, 'After three +days I rise again.' Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until +the third day, lest haply his disciples come and steal him away, and say +unto the people, 'He is risen from the dead,' and the last error will be +worse than the first." + +Pilate said unto them, "Ye have a guard: go, make it as sure as ye can." + +So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, the guard +being with them. + + + + +SUNDAY--THE DAY OF RESURRECTION. + + +THE EARTHQUAKE. + +And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord +descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon +it. His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and +for fear of him the watchers did quake, and became as dead men. + + +THE EMPTY TOMB. + +Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it +was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the +tomb. She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other +disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, "They have taken away +the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him." + +Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went toward +the tomb. And they ran both together: and the other disciple outran +Peter, and came first to the tomb; and stooping and looking in, he seeth +the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in. + +Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and entered into the +tomb: and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, that was +upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by +itself. Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, who came first +to the tomb, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the +scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went +away again unto their own home. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO MARY. + +But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, she +stooped and looked into the tomb; and she beholdeth two angels in white +sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus +had lain. And they say unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou?" + +She saith unto them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know +not where they have laid him." + +When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and beholdeth Jesus +standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. + +Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" + +She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, "Sir, if thou hast +borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him +away." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Mary." + +She turneth herself, and saith unto him in Hebrew, "Rabboni"; which is +to say, "Teacher." + +Jesus saith to her, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the +Father; but go unto my brethren, and say to them, 'I ascend unto my +Father, and your Father, and my God and your God.'" + +Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; +and that he had said these things unto her. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE WOMEN. + +And the women which had come with him out of Galilee came unto the tomb, +bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they were saying among +themselves, "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the tomb?" +and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled back: for it was +exceeding great. And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting +on the right side, arrayed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he +saith unto them, "Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been +crucified; he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid +him! But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goeth before you into +Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.'" + +And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran +to bring his disciples word. + +And behold, Jesus met them, saying, "All hail." And they came and took +hold of his feet, and worshipped him. + +Then saith Jesus unto them, "Fear not: go tell my brethren that they +depart into Galilee, and there shall they see me." + + +REPORT OF THE WATCH. + +Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city, +and told unto the chief priests all the things that were come to pass. +And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, +they gave much money unto the soldiers, saying, "Say ye, 'His disciples +came by night, and stole him away while we slept.' And if this come to +the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and rid you of care." + +So they took the money and did as they were taught: and this saying was +spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day. + + +THE APPEARANCE AT EMMAUS. + +And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named +Emmaus, which was three-score furlongs from Jerusalem. And they communed +with each other of all these things which had happened. + +And it came to pass, while they communed and questioned together, that +Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden +that they should not know him. + +And he said unto them, "What communications are these that ye have one +with another, as ye walk?" + +And they stood still, looking sad. And one of them, named Cleopas, +answering, said unto him, "Dost thou alone sojourn in Jerusalem and not +know the things which are come to pass there in these days?" + +And he said unto them, "What things?" + +And they said unto him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who +was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God, and all the people: +and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be +condemned to death, and crucified him. But we hoped that it was he who +should redeem Israel. Yea, and besides all this, it is now the third +day since these things came to pass. Moreover, certain women of our +company amazed us, having been early at the tomb; and when they found +not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of +angels, who said that he was alive. And certain of them that were with +us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but +him they saw not." + +And he said unto them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in +all that the prophets have spoken! Behooved it not the Christ to suffer +these things, and to enter into his glory?" + +And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to +them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. + +And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were going: and he +made as though he would go further. And they constrained him, saying, +"Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent." + +And he went in to abide with them. And it came to pass, when he had sat +down with them to meat, he took the bread and blessed; and breaking it, +he gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he +vanished out of their sight. + +And they said one to another, "Was not our heart burning within us, +while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?" + +And they rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found +the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, "The +Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." And they rehearsed +the things that happened in the way, and how he was known of them in the +breaking of the bread. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES. + +When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and +when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, +Jesus came and stood in the midst and saith unto them, "Peace be unto you." + +But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a +spirit. And he said unto them, "Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do +questionings arise in your heart? See my hands and my feet, that it is I +myself: handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye +behold me having." + +And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. + +And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said unto +them, "Have ye here anything to eat?" + +And they gave him a piece of broiled fish. And he took it, and ate +before them. + +Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be unto you: as the Father hath +sent me, even so send I you." And when he had said this, he breathed on +them, and saith unto them, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit: whose soever sins +ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose soever sins ye retain, they +are retained." + + + + +AFTER THE RESURRECTION DAY. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES AND TO THOMAS. + +But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus +came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, "We have seen the Lord." + +But he said unto them, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the +nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand +into his side, I will not believe." + +And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with +them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and +said, "Peace be unto you." + +Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and +reach hither thy hand, and put it into my side: and be not faithless, +but believing." + +Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: +blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE SEVEN BY THE SEA. + +After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at +the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself on this wise. There were +together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of Cana in +Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. + +Simon Peter saith unto them, "I go a fishing." + +They say unto him, "We also come with thee." + +They went forth, and entered into the boat; and that night they took +nothing. But when day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach: yet +the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. + +Jesus therefore saith unto them, "Children, have ye aught to eat?" + +They answered him, "No." + +And he said unto them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and +ye shall find." + +They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the +multitude of fishes. + +That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, "It is the +Lord." So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his coat +about him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea. + +But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from +the land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net full of +fishes. + +So when they got out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, and +fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto them, "Bring of the fish +which ye have now taken." + +Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to land, full of great +fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and for all there were so many, +the net was not rent. + +Jesus saith unto them, "Come and break your fast." + +And none of the disciples durst inquire of him, "Who art thou?" knowing +that it was the Lord. + +Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, and the fish likewise. + +This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, +after that he was risen from the dead. + +So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, "Simon, +son of John, lovest thou me more than these?" + +He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee." + +He saith unto him, "Feed my lambs." + +He saith unto him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, lovest thou +me?" + +He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee." + +He saith unto him, "Tend my sheep." + +He saith unto him the third time, "Simon, son of John, lovest thou me?" + +Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, "Lovest thou +me?" And he said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest +that I love thee." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When +thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest; +but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another +shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not." + +Now this he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should glorify +God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, "Follow me." + +Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who +also leaned back on his breast at the supper, and said, "Lord, who is he +that betrayeth thee?" Peter therefore seeing him saith to Jesus, "Lord, +and what shall this man do?" + +Jesus saith unto him, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that +to thee? Follow thou me." + +This saying therefore went forth among the brethren, that that disciple +should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, that he should not die, +but, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE ELEVEN ON THE MOUNTAIN. + +The eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus +had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but some +doubted. And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, "All +authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye +therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the +name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them +to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you +always, even unto the end of the world." + + +THE LAST APPEARANCE AND ASCENSION. + +And he said unto them, "These are my words which I spake unto you, while I +was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are +written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning +me." + +Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures; +and he said unto them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should +suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day; and that repentance +and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the +nations, beginning from Jerusalem. Ye are witnesses of these things. And +behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in +the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high." + +And he led them out until they were over against Bethany: and he lifted +up his hands, and blessed them. + +And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was +carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to +Jerusalem with great joy: and were continually in the temple, blessing God. + + * * * * * + +MANY OTHER SIGNS THEREFORE DID JESUS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DISCIPLES, +WHICH ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK: BUT THESE ARE WRITTEN, THAT YE MAY +BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD; AND THAT BELIEVING YE +MAY HAVE LIFE IN HIS NAME. + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: + + +* p. 11: Replaced the word "Caesar" with "Cæsar" located in the phrase +"Tribute to Caesar" to be consistent with other similar spellings. + +* p. 14: Corrected spelling of word "cribes" to "scribes" located in the +phrase "But woe unto you, cribes". + +* p. 23: Added missing closing quotation after the word "hour" located +in the phrase "not the day nor the hour". + +* p. 24: Added missing closing quotation after the word "teeth" located +in the phrase "and the gnashing of teeth". + +* p. 34: Corrected spelling of word "m" to "me" located in the phrase +"If a man abide not in m". + +* p. 43: Corrected spelling of word "ever" to "even" located in the +phrase "I ever taught in synagogues".] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of His Last Week, by +William E. 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Barton and Theodore G. Soares and Sydney Strong + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: His Last Week + The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus + +Author: William E. Barton + Theodore G. Soares + Sydney Strong + +Release Date: November 29, 2009 [EBook #30561] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS LAST WEEK *** + + + + +Produced by Larry B. Harrison and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<h1>His Last Week</h1> + +<h2>THE STORY OF THE PASSION AND<br /> +RESURRECTION OF JESUS</h2> + +<h3>IN THE WORDS OF THE FOUR GOSPELS</h3> + +<h5>PREPARED BY</h5> +<h4>WILLIAM E. BARTON, THEODORE G. SOARES<br /> +SYDNEY STRONG</h4> + +<h3>HOPE PUBLISHING COMPANY</h3> +<h4>CHICAGO</h4> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> +<h2>PREFACE.</h2> + +<h5>ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND.</h5> + +<p>The evangelists have devoted one-third of the Gospel +record to our Lord's Passion and Resurrection. A comparison +of the four narratives clearly indicates the order +of events upon the several days of the Holy Week. +The devotional reading of the story is a most natural and +helpful observance of the Easter season. As an aid to +such observance this booklet has been prepared. It is the +story, day by day, of the last week in our Lord's earthly +life in the words of the four evangelists, containing all +that they record, but without repetition. Messrs. Thomas +Nelson and Sons have generously co-operated in permitting +the use of the best translation.</p> + +<p>Originally planned for the churches of all denominations +in a single community, the booklet has proved a +blessing to many thousands of Christians. May this new +edition help in the fulfillment of the great purpose which +the Gospel epilogue expresses.</p> + +<div class="fr"> +<p><span class="smcap">copyright,</span> 1905, <span class="smcap">by the oak park pastors' union. +the text of the american standard revised bible, +copyright</span> 1901, <span class="smcap">by thomas nelson and sons, is used +by special arrangement and with their permission.</span></p> +</div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p> +<h1>HIS LAST WEEK</h1> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>GOING UP TO JERUSALEM.</h2> + +<p>And it came to pass when the days were well nigh +come that Jesus should be received up, he stedfastly set +his face to go to Jerusalem. And he departed from Galilee, +and passed through the borders of Samaria and +Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the +Jordan. And great multitudes followed him, and he +healed them there.</p> + +<p>And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; +and Jesus was going before them: and they were amazed; +and they that followed were afraid.</p> + +<p>And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them +the things that were to happen unto them, saying, "Behold, +we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall +be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes; and +they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him +unto the Gentiles; and they shall mock him, and shall +spit upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him; +and after three days he shall rise again."</p> + +<p>Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto +his fellow-disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die +with him."</p> + +<p>And he entered and passed through Jericho and went +on before, going up to Jerusalem.</p> + +<p>Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many +went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, +to purify themselves. They sought therefore for +Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in the +temple, "What think ye? That he will not come to the +feast?"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given +commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he +should show it, that they might take him.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Feast at Bethany.</span></h3> + +<p>Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to +Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from +the dead. So they made him a supper there in the house +of Simon the leper; and Martha served: but Lazarus +was one of them that sat at meat with him. Mary +therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very +precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his +feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the +odor of the ointment.</p> + +<p>But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should +betray him, saith, "Why was not this ointment sold for +three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?"</p> + +<p>Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; +but because he was a thief, and having the bag took +away what was put therein.</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore said, "Suffer her to keep it against the +day of my burying. For the poor ye have always with +you; but me ye have not always. She hath done what +she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for +the burying. And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever +the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, +that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken +of for a memorial of her."</p> + +<p>The common people therefore of the Jews learned that +he was there: and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, +but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had +raised from the dead. But the chief priests took counsel +that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that +by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and +believed on Jesus.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> +<h2>PALM SUNDAY—THE DAY OF TRIUMPH.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Triumphal Entry.</span></h3> + +<p>On the morrow when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, +unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he +sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, "Go +your way into the village that is over against you: and +straightway as ye enter into it, ye shall find a colt tied, +whereon no man ever yet sat; loose him, and bring him. +And if any one say unto you, 'Why do ye this?' say ye, +'The Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will +send him back hither.'"</p> + +<p>Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled, +which was spoken through the prophet, saying,</p> + +<div class="verse"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Tell ye the daughter of Zion,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Behold, thy King cometh unto thee,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Meek, and riding upon an ass,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And upon a colt the foal of an ass."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>And they went away, and found a colt tied at the +door without in the open street: and they loose him. +And certain of them that stood there said unto them, +"What do ye, loosing the colt?" And they said unto +them even as Jesus had said: and they let them go. +And they bring the colt unto Jesus, and cast on him their +garments; and he sat upon him.</p> + +<p>And the most part of the multitude spread their garments +upon the way; and others branches, which +they had cut from the fields. And as he was drawing +nigh, even at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the +whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and +praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works +which they had seen. And they that went before, and +they that followed, cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David; +Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> +Blessed is the kingdom that cometh, the kingdom of +our father David: Hosanna in the highest."</p> + +<p>These things understood not his disciples at the first: +but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that +these things were written of him, and that they had +done these things unto him.</p> + +<p>The multitude, therefore, that was with him when he +called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from +the dead, bare witness. For this cause also the multitude +went and met him, for that they heard that he had +done this sign.</p> + +<p>And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said +unto him, "Teacher, rebuke thy disciples."</p> + +<p>And he answered and said, "I tell you that, if these +shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out."</p> + +<p>And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept +over it, saying, "If thou hadst known in this day, even +thou, the things which belong unto peace! but now +they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come +upon thee, when thine enemies shall cast up a bank +about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on +every side, and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy +children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee +one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the +time of thy visitation."</p> + +<p>And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city +was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"</p> + +<p>And the multitude said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, +from Nazareth of Galilee."</p> + +<p>The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Behold, +how ye prevail nothing; lo, the world is gone +after him."</p> + +<p>And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and +when he had looked round about upon all things, it being +now eventide, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> +<h2>MONDAY—THE DAY OF AUTHORITY.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Cursing of the Fig Tree.</span></h3> + +<p>And on the morrow, when they were come out from +Bethany, he hungered. And seeing a fig tree afar off +having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything +thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but +leaves; for it was not the season of figs. And he answered +and said unto it, "No man eat fruit from thee +henceforward for ever."</p> + +<p>And his disciples heard it.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Cleansing of the Temple.</span></h3> + +<p>And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the +temple, and began to cast out them that sold and them +that bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of +the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the +doves: and he would not suffer that any man should +carry a vessel through the temple. And he taught, and +said unto them, "Is it not written, 'My house shall be +called a house of prayer for all the nations'? but ye +have made it a den of robbers."</p> + +<p>And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; +and he healed them. But when the chief priests and +the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and +the children that were crying in the temple and saying, +"Hosanna to the son of David": they were moved with +indignation, and said unto him, "Hearest thou what +these are saying?"</p> + +<p>And Jesus saith unto them, "Yea: did ye never read, +'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast +perfected praise'?"</p> + +<p>And the chief priests and the scribes and the principal +men of the people sought to destroy him: and they +could not find what they might do; for the people all +hung upon him, listening.</p> + +<p>And he left them, and went forth out of the city to +Bethany, and lodged there.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p> +<h2>TUESDAY—THE DAY OF CONTROVERSY.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Lesson from the Withered Fig Tree.</span></h3> + +<p>And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the +fig tree withered away from the roots. And Peter calling +to remembrance saith unto him, "Rabbi, behold the +fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away."</p> + +<p>And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Have faith in +God. Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto +this mountain, 'Be thou taken up and cast into the sea'; +and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that +what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it. Therefore +I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and +ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have +them. And whensoever ye stand praying, forgive, if ye +have aught against any one; that your Father also who +is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Challenge of Christ's Authority.</span></h3> + +<p>And they came again to Jerusalem. And all the people +came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear +him. And as he was teaching the people in the temple, +and preaching the gospel, there came upon him the chief +priests and the scribes with the elders; and they spake, +saying unto him, "Tell us: By what authority doest thou +these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?"</p> + +<p>And Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I also will +ask you one question, which if ye tell me, I likewise will +tell you by what authority I do these things. The baptism +of John, whence was it? from heaven or from +men?"</p> + +<p>And they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we +shall say, 'From heaven'; he will say unto us, 'Why did +ye not believe him?' But if we shall say, 'From men';<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +all the people will stone us: for they are persuaded that +John was a prophet."</p> + +<p>And they answered Jesus, and said, "We know not."</p> + +<p>And Jesus said unto them, "Neither tell I you by what +authority I do these things."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Two Sons.</span></h3> + +<p>"But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he +came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work to-day in the +vineyard.' And he answered and said, 'I will not': but +afterward he repented himself, and went. And he came +to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and +said, 'I go, sir': and went not. Which of the two did +the will of his father?"</p> + +<p>They say, "The first."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that the +publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God +before you. For John came unto you in the way of +righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the publicans +and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye saw it, +did not even repent yourselves afterward that ye might +believe him."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Wicked Husbandmen.</span></h3> + +<p>"Hear another parable: There was a man who was +a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge +about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, +and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another +country. And when the season of the fruits drew near, +he sent his servants to the husbandmen to receive his +fruits. And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat +one, and killed another, and stoned another. Again, he +sent other servants more than the first; and they did +unto them in like manner. But afterward he sent unto +them his son, saying, 'They will reverence my son.' But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> +the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among +themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and +take his inheritance.' And they took him, and cast him +forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore +the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he +do unto those husbandmen?"</p> + +<p>They say unto him, "He will miserably destroy those +miserable men, and will let out the vineyard unto other +husbandmen, who shall render him the fruits in their +seasons."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto them, "Did ye never read in the +scriptures,</p> + +<div class="verse"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'The stone which the builders rejected,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The same was made the head of the corner;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">This was from the Lord,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And it is marvellous in our eyes'?<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall +be taken away from you, and shall be given to a nation +bringing forth the fruits thereof. And he that falleth on +this stone shall be broken to pieces; but on whomsoever +it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust."</p> + +<p>And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his +parables, they perceived that he spake of them. And +when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the +multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Marriage of the King's Son.</span></h3> + +<p>And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto +them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is likened unto +a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son, +and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden +to the marriage feast: and they would not come. +Again he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them +that are bidden, 'Behold, I have made ready my dinner; +my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +ready; come to the marriage feast.' But they made +light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, +another to his merchandise; and the rest laid hold on +his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed +them. But the king was wroth; and he sent his armies, +and destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. +Then saith he to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, +but they that were bidden were not worthy. Go ye +therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as +many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.' And +those servants went out into the highways, and gathered +together all as many as they found, both bad and +good; and the wedding was filled with guests. But +when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw +there a man who had not on a wedding-garment: and he +saith unto him, 'Friend, how camest thou in hither not +having a wedding-garment?' And he was speechless. +Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and +foot and cast him out into the outer darkness'; there +shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. For +many are called, but few chosen."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Tribute to <a name="Caesar" id="Caesar"></a> Cæsar.</span></h3> + +<p>Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they +might ensnare him in his talk so as to deliver him up +to the rule and to the authority of the governor. And +they send to him their disciples, with the Herodians, +saying, "Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest +the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: +for thou regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, +What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute +unto Cæsar, or not?"</p> + +<p>But Jesus perceived their craftiness, and said, "Why +make ye trial of me, ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute +money."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> +And they brought unto him a denarius. And he saith +unto them, "Whose is this image and superscription?"</p> + +<p>They say unto him, "Cæsar's."</p> + +<p>Then he saith unto them, "Render therefore unto Cæsar +the things that are Cæsar's; and unto God the things +that are God's."</p> + +<p>And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left him, +and went away.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Question of the Resurrection.</span></h3> + +<p>And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they +that say that there is no resurrection; and they asked +him, saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a +man's brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his +brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his +brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the +first took a wife, and died childless; and the second; +and the third took her; and likewise the seven also left +no children, and died. Afterward the woman also died. +In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them shall +she be? for the seven had her to wife."</p> + +<p>And Jesus said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the +scriptures, nor the power of God. The sons of this world +marry, and are given in marriage; but they that are +accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection +from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in +marriage: for neither can they die any more: for they +are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being +sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, +even Moses showed, in the place concerning the Bush, +when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the +God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he is not the +God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto +him."</p> + +<p>And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished +at his teaching.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> +<h3><span class="smcap">The Greatest Commandment.</span></h3> + +<p>And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning +together, and knowing that he had answered +them well, asked him, "What commandment is the first +of all?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: The +Lord our God, the Lord is one: and thou shalt love the +Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, +and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.' The +second is this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' +There is none other commandment greater than these."</p> + +<p>And the scribe said unto him, "Of a truth, Teacher, +thou hast well said that he is one: and there is none +other but he: and to love him with all the heart, and +with all the understanding and with all the strength, and +to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all +whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices."</p> + +<p>And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he +said unto him, "Thou art not far from the kingdom of +God."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Unanswerable Question of Jesus.</span></h3> + +<p>Now while the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus +asked them a question, saying, "What think ye of the +Christ? whose son is he?"</p> + +<p>They say unto him, "The son of David."</p> + +<p>He saith unto them, "How then doth David in the +Spirit call him Lord, saying,</p> + +<div class="verse"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">'The Lord said unto my Lord,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sit thou on my right hand,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet?'<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?"</p> + +<p>And no one was able to answer him a word, neither +durst any man from that day forth ask him any more +questions.</p> + +<p>And the common people heard him gladly.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p> +<h3><span class="smcap">Discourse of Jesus Against the Scribes and<br /> +Pharisees.</span></h3> + +<p>Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, +saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' +seat: all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these +do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for +they say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens and +grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; +but they themselves will not move them with their finger. +But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they +make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders +of their garments, and love the chief place at feasts, and +the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in +the market-places, and to be called of men, 'Rabbi.' But +be not ye called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, and all +ye are brethren. And call no man your father on the +earth: for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven. +Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, +even the Christ. But he that is greatest among you +shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself +shall be humbled: and whosoever shall humble himself +shall be exalted.</p> + +<p>"But woe unto you, <a name="cribes" id="cribes"></a> scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! +because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: +for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them +that are entering in to enter.</p> + +<p>"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for +ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and +when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son +of hell than yourselves.</p> + +<p>"Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, 'Whosoever +shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever +shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.' +Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +the temple that hath sanctified the gold? And, 'Whosoever +shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever +shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a +debtor.' Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the +altar that sanctifieth the gift? He therefore that sweareth +by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. +And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, +and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that sweareth +by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by +him that sitteth thereon.</p> + +<p>"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for +ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone +the weightier matters of the law, justice, and +mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and +not to have left the other undone. Ye blind guides, that +strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!</p> + +<p>"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for +ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but +within they are full from extortion and excess. Thou +blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and +of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean +also.</p> + +<p>"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for +ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear +beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, +and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear +righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of +hypocrisy and iniquity.</p> + +<p>"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for +ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the +tombs of the righteous, and say, 'If we had been in the +days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers +with them in the blood of the prophets.' Wherefore ye +witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew +the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape +the judgment of hell? Therefore, behold, I send unto +you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them +shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye +scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to +city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood +shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous +unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye +slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say +unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.</p> + +<p>"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and +stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would +I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen +gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would +not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For +I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye +shall say, 'Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the +Lord.'"</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Widow's Two Mites.</span></h3> + +<p>And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld +how the multitude cast money into the treasury: and +many that were rich cast in much. And there came a +poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a +farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and said +unto them, "Verily, I say unto you, This poor widow +cast in more than all they that are casting into the treasury: +for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but +she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her +living."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Gentiles Seek Jesus.</span></h3> + +<p>Now there were certain Greeks among those that went +up to worship at the feast: these therefore came to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, +saying, "Sir, we would see Jesus."</p> + +<p>Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, +and Philip, and they tell Jesus.</p> + +<p>And Jesus answereth them, saying, "The hour is come, +that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I +say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth +and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth +much fruit. He that loveth his life loseth it: and he that +hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. +If any man serve me, let him follow me: and where +I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve +me, him will the Father honor. Now is my soul troubled; +and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. +But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify +thy name."</p> + +<p>There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, +"I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again."</p> + +<p>The multitude, therefore, that stood by, and heard it, +said that it had thundered: others said, "An angel hath +spoken to him."</p> + +<p>Jesus answered and said, "This voice hath not come +for my sake, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment +of this world: now shall the prince of this world be +cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will +draw all men unto myself."</p> + +<p>But this he said, signifying by what manner of death +he should die.</p> + +<p>The multitude therefore answered him, "We have +heard out of the law that the Christ abideth forever: and +how sayest thou, 'The Son of man must be lifted up'? +who is this Son of man?"</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore said unto them, "Yet a little while is +the light among you. Walk while ye have the light that +darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have +the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons +of light."</p> + +<p>These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself +from them.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Jews Reject Jesus.</span></h3> + +<p>But though he had done so many signs before them, +yet they believed not on him: that the word of Isaiah the +prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake,</p> + +<div class="verse"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Lord, who hath believed our report?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah +said again,</p> + +<div class="verse"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And should turn,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And I should heal them."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; +and he spake of him. Nevertheless even of the rulers +many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they +did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: +for they loved the glory that is of men more +than the glory that is of God.</p> + +<p>And Jesus cried and said, "He that believeth on me, +believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he +that beholdeth me beholdeth him that sent me. I am +come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on +me may not abide in the darkness. And if any man hear +my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I +came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He +that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath +one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +shall judge him in the last day. For I spake not from +myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me +a commandment, what I should say, and what I should +speak. And I know that his commandment is life eternal; +the things therefore which I speak, even as the +Father hath said unto me, so I speak."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Discourse Concerning the Future.</span></h3> + +<p>And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going +on his way; and his disciples came to him to show him +the buildings of the temple.</p> + +<p>But he answered and said unto them, "See ye not all +these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not be +left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown +down."</p> + +<p>And as he sat on the mount of Olives over against the +temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked +him privately, "Tell us, when shall these things be? and +what shall be the sign when these things are all about to +be accomplished?"</p> + +<p>And Jesus began to say unto them, "Take heed that +no man lead you astray. Many shall come in my name, +saying, 'I am he,' and shall lead many astray. And when +ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not +troubled: these things must needs come to pass; but +the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, +and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes +in divers places; there shall be famines: these +things are the beginning of the travail.</p> + +<p>"But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver +you up to councils; and in synagogues shall ye be +beaten; and before governors and kings shall ye stand +for my sake, for a testimony unto them. And the gospel +must first be preached unto all the nations. And when +they lead you to judgment, and deliver you up, be not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +anxious beforehand what ye shall speak; but whatsoever +shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye; for +it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. But ye shall +be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, +and friends: and some of you shall they cause to +be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for +my name's sake.</p> + +<p>"And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up +one another, and shall hate one another. And many false +prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. And +because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many +shall wax cold. But he that endureth to the end, the +same shall be saved.</p> + +<p>"But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, +then know that her desolation is at hand. Then let them +that are in Judæa flee unto the mountains; let him that +is on the housetop not go down to take out the things +that are in his house; and let him that is in the field not +return back to take his cloak. For these are days of vengeance, +that all things which are written may be fulfilled.</p> + +<p>"But woe unto them that are with child and to them +that give suck in those days! And pray ye that your +flight be not in the winter, neither on a Sabbath: for +then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from +the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall +be. And except those days had been shortened, no flesh +would have been saved: but for the elect's sake those +days shall be shortened. Then if any man shall say unto +you, 'Lo, here is the Christ,' or, 'Here,' believe it not. +For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and +shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, +if possible, even the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I +have told you all things beforehand. If, therefore, they +shall say unto you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' go<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +not forth: 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' believe +it not. For as the lightning cometh forth from the east +and is seen even unto the west, so shall be the coming +of the Son of man. Wheresoever the carcase is, there +will the eagles be gathered together.</p> + +<p>"But immediately after the tribulation of those days +the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give +her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the +powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall +appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then +shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see +the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with +power and great glory. And he shall send forth his +angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and shall gather +together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost +part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.</p> + +<p>"Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her +branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, +ye know that the summer is nigh; even so ye also, when +ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even +at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation +shall not pass away till all these things be accomplished. +Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall +not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no +one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but +the Father only.</p> + +<p>"But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be +overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares +of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a +snare; for so shall it come upon all them that dwell on +the face of all the earth. But watch ye at every season, +making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all +these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before +the Son of man.</p> + +<p>"And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +of the Son of man. For as in those days which were +before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying +and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered +into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came, and +took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son +of man. Then shall two men be in the field; one is +taken, and one is left; two women shall be grinding at +the mill; one is taken, and one is left. Watch therefore: +for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.</p> + +<p>"But know this, that if the master of the house had +known in what watch the thief was coming, he would +have watched, and would not have suffered his house to +be broken through. Therefore be ye also ready; for in +an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.</p> + +<p>"Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when +the time is. It is as when a man, sojourning in another +country, having left his house, and given authority to +his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the +porter to watch. Watch therefore: for ye know not +when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or +at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning; lest +coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say +unto you I say unto all, Watch.</p> + +<p>"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the +lord hath set over his household, to give them their food +in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord +when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto +you, that he will set him over all that he hath. But if +that evil servant shall say in his heart, 'My lord tarrieth'; +and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat +and drink with the drunken; the lord of that servant +shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an +hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, +and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall +be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> +<h3><span class="smcap">The Parable of the Ten Virgins.</span></h3> + +<p>"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto +ten virgins, who took their lamps and went forth to +meet the bridegroom. And five of them were foolish, and +five were wise. For the foolish, when they took their +lamps, took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in +their vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom +tarried, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight +there is a cry, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye +forth to meet him.' Then all those virgins arose, and +trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, +'Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.' But +the wise answered, saying, 'Peradventure there will not +be enough for us and you: go ye rather to them that +sell, and buy for yourselves.'</p> + +<p>"And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom +came; and they that were ready went in with him to +the marriage feast: and the door was shut. Afterward +came also the other virgins, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open +to us.' But he answered and said, 'Verily I say unto you, +I know you not.'</p> + +<p>"Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the <a name="hour" id="hour"></a> +hour."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Parable of the Talents.</span></h3> + +<p>"For it is as when a man, going into another country, +called his own servants, and delivered unto them his +goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another +two, to another one; to each according to his several +ability; and he went on his journey. Straightway he +that received the five talents went and traded with them, +and made other five talents. In like manner he also that +received the two gained other two. But he that received<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +the one went away and digged in the earth, and hid his +lord's money.</p> + +<p>"Now after a long time the lord of these servants cometh, +and maketh a reckoning with them. And he that received +the five talents came and brought other five talents, +saying, 'Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: lo, +I have gained other five talents.' His lord said unto +him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant: thou +hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over +many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.'</p> + +<p>"And he also that received the two talents came and +said, 'Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: lo, I +have gained other two talents.'</p> + +<p>"His lord said unto him, 'Well done, good and faithful +servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, +I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the +joy of thy lord.'</p> + +<p>"And he also that had received the one talent came +and said, 'Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, +reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering where +thou didst not scatter; and I was afraid, and went away +and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.'</p> + +<p>"But his lord answered and said unto him, 'Thou +wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap +where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter; +thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the +bankers, and at my coming I should have received back +mine own with interest. Take ye away therefore the +talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the +ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, +and he shall have abundance; but from him that hath +not, even that which he hath shall be taken away. And +cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: +there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of <a name="teeth" id="teeth"></a> +teeth.'"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> +<h3><span class="smcap">The Judgment Scene.</span></h3> + +<p>"But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and +all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne +of his glory: and before him shall be gathered all the +nations: and he shall separate them one from another, +as the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; +and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats +on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his +right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the +kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the +world: for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was +thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye +took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and +ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.'</p> + +<p>"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, 'Lord, +when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and +gave thee drink? And when saw we thee a stranger, +and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And +when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?' +And the King shall answer and say unto them, 'Verily I +say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these +my children, even these least, ye did it unto me.'</p> + +<p>"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, +'Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is +prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry, +and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave +me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; +naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and +ye visited me not.' Then shall they also answer, saying, +'Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, +or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto +thee?' Then shall he answer them, saying, 'Verily I say +unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these +least, ye did it not unto me.' And these shall go away<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> +into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal +life."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Conspiracy Against Jesus.</span></h3> + +<p>And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these +words, he said unto his disciples, "Ye know that after +two days the passover cometh, and the Son of man is +delivered up to be crucified."</p> + +<p>Then were gathered together the chief priests, the +elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, +who was called Caiaphas; and they took counsel together +that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him. But +they said, "Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise +among the people."</p> + +<p>And Satan entered into Judas, who was called Iscariot, +being of the number of the twelve. And he went away +and communed with the chief priests and captains, how +he might deliver him unto them. And they were glad, +and they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. And +from that time he sought opportunity to deliver him unto +them in the absence of the multitude.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>WEDNESDAY—THE DAY OF RETIREMENT.</h2> + +<p>[There is no record of the events of this day. Jesus +spent it in retirement, almost certainly in the home of +his friends at Bethany.]</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></p> +<h2>THURSDAY—THE DAY OF FELLOWSHIP.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Preparation for the Passover.</span></h3> + +<p>And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they +sacrificed the passover, his disciples say unto him, "Where +wilt thou that we go and make ready that thou mayest +eat the passover?"</p> + +<p>And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto +them, "Go into the city, and there shall meet you a man +bearing a pitcher of water; follow him; and wheresoever +he shall enter in, say to the master of the house, +'The Teacher saith, My time is at hand. Where is my +guest-chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my +disciples?' And he will himself show you a large upper +room furnished and ready: and there make ready for +us."</p> + +<p>And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, +and found as he had said unto them: and they made +ready the passover.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Strife Among the Disciples.</span></h3> + +<p>And when it was evening he cometh with the twelve. +And there arose also a contention among them, which of +them was accounted to be greatest. And he said unto +them, "The kings of the Gentiles have lordship over +them; and they that have authority over them are called +Benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is the +greater among you, let him become as the younger: and +he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For which is +greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Is not +he that sitteth at meat? But I am in the midst of you +as he that serveth. But ye are they that have continued +with me in my temptations; and I appoint unto you a +kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me, that ye<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span> +may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and ye +shall sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Jesus Washing the Disciples' Feet.</span></h3> + +<p>Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing +that his hour was come that he should depart out of this +world unto the Father, having loved his own that were +in the world, he loved them unto the end.</p> + +<p>And during supper, the devil having already put into +the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, +Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into +his hands, and that he came forth from God, and goeth +unto God, riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments; +and he took a towel, and girded himself. Then +he poureth water into the basin, and began to wash the +disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith +he was girded.</p> + +<p>So he cometh to Simon Peter. He saith unto him, +"Lord, dost thou wash my feet?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered and said unto him, "What I do thou +knowest not now; but thou shalt understand hereafter."</p> + +<p>Peter saith unto him, "Thou shalt never wash my +feet."</p> + +<p>Jesus answered him, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no +part with me."</p> + +<p>Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, not my feet only, +but also my hands and my head."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith to him, "He that is bathed needeth not +save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye +are clean, but not all." For he knew him that should +betray him; therefore said he, "Ye are not all clean."</p> + +<p>So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, +and sat down again, he said unto them, "Know ye +what I have done to you? Ye call me Teacher, and +Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also +ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you +an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you. +Verily, verily, I say unto you, A servant is not greater +than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he +that sent him. If ye know these things, blessed are ye +if ye do them.</p> + +<p>"I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: +but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth +my bread lifted up his heel against me. From henceforth +I tell you before it come to pass, that, when it is +come to pass, ye may believe that I am he. Verily, verily, +I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send +receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that +sent me."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Betrayer Pointed Out.</span></h3> + +<p>When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the +spirit, and testified, and said, "Verily, verily, I say unto +you, that one of you shall betray me."</p> + +<p>The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom +he spake. And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began +to say unto him every one, "Is it I, Lord?"</p> + +<p>And he answered and said, "He that dipped his hand +with me in the dish, the same shall betray me. The Son +of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto +that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! +Good were it for that man if he had not been born."</p> + +<p>And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, "Is +it I, Rabbi?"</p> + +<p>He saith unto him, "Thou hast said."</p> + +<p>There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one +of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore +beckoneth to him, and saith unto him, "Tell us who +it is of whom he speaketh."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, saith +unto him, "Lord, who is it?"</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore answereth, "He it is, for whom I shall +dip the sop, and give it him."</p> + +<p>So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth +it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. And after the +sop, then entered Satan into him.</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore saith unto him, "What thou doest, do +quickly."</p> + +<p>Now no man at the table knew for what intent he +spake this unto him. For some thought because Judas +had the bag, that Jesus said unto him, "Buy what things +we have need of for the feast," or that he should give +something to the poor. He then having received the sop +went out straightway: and it was night.</p> + +<p>When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, "Now +is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him; +and God shall glorify him in himself, and straightway +shall he glorify him."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Lord's Supper.</span></h3> + +<p>And he said unto them, "With desire I have desired to +eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto +you, I shall not eat it until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom +of God."</p> + +<p>And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he +brake it, and gave to them, saying, "This is my body; +which is given for you; this do in remembrance of me."</p> + +<p>And he took a cup, in like manner after supper, and +gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "Drink ye all of +it; for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is +poured out for you, for many, unto remission of sins. +Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say unto +you, I shall not drink from henceforth of the fruit of the +vine, until the Kingdom of God shall come."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p> +<h3><span class="smcap">The Farewell Conversation.</span></h3> + +<p>"Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall +seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, 'Whither I go, ye +cannot come,' so now I say unto you. A new commandment +I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as +I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By +this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye +have love one to another."</p> + +<p>Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, whither goest +thou?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered, "Whither I go, thou canst not follow +me now; but thou shalt follow afterwards."</p> + +<p>And Jesus saith unto them, "All ye shall be offended: +for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep +shall be scattered abroad. Howbeit, after I am raised up, +I will go before you into Galilee."</p> + +<p>But Peter said unto him, "Although all shall be offended, +yet will not I."</p> + +<p>And Jesus saith unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, +that thou to-day, even this night, before the cock crow +twice, shalt deny me thrice. Simon, Simon, behold Satan +asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat: but +I make supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not: +and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish +thy brethren."</p> + +<p>But he spake vehemently, "If I must die with thee, I +will not deny thee." And in like manner also said they +all.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>And he said unto them, "When I sent you forth without +purse, and wallet, and shoes, lacked ye anything?"</p> + +<p>And they said, "Nothing."</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, "But now, he that hath a +purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet; and he that +hath none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword. For<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +I say unto you, that this which is written must be fulfilled +in me, 'And he was reckoned with transgressors': +for that which concerneth me hath fulfillment."</p> + +<p>And they said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords."</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, "It is enough."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>"Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe +also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions; +if it were not so, I would have told you; for I +go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare +a place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto +myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And +whither I go, ye know the way."</p> + +<p>Thomas saith unto him, "Lord, we know not whither +thou goest; how know we the way?"</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, and the truth, and +the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me. If +ye had known me, ye would have known my Father +also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him."</p> + +<p>Philip saith unto him, "Lord, show us the Father, and +it sufficeth us."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto him, "Have I been so long time with +you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? He that hath +seen me hath seen the Father; how sayest thou, 'Show +us the Father'? Believest thou not that I am in the +Father, and the Father in me? The words that I say +unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding +in me doeth his works. Believe me that I am in +the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me +for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, +He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he +do also: and greater works than these shall he do; because +I go unto the Father. And whatsoever ye shall +ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be +glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span> +name, that will I do. If ye love me, ye will keep my +commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he +shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with +you for ever, even the Spirit of truth: whom the world +cannot receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth +him: ye know him, for he abideth with you, and +shall be in you. I will not leave you desolate: I come +unto you.</p> + +<p>"Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no +more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live +also. In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, +and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, +and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he +that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will +love him, and will manifest myself unto him."</p> + +<p>Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, "Lord, what is +come to pass that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and +not unto the world?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered and said unto him, "If a man love me, +he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and +we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. +He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the +word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who +sent me.</p> + +<p>"These things have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding +with you. But the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, +whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach +you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I +said unto you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give +unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let +not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. Ye +heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto +you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I +go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.</p> + +<p>"And now I have told you before it come to pass,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe. I will no +more speak much with you, for the prince of the world +cometh: and he hath nothing in me; but that the world +may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave +me commandment, even so I do."</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. +Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh it +away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he cleanseth +it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean +because of the word which I have spoken unto you. +Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear +fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can +ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the +branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same +beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing. +If a man abide not in <a name="m" id="m"></a> me, he is cast forth as a +branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast +them into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in +me, and my words abide in you, ask whatsoever ye will, +and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, +that ye bear much fruit: and so shall ye be my +disciples. Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have +loved you: abide ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, +ye shall abide in my love; even as I have +kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.</p> + +<p>"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy +may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. This +is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I +have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that +a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my +friends, if ye do the things which I command you. No +longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth +not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; +for all things that I heard from my Father I have made<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +known unto you. Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, +and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and +that your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall +ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. +These things I command you, that ye may love one another. +If the world hate you, ye know that it hath +hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, +the world would love its own: but because ye are not +of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore +the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said +unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If +they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they +kept my word, they will keep yours also. But all these +things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because +they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and +spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they +have no excuse for their sin. He that hateth me hateth +my Father also. If I had not done among them the +works which none other did, they had not had sin: but +now have they both seen and hated me and my Father. +But this cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled +that is written in their law, 'They hated me without a +cause.' But when the Comforter is come, whom I will +send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, +which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness +of me: and ye also bear witness, because ye have been +with me from the beginning.</p> + +<p>"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should +not be caused to stumble. They shall put you out of the +synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth +you shall think that he offereth service unto God. And +these things will they do, because they have not known +the Father, nor me. But these things have I spoken unto +you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember +them, how that I told you. And these things I said not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +unto you from the beginning, because I was with you. +But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you +asketh me, 'Whither goest thou?' But because I have +spoken these things unto you, sorrow hath filled your +heart. Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient +for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter +will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send +him unto you. And he, when he is come, will convict the +world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: +of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteousness, +because I go to the Father, and ye behold me +no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world +hath been judged. I have yet many things to say unto +you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, +the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all +the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but +what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: +and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. +He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall +declare it unto you. All things whatsoever the Father +hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, +and shall declare it unto you. A little while, and ye behold +me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall +see me."</p> + +<p>Some of his disciples therefore said one to another, +"What is this that he saith unto us, 'A little while, and +ye behold me not; and again a little while, and ye shall +see me': and 'Because I go to the Father'?"</p> + +<p>They said therefore, "What is this that he saith, 'A +little while'? We know not what he saith."</p> + +<p>Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and +he said unto them, "Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning +this, that I said, 'A little while, and ye behold +me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see me'? +Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> +lament, but the world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, +but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. A woman +when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is +come: but when she is delivered of the child she remembereth +no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is +born into the world. And ye therefore now have sorrow: +but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, +and your joy no one taketh away from you. And in that +day ye shall ask me no question. Verily, verily, I say +unto you, If ye shall ask anything of the Father, he will +give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing +in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy +may be made full.</p> + +<p>"These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: +the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto +you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the +Father. In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say +not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; for +the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, +and have believed that I came forth from the Father. I +came out from the Father, and am come into the world; +again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father."</p> + +<p>His disciples say, "Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and +speakest no dark saying. Now know we that thou knowest +all things, and needest not that any man should ask +thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from +God."</p> + +<p>Jesus answered them, "Do ye now believe? Behold, +the hour cometh, yea, is come, that ye shall be scattered, +every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet +I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These +things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have +peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good +cheer: I have overcome the world."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> +<h3><span class="smcap">The Intercessory Prayer.</span></h3> + +<p>These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to +heaven, he said, "Father, the hour is come; glorify thy +Son, that the Son may glorify thee: even as thou gavest +him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast +given him, he should give eternal life. And this is life +eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, +and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ. I +glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work +which thou hast given me to do. And now, Father, +glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which +I had with thee before the world was. I manifested thy +name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the +world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; +and they have kept thy word. Now they know that all +things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: +for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto +them; and they received them, and knew of a truth that +I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst +send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but +for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: +and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are +mine: and I am glorified in them. And I am no more +in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to +thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou +hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are. +While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which +thou hast given me; and I guarded them, and not one +of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the +scripture might be fulfilled. But now I come to thee; +and these things I speak in the world, that they may have +my joy made full in themselves. I have given them thy +word, and the world hated them, because they are not of +the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> +that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that +thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. They are +not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify +them in the truth: thy word is truth. As thou didst +send me into the world, even so sent I them into the +world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they +themselves also may be sanctified in truth. Neither for +these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on +me through their word; that they may all be one; even +as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also +may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst +send me. And the glory which thou hast given me I have +given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are +one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected +into one; that the world may know that thou +didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me. +Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me +be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, +which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before +the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the +world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew +that thou didst send me; and I made known unto them +thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith +thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them."</p> + +<p>And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into +the mount of Olives.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> +<h2>FRIDAY—THE DAY OF SUFFERING.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Agony in Gethsemane.</span></h3> + +<p>And they come unto a place which was named Gethsemane: +and he saith unto his disciples, "Sit ye here, +while I pray."</p> + +<p>And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, +and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled. And +he saith unto them, "My soul is exceeding sorrowful +even unto death: abide ye here, and watch."</p> + +<p>And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, +and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass +away from him.</p> + +<p>And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible unto +thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I +will, but what thou wilt."</p> + +<p>And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, +strengthening him.</p> + +<p>And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly; and +his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling +down upon the ground.</p> + +<p>And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto +the disciples, and found them sleeping for sorrow, and +said unto Peter, "Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest thou +not watch one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not +into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh +is weak."</p> + +<p>Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, +"My Father, if this cannot pass away, except I drink it, +thy will be done."</p> + +<p>And he came again and found them sleeping, for their +eyes were heavy. And he left them again, and went +away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.</p> + +<p>Then cometh he to the disciples, and saith unto them,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span> +"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.</p> + +<p>"Arise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that betrayeth +me."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Betrayal and Arrest.</span></h3> + +<p>And straightway, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, +one of the twelve, and with him a multitude with swords +and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and +the elders.</p> + +<p>Now he that betrayed him had given them a token, +saying, "Whomsoever I shall kiss, that is he; take him, +and lead him away safely." And when he was come, +straightway he came to him, and saith, "Rabbi," and +kissed him.</p> + +<p>But Jesus said unto him, "Judas, betrayest thou the +Son of man with a kiss?"</p> + +<p>Jesus, therefore, knowing all the things that were +coming upon him, went forth, and saith unto them, +"Whom seek ye?"</p> + +<p>They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto them, "I am he."</p> + +<p>And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with +them. When therefore he said unto them, "I am he," +they went backward, and fell to the ground.</p> + +<p>Again therefore he asked them, "Whom seek ye?"</p> + +<p>And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth."</p> + +<p>Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he; if therefore +ye seek me, let these go their way": that the word +might be fulfilled which he spake, "Of those whom thou +hast given me I lost not one."</p> + +<p>And when they that were about him saw what would +follow, they said, "Lord, shall we smite with the sword?"</p> + +<p>Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> +struck the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. +Now the servant's name was Malchus.</p> + +<p>But Jesus answered and said, "Suffer ye them thus +far." And he touched his ear, and healed him.</p> + +<p>Then saith Jesus unto Peter, "Put up again thy sword +into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish +with the sword. Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech +my Father and he shall even now send me more than +twelve legions of angels? How then should the scriptures +be fulfilled, that thus it must be? The cup which the +Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?"</p> + +<p>And Jesus said unto the chief priests and captains of +the temple, and elders, that were come against him, "Are +ye come out as against a robber, with swords and +staves? When I was daily with you in the temple, ye +stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is +your hour, and the power of darkness."</p> + +<p>Then all the disciples left him, and fled.</p> + +<p>And a certain young man followed with him, having a +linen cloth cast about him, over his naked body: and +they lay hold on him; but he left the linen cloth, and fled +naked.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Trial Before the Jewish Authorities.</span></h3> + +<p>So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of +the Jews, seized Jesus and bound him, and led him to +Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, who +was high priest that year. Now Caiaphas was he that +gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one +man should die for the people.</p> + +<p>And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another +disciple. Now that disciple was known unto the high +priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the +high priest; but Peter was standing at the door without. +So the other disciple, who was known unto the high<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> +priest, went out and spake unto her that kept the door, +and brought in Peter.</p> + +<p>The maid therefore that kept the door saith unto +Peter, "Art thou also one of this man's disciples?"</p> + +<p>He saith, "I am not."</p> + +<p>Now the servants and the officers were standing there, +having made a fire of coals; for it was cold; and they +were warming themselves; and Peter also was with them +standing and warming himself.</p> + +<p>The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, +and of his teaching. Jesus answered him, "I have spoken +openly to the world; I <a name="ever" id="ever"></a> even taught in synagogues, and +in the temple, where all the Jews come together; and in +secret spake I nothing. Why askest thou me? Ask them +that have heard me, what I spake unto them: behold, +these know the things which I said."</p> + +<p>And when he had said this, one of the officers standing +by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, "Answerest thou +the high priest so?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness +of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?"</p> + +<p>Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the +high priest.</p> + +<p>Now the chief priests and the whole council sought +witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found +it not. For many bare false witness against him, and +their witness agreed not together. And there stood up +certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, "We +heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made +with hands, and in three days I will build another made +without hands." And not even so did their witness agree +together.</p> + +<p>And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked +Jesus, saying, "Answerest thou nothing? What is it which +these witness against thee?"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> +But he held his peace, and answered nothing.</p> + +<p>And the high priest said unto him, "I adjure thee by +the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the +Christ, the Son of God."</p> + +<p>And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of +man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with +the clouds of heaven."</p> + +<p>And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, "What +further need have we of witnesses? Ye have heard the +blasphemy: what think ye?"</p> + +<p>And they all condemned him to be worthy of death.</p> + +<p>Then did they spit in his face and buffet him. And +they blindfolded him and smote him with the palms of +their hands, saying, "Prophesy unto us, thou Christ: who +is he that struck thee?"</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Denial of Peter.</span></h3> + +<p>And as Peter was beneath in the court, there cometh +one of the maids of the high priest; and seeing Peter +warming himself, she looked upon him, and saith, "Thou +also wast with the Nazarene, even Jesus."</p> + +<p>But he denied, saying, "I neither know nor understand +what thou sayest," and he went out into the porch; and +the cock crew.</p> + +<p>And after a little while they that stood by came and +said to Peter, "Of a truth thou also art one of them; for +thy speech maketh thee known."</p> + +<p>Then began he to curse and to swear, "I know not the +man." And straightway the cock crew.</p> + +<p>And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And +Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how that he +said unto him, "Before the cock crow twice thou shalt +deny me thrice."</p> + +<p>And he went out, and wept bitterly.</p> + +<p>And straightway in the morning the chief priests<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> +with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held +a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, +and delivered him up to Pilate, the governor.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Remorse of Judas.</span></h3> + +<p>Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he +was condemned, repented himself, and brought back +the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, +saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent +blood."</p> + +<p>But they said, "What is that to us? See thou to it."</p> + +<p>And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, +and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.</p> + +<p>And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, +"It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is +the price of blood." And they took counsel, and bought +with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore +that field was called, "The field of blood," unto this +day.</p> + +<p>Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah +the prophet, saying, "And they took the thirty pieces +of silver, the price of him that was priced, whom certain +of the children of Israel did price; and they gave them +for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Trial Before Pilate.</span></h3> + +<p>They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Prætorium: +and it was early; and they themselves entered +not into the Prætorium, that they might not be defiled, +but might eat the passover. Pilate therefore went out +unto them, and saith, "What accusation bring ye against +this man?"</p> + +<p>They answered and said unto him, "If this man were<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span> +not an evil-doer, we should not have delivered him up +unto thee."</p> + +<p>Pilate therefore said unto them, "Take him yourselves, +and judge him according to your law."</p> + +<p>The Jews said unto him, "It is not lawful for us to put +any man to death": that the word of Jesus might be +fulfilled, which he spake, signifying by what manner of +death he should die.</p> + +<p>And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this +man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute +to Cæsar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king."</p> + +<p>And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, +he answered nothing. Then saith Pilate unto him, +"Hearest thou not how many things they witness against +thee?" And he gave him no answer, not even to one +word: insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.</p> + +<p>Pilate therefore entered again into the Prætorium, and +called Jesus, and said unto him, "Art thou the King of +the Jews?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered, "Sayest thou this of thyself, or did +others tell it thee concerning me?"</p> + +<p>Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and +the chief priests delivered thee unto me: what hast thou +done?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world: if +my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants +fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but +now is my kingdom not from hence."</p> + +<p>Pilate therefore said unto him, "Art thou a king then?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered, "Thou sayest that I am a king. To +this end have I been born, and to this end am I come into +the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. +Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."</p> + +<p>Pilate saith unto him, "What is truth?"</p> + +<p>And when he had said this, he went out again unto the +Jews, and saith unto them, "I find no crime in him."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +But they were the more urgent, saying, "He stirreth up +the people, teaching throughout all Judæa, and beginning +from Galilee, even unto this place."</p> + +<p>But when Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man +were a Galilæan. And when he knew that he was of +Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him unto Herod, who himself +also was at Jerusalem in these days.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Jesus Before Herod.</span></h3> + +<p>Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad; +for he was of a long time desirous to see him, because +he had heard concerning him; and he hoped to see some +miracle done by him. And he questioned him in many +words; but he answered him nothing. And the chief +priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him. +And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and +mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent +him back to Pilate.</p> + +<p>And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other +that very day: for before they were at enmity between +themselves.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Trial Before Pilate Resumed.</span></h3> + +<p>And Pilate called together the chief priests and the +rulers and the people, and said unto them, "Ye brought +unto me this man, as one that perverteth the people: and +behold, I, having examined him before you, found no fault +in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: +no, nor yet Herod: for he sent him back unto us; and +behold, nothing worthy of death hath been done by him. +I will therefore chastise him, and release him."</p> + +<p>Now at the feast the governor was wont to release unto +the multitude one prisoner, whom they would. And they +had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas, lying bound +with them that had made insurrection, men who in the +insurrection had committed murder. And the multitude<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +went up and began to ask him to do as he was wont to do +unto them.</p> + +<p>And Pilate answered them, saying, "Will ye that I release +unto you the King of the Jews?" For he perceived +that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.</p> + +<p>Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the +multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy +Jesus.</p> + +<p>But the governor answered and said unto them, "Which +of the two will ye that I release unto you?"</p> + +<p>And they said, "Barabbas."</p> + +<p>Pilate saith unto them, "What then shall I do unto +Jesus who is called Christ?"</p> + +<p>They all say, "Let him be crucified."</p> + +<p>And he said unto them a third time, "Why, what evil +hath this man done? I have found no cause of death in +him: I will therefore chastise and release him."</p> + +<p>Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.</p> + +<p>And the soldiers led him away within the court, which +is the Prætorium; and they call together the whole band.</p> + +<p>And they stripped him, and arrayed him in a purple +garment. And they platted a crown of thorns and put it +upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they +kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying: "Hail, +King of the Jews!" and they struck him with their hands. +And they spat upon him, and took the reed and smote +him upon the head.</p> + +<p>And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, "Behold, +I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I +find no crime in him."</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns +and the purple garment. And Pilate saith unto them, "Behold, +the man!"</p> + +<p>When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw +him, they cried out, saying, "Crucify him, crucify him!"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +Pilate saith unto them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify +him: for I find no crime in him."</p> + +<p>The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that +law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son +of God."</p> + +<p>When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the +more afraid; and he entered into the Prætorium again, +and saith unto Jesus, "Whence art thou?"</p> + +<p>But Jesus gave him no answer.</p> + +<p>Pilate therefore saith unto him, "Speakest thou not +unto me? Knowest thou not that I have power to release +thee, and have power to crucify thee?"</p> + +<p>Jesus answered him, "Thou wouldest have no power +against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore +he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin."</p> + +<p>Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews +cried out, saying, "If thou release this man, thou art not +Cæsar's friend: every one that maketh himself a king +speaketh against Cæsar."</p> + +<p>When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought +Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment-seat at a place +called The Pavement, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha.</p> + +<p>And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife +sent unto him, saying, "Have thou nothing to do with +that righteous man; for I have suffered many things +this day in a dream because of him."</p> + +<p>Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was +about the sixth hour. And he saith unto the Jews, "Behold, +your King."</p> + +<p>They therefore cried out, "Away with him, away with +him, crucify him!"</p> + +<p>Pilate saith unto them, "Shall I crucify your King?"</p> + +<p>The chief priests answered, "We have no king but +Cæsar."</p> + +<p>So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span> +rather that a tumult was arising, he took water, and +washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent +of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to it."</p> + +<p>And all the people answered and said, "His blood be +on us, and on our children."</p> + +<p>And they were urgent with loud voices asking that he +might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.</p> + +<p>And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, gave sentence +that what they asked for should be done. And he +released unto them Barabbas, him that for insurrection +and murder had been cast into prison, whom they asked +for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will.</p> + +<p>And when they had mocked him, they took off from +him the robe, and put on him his garments, and led him +away to crucify him.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Sorrowful Way.</span></h3> + +<p>They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing +the cross for himself.</p> + +<p>And as they came out, they laid hold upon one Simon +of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who was +passing by, coming from the country; him they compelled +to go with them, and laid on him the cross, that +he might bear it after Jesus.</p> + +<p>And there followed him a great multitude of the people, +and of women who bewailed and lamented him.</p> + +<p>But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, +weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for +your children. For behold, the days are coming, in which +they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that +never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.' Then +shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; +and to the hills, 'Cover us.' For if they do these things +in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span> +And there were also two others, malefactors, led with +him to be put to death.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Crucifixion.</span></h3> + +<p>And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, +that is to say, The place of a skull, they gave him wine to +drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted it, he +would not drink.</p> + +<p>There they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on +the right hand and the other on the left.</p> + +<p>And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they know +not what they do."</p> + +<p>And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. +And there was written:</p> + +<div class="fr2"> +<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.</span></p> +</div> + +<p>This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place +where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it +was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek.</p> + +<p>The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, +"Write not, 'The King of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I +am King of the Jews.'"</p> + +<p>Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."</p> + +<p>The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, +took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier +a part; and also the coat: now the coat was without +seam, woven from the top throughout. They said therefore +one to another, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for +it, whose it shall be": that the scripture might be fulfilled, +which saith,</p> + +<div class="verse"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"They parted my garments among them,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And upon my vesture did they cast lots."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>These things therefore the soldiers did; and they sat +and watched him there.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span>And the people stood beholding.</p> + +<p>And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their +heads, and saying, "Thou that destroyest the temple, and +buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son +of God, come down from the cross."</p> + +<p>In like manner also, the chief priests mocking him, with +the scribes and elders, said, "He saved others; himself he +cannot save. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come +down from the cross, that we may see and believe. He +trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth +him: for he said, I am the Son of God."</p> + +<p>And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on +him, saying, "Art not thou the Christ? Save thyself +and us."</p> + +<p>But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Dost +thou not even fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? +And we indeed justly; for we receive the +due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing +amiss." And he said, "Jesus, remember me when +thou comest in thy kingdom."</p> + +<p>And he said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, To-day +shalt thou be with me in Paradise."</p> + +<p>But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his +mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, +and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his +mother, and the disciple standing by whom he loved, he +saith unto his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!"</p> + +<p>Then saith he to the disciple, "Behold thy mother!"</p> + +<p>And from that hour the disciple took her unto his owns +home.</p> + +<p>And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness +over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the +ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama +sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My God, my +God, why hast thou forsaken me?"</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> +And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, +said, "Behold, he calleth Elijah."</p> + +<p>After this, Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, +that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, "I thirst."</p> + +<p>There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they +put a sponge full of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought +it to his mouth. When Jesus therefore had received the +vinegar, he said, "It is finished."</p> + +<p>And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into +thy hands I commend my spirit," and having said this, +he gave up the ghost.</p> + +<p>And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two +from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; +and the rocks were rent; and the tombs were opened; +and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were +raised; and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection +they entered into the holy city and appeared +unto many.</p> + +<p>Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching +Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things +that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, "Truly this +was the Son of God."</p> + +<p>And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, +when they beheld the things that were done, returned +smiting their breasts. And many women were there beholding +from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, +ministering unto him; among whom was Mary Magdalene, +and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the +mother of the sons of Zebedee.</p> + +<p>The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that +the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath +(for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked +of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they +might be taken away.</p> + +<p>The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span> +first, and of the other that was crucified with him: but +when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, +they brake not his legs; howbeit one of the soldiers +with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there +came out blood and water. And he that hath seen hath +borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth +that he saith true, that ye also may believe. For these +things came to pass, that the scripture might be fulfilled, +"A bone of him shall not be broken." And again another +scripture saith, "They shall look on him whom they pierced."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Burial.</span></h3> + +<p>And after these things, when even was come, there came +a rich man from Arimathæa, named Joseph, a councillor +of honorable estate, a disciple of Jesus, but secretly +for fear of the Jews; and he boldly went in unto Pilate +and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled +if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, +he asked him whether he had been any while dead. +And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the +corpse to Joseph.</p> + +<p>He came therefore, and took away his body. And there +came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by +night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a +hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus, and +bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of +the Jews is to bury.</p> + +<p>Now in the place where he was crucified there was a +garden: and in the garden a new tomb wherein was never +man yet laid. There then because of the Jews' Preparation +(for the tomb was nigh at hand), they laid Jesus; +and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.</p> + +<p>And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses +beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid. And they +returned, and prepared spices and ointments.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> +<h2>SATURDAY—THE DAY OF SILENCE AND<br /> +SORROW.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Watch at the Tomb.</span></h3> + +<p>Now on the morrow, which is the day after the Preparation, +the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered +together unto Pilate, saying, "Sir, we remember that that +deceiver said while he was yet alive, 'After three days I +rise again.' Command therefore that the sepulchre be +made sure until the third day, lest haply his disciples come +and steal him away, and say unto the people, 'He is risen +from the dead,' and the last error will be worse than the +first."</p> + +<p>Pilate said unto them, "Ye have a guard: go, make it +as sure as ye can."</p> + +<p>So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the +stone, the guard being with them.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></p> +<h2>SUNDAY—THE DAY OF RESURRECTION.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Earthquake.</span></h3> + +<p>And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel +of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled +away the stone, and sat upon it. His appearance was as +lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and for fear of +him the watchers did quake, and became as dead men.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Empty Tomb.</span></h3> + +<p>Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene +early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth +the stone taken away from the tomb. She runneth therefore, +and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple +whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, "They have taken +away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where +they have laid him."</p> + +<p>Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and +they went toward the tomb. And they ran both together: +and the other disciple outran Peter, and came first to the +tomb; and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen +cloths lying; yet entered he not in.</p> + +<p>Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and +entered into the tomb: and he beholdeth the linen cloths +lying, and the napkin, that was upon his head, not lying +with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by itself. +Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, who +came first to the tomb, and he saw, and believed. For as +yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise again +from the dead. So the disciples went away again unto +their own home.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> +<h3><span class="smcap">The Appearance to Mary.</span></h3> + +<p>But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: +so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; +and she beholdeth two angels in white sitting, one at the +head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had +lain. And they say unto her, "Woman, why weepest +thou?"</p> + +<p>She saith unto them, "Because they have taken away +my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him."</p> + +<p>When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and +beholdeth Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou? +Whom seekest thou?"</p> + +<p>She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, +"Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou +hast laid him, and I will take him away."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto her, "Mary."</p> + +<p>She turneth herself, and saith unto him in Hebrew, +"Rabboni"; which is to say, "Teacher."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith to her, "Touch me not; for I am not yet +ascended unto the Father; but go unto my brethren, and +say to them, 'I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, +and my God and your God.'"</p> + +<p>Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, "I +have seen the Lord"; and that he had said these things +unto her.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Appearance to the Women.</span></h3> + +<p>And the women which had come with him out of Galilee +came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they +had prepared. And they were saying among themselves, +"Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the +tomb?" and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled +back: for it was exceeding great. And entering into<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, +arrayed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And +he saith unto them, "Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the +Nazarene, who hath been crucified; he is risen; he is +not here: behold, the place where they laid him! But go, +tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goeth before you into +Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.'"</p> + +<p>And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and +great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.</p> + +<p>And behold, Jesus met them, saying, "All hail." And +they came and took hold of his feet, and worshipped him.</p> + +<p>Then saith Jesus unto them, "Fear not: go tell my +brethren that they depart into Galilee, and there shall they +see me."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">Report of the Watch.</span></h3> + +<p>Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard +came into the city, and told unto the chief priests all the +things that were come to pass. And when they were +assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they +gave much money unto the soldiers, saying, "Say ye, 'His +disciples came by night, and stole him away while we +slept.' And if this come to the governor's ears, we will +persuade him, and rid you of care."</p> + +<p>So they took the money and did as they were taught: +and this saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and +continueth until this day.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Appearance at Emmaus.</span></h3> + +<p>And behold, two of them were going that very day to +a village named Emmaus, which was three-score furlongs +from Jerusalem. And they communed with each other of +all these things which had happened.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, while they communed and questioned +together, that Jesus himself drew near, and went<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span> +with them. But their eyes were holden that they should +not know him.</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, "What communications are +these that ye have one with another, as ye walk?"</p> + +<p>And they stood still, looking sad. And one of them, +named Cleopas, answering, said unto him, "Dost thou alone +sojourn in Jerusalem and not know the things which are +come to pass there in these days?"</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, "What things?"</p> + +<p>And they said unto him, "The things concerning Jesus +the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and +word before God, and all the people: and how the chief +priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned +to death, and crucified him. But we hoped that it was +he who should redeem Israel. Yea, and besides all this, +it is now the third day since these things came to pass. +Moreover, certain women of our company amazed us, having +been early at the tomb; and when they found not +his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a +vision of angels, who said that he was alive. And certain +of them that were with us went to the tomb, and found it +even so as the women had said: but him they saw not."</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, "O foolish men, and slow of +heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Behooved +it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to +enter into his glory?"</p> + +<p>And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, +he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things +concerning himself.</p> + +<p>And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were +going: and he made as though he would go further. And +they constrained him, saying, "Abide with us; for it is +toward evening, and the day is now far spent."</p> + +<p>And he went in to abide with them. And it came to +pass, when he had sat down with them to meat, he took<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> +the bread and blessed; and breaking it, he gave to them. +And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he +vanished out of their sight.</p> + +<p>And they said one to another, "Was not our heart burning +within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he +opened to us the scriptures?"</p> + +<p>And they rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, +and found the eleven gathered together, and them +that were with them, saying, "The Lord is risen indeed, +and hath appeared to Simon." And they rehearsed the +things that happened in the way, and how he was known +of them in the breaking of the bread.</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Appearance to the Disciples.</span></h3> + +<p>When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first +day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the +disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood +in the midst and saith unto them, "Peace be unto you."</p> + +<p>But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed +that they beheld a spirit. And he said unto them, "Why +are ye troubled? and wherefore do questionings arise in +your heart? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: +handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and +bones, as ye behold me having."</p> + +<p>And when he had said this, he showed them his hands +and his feet.</p> + +<p>And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, +he said unto them, "Have ye here anything to eat?"</p> + +<p>And they gave him a piece of broiled fish. And he +took it, and ate before them.</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be unto you: +as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you." And +when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith +unto them, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit: whose soever +sins ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose +soever sins ye retain, they are retained."</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span></p> +<h2>AFTER THE RESURRECTION DAY.</h2> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Appearance to the Disciples and to Thomas.</span></h3> + +<p>But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was +not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples +therefore said unto him, "We have seen the Lord."</p> + +<p>But he said unto them, "Except I shall see in his hands +the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of +the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."</p> + +<p>And after eight days again his disciples were within, and +Thomas with them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, +and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be unto you."</p> + +<p>Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and +see my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and put it into +my side: and be not faithless, but believing."</p> + +<p>Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my +God."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto him, "Because thou hast seen me, thou +hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and +yet have believed."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Appearance to the Seven by the Sea.</span></h3> + +<p>After these things Jesus manifested himself again to +the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested +himself on this wise. There were together Simon Peter, +and Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of Cana in +Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his +disciples.</p> + +<p>Simon Peter saith unto them, "I go a fishing."</p> + +<p>They say unto him, "We also come with thee."</p> + +<p>They went forth, and entered into the boat; and that +night they took nothing. But when day was now breaking,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> +Jesus stood on the beach: yet the disciples knew not +that it was Jesus.</p> + +<p>Jesus therefore saith unto them, "Children, have ye +aught to eat?"</p> + +<p>They answered him, "No."</p> + +<p>And he said unto them, "Cast the net on the right side +of the boat, and ye shall find."</p> + +<p>They cast therefore, and now they were not able to +draw it for the multitude of fishes.</p> + +<p>That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved saith unto +Peter, "It is the Lord." So when Simon Peter heard +that it was the Lord, he girt his coat about him (for he +was naked), and cast himself into the sea.</p> + +<p>But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they +were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits +off), dragging the net full of fishes.</p> + +<p>So when they got out upon the land, they see a fire of +coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith +unto them, "Bring of the fish which ye have now taken."</p> + +<p>Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to +land, full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; +and for all there were so many, the net was not rent.</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto them, "Come and break your fast."</p> + +<p>And none of the disciples durst inquire of him, "Who +art thou?" knowing that it was the Lord.</p> + +<p>Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, +and the fish likewise.</p> + +<p>This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested +to the disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.</p> + +<p>So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon +Peter, "Simon, son of John, lovest thou me more +than these?"</p> + +<p>He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I +love thee."</p> + +<p>He saith unto him, "Feed my lambs."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> +He saith unto him again a second time, "Simon, son of +John, lovest thou me?"</p> + +<p>He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I +love thee."</p> + +<p>He saith unto him, "Tend my sheep."</p> + +<p>He saith unto him the third time, "Simon, son of John, +lovest thou me?"</p> + +<p>Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third +time, "Lovest thou me?" And he said unto him, "Lord, +thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee."</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto him, "Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I +say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst +thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest; but when +thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and +another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou +wouldest not."</p> + +<p>Now this he spake, signifying by what manner of death +he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he +saith unto him, "Follow me."</p> + +<p>Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus +loved following; who also leaned back on his breast at +the supper, and said, "Lord, who is he that betrayeth +thee?" Peter therefore seeing him saith to Jesus, "Lord, +and what shall this man do?"</p> + +<p>Jesus saith unto him, "If I will that he tarry till I come, +what is that to thee? Follow thou me."</p> + +<p>This saying therefore went forth among the brethren, +that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto +him, that he should not die, but, "If I will that he tarry +till I come, what is that to thee?"</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Appearance to the Eleven on the Mountain.</span></h3> + +<p>The eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain +where Jesus had appointed them. And when they +saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. And<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span> +Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, "All authority +hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. +Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, +baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son +and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all +things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with +you always, even unto the end of the world."</p> + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Last Appearance and Ascension.</span></h3> + +<p>And he said unto them, "These are my words which +I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things +must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of +Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me."</p> + +<p>Then opened he their mind, that they might understand +the scriptures; and he said unto them, "Thus it is written, +that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the +dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of +sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, +beginning from Jerusalem. Ye are witnesses of these +things. And behold, I send forth the promise of my +Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be +clothed with power from on high."</p> + +<p>And he led them out until they were over against +Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.</p> + +<p>And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted +from them, and was carried up into heaven. And they +worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great +joy: and were continually in the temple, blessing God.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Many other signs therefore did Jesus in the presence +of the disciples, which are not written in this +book: but these are written, that ye may believe that +Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing +ye may have life in his name.</span></p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="tn"> +<h4>Transcriber's Note:</h4> +<ul class="corrections"> +<li><a href="#Caesar">p. 11</a>: Replaced the word "Caesar" with "Cæsar" located +in the phrase "Tribute to Caesar" to be consistent with other similar spellings.</li> +<li><a href="#cribes">p. 14</a>: Corrected spelling of word "cribes" to "scribes" +located in the phrase "But woe unto you, cribes".</li> +<li><a href="#hour">p. 23</a>: Added missing closing quotation after the word "hour" located in the phrase +"not the day nor the hour".</li> +<li><a href="#teeth">p. 24</a>: Added missing closing quotation after the word "teeth" located in the phrase +"and the gnashing of teeth".</li> +<li><a href="#m">p. 34</a>: Corrected spelling of word "m" to "me" located in the phrase +"If a man abide not in m".</li> +<li><a href="#ever">p. 43</a>: Corrected spelling of word "ever" to "even" located in the phrase +"I ever taught in synagogues".</li> +</ul> +</div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of His Last Week, by +William E. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: His Last Week + The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus + +Author: William E. Barton + Theodore G. Soares + Sydney Strong + +Release Date: November 29, 2009 [EBook #30561] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HIS LAST WEEK *** + + + + +Produced by Larry B. Harrison and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + + His Last Week + + THE STORY OF THE PASSION AND + RESURRECTION OF JESUS + + IN THE WORDS OF THE FOUR GOSPELS + + PREPARED BY + WILLIAM E. BARTON, THEODORE G. SOARES + SYDNEY STRONG + + HOPE PUBLISHING COMPANY + CHICAGO + + + + +PREFACE. + + +ONE HUNDREDTH THOUSAND. + +The evangelists have devoted one-third of the Gospel record to our Lord's +Passion and Resurrection. A comparison of the four narratives clearly +indicates the order of events upon the several days of the Holy Week. The +devotional reading of the story is a most natural and helpful observance of +the Easter season. As an aid to such observance this booklet has been +prepared. It is the story, day by day, of the last week in our Lord's +earthly life in the words of the four evangelists, containing all that they +record, but without repetition. Messrs. Thomas Nelson and Sons have +generously co-operated in permitting the use of the best translation. + +Originally planned for the churches of all denominations in a single +community, the booklet has proved a blessing to many thousands of +Christians. May this new edition help in the fulfillment of the great +purpose which the Gospel epilogue expresses. + + ------------------------------------------------------ + | COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE OAK PARK PASTORS' UNION. | + | THE TEXT OF THE AMERICAN STANDARD REVISED BIBLE, | + | COPYRIGHT 1901, BY THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, IS USED | + | BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT AND WITH THEIR PERMISSION. | + ------------------------------------------------------ + + + + +HIS LAST WEEK + + +GOING UP TO JERUSALEM. + +And it came to pass when the days were well nigh come that Jesus should +be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he +departed from Galilee, and passed through the borders of Samaria and +Galilee, and came into the borders of Judaea beyond the Jordan. And great +multitudes followed him, and he healed them there. + +And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going +before them: and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid. + +And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them the things that +were to happen unto them, saying, "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and +the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the +scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto +the Gentiles; and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall +scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again." + +Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said unto his fellow-disciples, +"Let us also go, that we may die with him." + +And he entered and passed through Jericho and went on before, going up +to Jerusalem. + +Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem +out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves. They +sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in +the temple, "What think ye? That he will not come to the feast?" + +Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if +any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him. + + +THE FEAST AT BETHANY. + +Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus +was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. So they made him a supper there in +the house of Simon the leper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of +them that sat at meat with him. Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of +pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his +feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. + +But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith, +"Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given +to the poor?" + +Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was +a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein. + +Jesus therefore said, "Suffer her to keep it against the day of my +burying. For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not +always. She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body +beforehand for the burying. And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the +gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which +this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her." + +The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and +they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus +also, whom he had raised from the dead. But the chief priests took +counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by +reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. + + + + +PALM SUNDAY--THE DAY OF TRIUMPH. + + +THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. + +On the morrow when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and +Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith +unto them, "Go your way into the village that is over against you: and +straightway as ye enter into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon no man +ever yet sat; loose him, and bring him. And if any one say unto you, 'Why +do ye this?' say ye, 'The Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will +send him back hither.'" + +Now this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken +through the prophet, saying, + + "Tell ye the daughter of Zion, + Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, + Meek, and riding upon an ass, + And upon a colt the foal of an ass." + +And they went away, and found a colt tied at the door without in the +open street: and they loose him. And certain of them that stood there +said unto them, "What do ye, loosing the colt?" And they said unto them +even as Jesus had said: and they let them go. And they bring the colt +unto Jesus, and cast on him their garments; and he sat upon him. + +And the most part of the multitude spread their garments upon the way; +and others branches, which they had cut from the fields. And as he was +drawing nigh, even at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole +multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud +voice for all the mighty works which they had seen. And they that went +before, and they that followed, cried, "Hosanna to the Son of David; +Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Blessed is the kingdom +that cometh, the kingdom of our father David: Hosanna in the highest." + +These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus +was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of +him, and that they had done these things unto him. + +The multitude, therefore, that was with him when he called Lazarus out +of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare witness. For this +cause also the multitude went and met him, for that they heard that he +had done this sign. + +And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, "Teacher, +rebuke thy disciples." + +And he answered and said, "I tell you that, if these shall hold their +peace, the stones will cry out." + +And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, "If thou +hadst known in this day, even thou, the things which belong unto peace! but +now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, when +thine enemies shall cast up a bank about thee, and compass thee round, and +keep thee in on every side, and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy +children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon +another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." + +And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, +"Who is this?" + +And the multitude said, "This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of +Galilee." + +The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Behold, how ye prevail +nothing; lo, the world is gone after him." + +And he entered into Jerusalem, into the temple; and when he had looked +round about upon all things, it being now eventide, he went out unto +Bethany with the twelve. + + + + +MONDAY--THE DAY OF AUTHORITY. + + +THE CURSING OF THE FIG TREE. + +And on the morrow, when they were come out from Bethany, he hungered. +And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might +find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but +leaves; for it was not the season of figs. And he answered and said unto +it, "No man eat fruit from thee henceforward for ever." + +And his disciples heard it. + + +THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE. + +And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the temple, and began to +cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and +overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that +sold the doves: and he would not suffer that any man should carry a +vessel through the temple. And he taught, and said unto them, "Is it not +written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the +nations'? but ye have made it a den of robbers." + +And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed +them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful +things that he did, and the children that were crying in the temple and +saying, "Hosanna to the son of David": they were moved with indignation, +and said unto him, "Hearest thou what these are saying?" + +And Jesus saith unto them, "Yea: did ye never read, 'Out of the mouth of +babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise'?" + +And the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the +people sought to destroy him: and they could not find what they might +do; for the people all hung upon him, listening. + +And he left them, and went forth out of the city to Bethany, and lodged +there. + + + + +TUESDAY--THE DAY OF CONTROVERSY. + + +THE LESSON FROM THE WITHERED FIG TREE. + +And as they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered +away from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, +"Rabbi, behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away." + +And Jesus answering saith unto them, "Have faith in God. Verily I say +unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, 'Be thou taken up +and cast into the sea'; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall +believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it. Therefore +I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe +that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And whensoever ye stand +praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any one; that your Father +also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses." + + +THE CHALLENGE OF CHRIST'S AUTHORITY. + +And they came again to Jerusalem. And all the people came early in the +morning to him in the temple to hear him. And as he was teaching the +people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, there came upon him the +chief priests and the scribes with the elders; and they spake, saying +unto him, "Tell us: By what authority doest thou these things? or who is +he that gave thee this authority?" + +And Jesus answered, and said unto them, "I also will ask you one question, +which if ye tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these +things. The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven or from men?" + +And they reasoned with themselves, saying, "If we shall say, 'From +heaven'; he will say unto us, 'Why did ye not believe him?' But if we +shall say, 'From men'; all the people will stone us: for they are +persuaded that John was a prophet." + +And they answered Jesus, and said, "We know not." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Neither tell I you by what authority I do +these things." + + +THE TWO SONS. + +"But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and +said, 'Son, go work to-day in the vineyard.' And he answered and said, +'I will not': but afterward he repented himself, and went. And he came +to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, 'I go, sir': +and went not. Which of the two did the will of his father?" + +They say, "The first." + +Jesus saith unto them, "Verily I say unto you, that the publicans and +the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came unto +you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not; but the +publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye saw it, did not +even repent yourselves afterward that ye might believe him." + + +THE WICKED HUSBANDMEN. + +"Hear another parable: There was a man who was a householder, who +planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress +in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into +another country. And when the season of the fruits drew near, he sent +his servants to the husbandmen to receive his fruits. And the +husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and +stoned another. Again, he sent other servants more than the first; and +they did unto them in like manner. But afterward he sent unto them his +son, saying, 'They will reverence my son.' But the husbandmen, when +they saw the son, said among themselves, 'This is the heir; come, let +us kill him, and take his inheritance.' And they took him, and cast +him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him. When therefore the lord +of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen?" + +They say unto him, "He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and +will let out the vineyard unto other husbandmen, who shall render him +the fruits in their seasons." + +Jesus saith unto them, "Did ye never read in the scriptures, + + 'The stone which the builders rejected, + The same was made the head of the corner; + This was from the Lord, + And it is marvellous in our eyes'? + +Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken away from +you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. +And he that falleth on this stone shall be broken to pieces; but on +whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust." + +And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they +perceived that he spake of them. And when they sought to lay hold on +him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet. + + +THE MARRIAGE OF THE KING'S SON. + +And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying, "The +kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast +for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to +the marriage feast: and they would not come. Again he sent forth other +servants, saying, Tell them that are bidden, 'Behold, I have made ready my +dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready; come +to the marriage feast.' But they made light of it, and went their ways, one +to his own farm, another to his merchandise; and the rest laid hold on his +servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them. But the king was +wroth; and he sent his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned +their city. Then saith he to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but they +that were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore unto the partings of the +highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.' And +those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as +many as they found, both bad and good; and the wedding was filled with +guests. But when the king came in to behold the guests, he saw there a man +who had not on a wedding-garment: and he saith unto him, 'Friend, how +camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment?' And he was speechless. +Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him +out into the outer darkness'; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing +of teeth. For many are called, but few chosen." + + +TRIBUTE TO CAESAR. + +Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might ensnare him +in his talk so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority +of the governor. And they send to him their disciples, with the +Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that thou art true, and teachest +the way of God in truth, and carest not for any one: for thou +regardest not the person of men. Tell us therefore, What thinkest +thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?" + +But Jesus perceived their craftiness, and said, "Why make ye trial of +me, ye hypocrites? Show me the tribute money." + +And they brought unto him a denarius. And he saith unto them, "Whose is +this image and superscription?" + +They say unto him, "Caesar's." + +Then he saith unto them, "Render therefore unto Caesar the things that +are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." + +And when they heard it, they marvelled, and left him, and went away. + + +THE QUESTION OF THE RESURRECTION. + +And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that +there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying, "Teacher, Moses +wrote unto us, that if a man's brother die, having a wife, and he be +childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto +his brother. There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a +wife, and died childless; and the second; and the third took her; and +likewise the seven also left no children, and died. Afterward the +woman also died. In the resurrection therefore whose wife of them +shall she be? for the seven had her to wife." + +And Jesus said unto them, "Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the +power of God. The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage; but +they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the +resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: for +neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are +sons of God, being sons of the resurrection. But that the dead are raised, +even Moses showed, in the place concerning the Bush, when he calleth the +Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Now he +is not the God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him." + +And when the multitudes heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. + + +THE GREATEST COMMANDMENT. + +And one of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together, and +knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, "What commandment is +the first of all?" + +Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the +Lord is one: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, +and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy +strength.' The second is this, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as +thyself.' There is none other commandment greater than these." + +And the scribe said unto him, "Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said +that he is one: and there is none other but he: and to love him with all +the heart, and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and +to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole +burnt-offerings and sacrifices." + +And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, "Thou +art not far from the kingdom of God." + + +THE UNANSWERABLE QUESTION OF JESUS. + +Now while the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them a +question, saying, "What think ye of the Christ? whose son is he?" + +They say unto him, "The son of David." + +He saith unto them, "How then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, +saying, + + 'The Lord said unto my Lord, + Sit thou on my right hand, + Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet?' + +If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?" + +And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from +that day forth ask him any more questions. + +And the common people heard him gladly. + + +DISCOURSE OF JESUS AGAINST THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES. + +Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying, "The +scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat: all things therefore +whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their +works; for they say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous +to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not +move them with their finger. But all their works they do to be seen of men: +for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their +garments, and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the +synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called of +men, 'Rabbi.' But be not ye called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, and +all ye are brethren. And call no man your father on the earth: for one is +your Father, even he who is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for +one is your master, even the Christ. But he that is greatest among you +shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: +and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. + +"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut +the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, +neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and +land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him +twofold more a son of hell than yourselves. + +"Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, 'Whosoever shall swear by the +temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the +temple, he is a debtor.' Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the +gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? And, 'Whosoever +shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by +the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.' Ye blind: for which is +greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? He therefore +that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. +And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that +dwelleth therein. And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the +throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and +anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, +justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not +to have left the other undone. Ye blind guides, that strain out the +gnat, and swallow the camel! + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the +outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from +extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of +the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto +whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are +full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also +outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of +hypocrisy and iniquity. + +"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the +sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, +and say, 'If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not +have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' Wherefore +ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the +prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye +offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? +Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and +scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them +shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: +that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from +the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of +Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I +say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. + +"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them +that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children +together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye +would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto +you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, 'Blessed is he +that cometh in the name of the Lord.'" + + +THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES. + +And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude +cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And +there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing. +And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, "Verily, I say +unto you, This poor widow cast in more than all they that are casting into +the treasury: for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her +want did cast in all that she had, even all her living." + + +THE GENTILES SEEK JESUS. + +Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the +feast: these therefore came to Philip, who was of Bethsaida of Galilee, +and asked him, saying, "Sir, we would see Jesus." + +Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: Andrew cometh, and Philip, and they +tell Jesus. + +And Jesus answereth them, saying, "The hour is come, that the Son of man +should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of +wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it +die, it beareth much fruit. He that loveth his life loseth it: and he +that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If +any man serve me, let him follow me: and where I am, there shall also my +servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor. Now is my +soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But +for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name." + +There came therefore a voice out of heaven, saying, "I have both +glorified it, and will glorify it again." + +The multitude, therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it had +thundered: others said, "An angel hath spoken to him." + +Jesus answered and said, "This voice hath not come for my sake, but for +your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of +this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will +draw all men unto myself." + +But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die. + +The multitude therefore answered him, "We have heard out of the law that +the Christ abideth forever: and how sayest thou, 'The Son of man must be +lifted up'? who is this Son of man?" + +Jesus therefore said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light among +you. Walk while ye have the light that darkness overtake you not: and he +that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye +have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light." + +These things spake Jesus, and he departed and hid himself from them. + + +THE JEWS REJECT JESUS. + +But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they believed not on +him: that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he +spake, + + "Lord, who hath believed our report? + And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?" + +For this cause they could not believe, for that Isaiah said again, + + "He hath blinded their eyes, and he hardened their heart; + Lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their + heart, + And should turn, + And I should heal them." + +These things said Isaiah, because he saw his glory; and he spake of him. +Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed on him; but because of the +Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should be put out of the +synagogue: for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that +is of God. + +And Jesus cried and said, "He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, +but on him that sent me. And he that beholdeth me beholdeth him that +sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on +me may not abide in the darkness. And if any man hear my sayings, and +keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but +to save the world. He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, +hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge +him in the last day. For I spake not from myself; but the Father that +sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I +should speak. And I know that his commandment is life eternal; the things +therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak." + + +DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE FUTURE. + +And Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way; and his +disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. + +But he answered and said unto them, "See ye not all these things? Verily +I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, +that shall not be thrown down." + +And as he sat on the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and +James and John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when shall +these things be? and what shall be the sign when these things are all +about to be accomplished?" + +And Jesus began to say unto them, "Take heed that no man lead you +astray. Many shall come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and shall lead +many astray. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not +troubled: these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. +For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there +shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these +things are the beginning of the travail. + +"But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to +councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before governors +and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them. And +the gospel must first be preached unto all the nations. And when they +lead you to judgment, and deliver you up, be not anxious beforehand +what ye shall speak; but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, +that speak ye; for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. But +ye shall be delivered up even by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolk, +and friends: and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. And +ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. + +"And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall +hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many +astray. And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many +shall wax cold. But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. + +"But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that her +desolation is at hand. Then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the +mountains; let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the +things that are in his house; and let him that is in the field not +return back to take his cloak. For these are days of vengeance, that all +things which are written may be fulfilled. + +"But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in +those days! And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither +on a Sabbath: for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been +from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be. And +except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: +but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Then if any man +shall say unto you, 'Lo, here is the Christ,' or, 'Here,' believe it +not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall +show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even +the elect. But take ye heed: behold, I have told you all things +beforehand. If, therefore, they shall say unto you, 'Behold, he is in +the wilderness,' go not forth: 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' +believe it not. For as the lightning cometh forth from the east and is +seen even unto the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. +Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. + +"But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be +darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall +fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and +then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall +all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man +coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he +shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and shall +gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part +of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven. + +"Now from the fig tree learn her parable: when her branch is now become +tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh; even +so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at +the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away till +all these things be accomplished. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my +words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not +even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only. + +"But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with +surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come +on you suddenly as a snare; for so shall it come upon all them that +dwell on the face of all the earth. But watch ye at every season, making +supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall +come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. + +"And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man. +For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and +drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered +into the ark, and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all +away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man. Then shall two men be in +the field; one is taken, and one is left; two women shall be grinding at +the mill; one is taken, and one is left. Watch therefore: for ye know not +on what day your Lord cometh. + +"But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch +the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered +his house to be broken through. Therefore be ye also ready; for in an +hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh. + +"Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. It is as +when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given +authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter +to watch. Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house +cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the +morning; lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you +I say unto all, Watch. + +"Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the lord hath set over his +household, to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant, +whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, +that he will set him over all that he hath. But if that evil servant shall +say in his heart, 'My lord tarrieth'; and shall begin to beat his +fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; the lord of that +servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he +knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the +hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth." + + +THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. + +"Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who +took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of +them were foolish, and five were wise. For the foolish, when they took +their lamps, took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their +vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all +slumbered and slept. But at midnight there is a cry, 'Behold, the +bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.' Then all those virgins arose, +and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said unto the wise, 'Give us +of your oil; for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, +saying, 'Peradventure there will not be enough for us and you: go ye +rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.' + +"And while they went away to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that +were ready went in with him to the marriage feast: and the door was +shut. Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open +to us.' But he answered and said, 'Verily I say unto you, I know you not.' + +"Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour." + + +THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. + +"For it is as when a man, going into another country, called his own +servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five +talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several +ability; and he went on his journey. Straightway he that received the five +talents went and traded with them, and made other five talents. In like +manner he also that received the two gained other two. But he that received +the one went away and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. + +"Now after a long time the lord of these servants cometh, and maketh a +reckoning with them. And he that received the five talents came and brought +other five talents, saying, 'Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: +lo, I have gained other five talents.' His lord said unto him, 'Well done, +good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I +will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.' + +"And he also that received the two talents came and said, 'Lord, thou +deliveredst unto me two talents: lo, I have gained other two talents.' + +"His lord said unto him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant: thou +hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; +enter thou into the joy of thy lord.' + +"And he also that had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I +knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, +and gathering where thou didst not scatter; and I was afraid, and went +away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.' + +"But his lord answered and said unto him, 'Thou wicked and slothful +servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did +not scatter; thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, +and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest. Take +ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the +ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have +abundance; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be +taken away. And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer +darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'" + + +THE JUDGMENT SCENE. + +"But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the angels with +him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory: and before him shall be +gathered all the nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as +the shepherd separateth the sheep from the goats; and he shall set the +sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say +unto them on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the +kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was +hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a +stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye +visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.' + +"Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, 'Lord, when saw we thee +hungry, and fed thee? or athirst, and gave thee drink? And when saw we +thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? And when +saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?' And the King shall +answer and say unto them, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it +unto one of these my children, even these least, ye did it unto me.' + +"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 'Depart from me, ye +cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his +angels: for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and +ye gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye +clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.' Then shall +they also answer, saying, 'Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a +stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?' +Then shall he answer them, saying, 'Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye +did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.' And these shall +go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life." + + +THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST JESUS. + +And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, he said +unto his disciples, "Ye know that after two days the passover cometh, +and the Son of man is delivered up to be crucified." + +Then were gathered together the chief priests, the elders of the people, +unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; and they took +counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him. But +they said, "Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among the people." + +And Satan entered into Judas, who was called Iscariot, being of the number +of the twelve. And he went away and communed with the chief priests and +captains, how he might deliver him unto them. And they were glad, and they +weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought +opportunity to deliver him unto them in the absence of the multitude. + + + + +WEDNESDAY--THE DAY OF RETIREMENT. + + +[There is no record of the events of this day. Jesus spent it in +retirement, almost certainly in the home of his friends at Bethany.] + + + + +THURSDAY--THE DAY OF FELLOWSHIP. + + +PREPARATION FOR THE PASSOVER. + +And on the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the +passover, his disciples say unto him, "Where wilt thou that we go and +make ready that thou mayest eat the passover?" + +And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, "Go into the +city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow +him; and wheresoever he shall enter in, say to the master of the house, +'The Teacher saith, My time is at hand. Where is my guest-chamber, where +I shall eat the passover with my disciples?' And he will himself show +you a large upper room furnished and ready: and there make ready for us." + +And the disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he +had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. + + +STRIFE AMONG THE DISCIPLES. + +And when it was evening he cometh with the twelve. And there arose also +a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest. And +he said unto them, "The kings of the Gentiles have lordship over them; +and they that have authority over them are called Benefactors. But ye +shall not be so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as +the younger: and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. For which is +greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Is not he that +sitteth at meat? But I am in the midst of you as he that serveth. But ye +are they that have continued with me in my temptations; and I appoint +unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me, that ye may +eat and drink at my table in my kingdom; and ye shall sit on thrones +judging the twelve tribes of Israel." + + +JESUS WASHING THE DISCIPLES' FEET. + +Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was +come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having +loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end. + +And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas +Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had +given all things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and +goeth unto God, riseth from supper, and layeth aside his garments; and +he took a towel, and girded himself. Then he poureth water into the +basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the +towel wherewith he was girded. + +So he cometh to Simon Peter. He saith unto him, "Lord, dost thou wash my +feet?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "What I do thou knowest not now; but +thou shalt understand hereafter." + +Peter saith unto him, "Thou shalt never wash my feet." + +Jesus answered him, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me." + +Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands +and my head." + +Jesus saith to him, "He that is bathed needeth not save to wash his +feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all." For he +knew him that should betray him; therefore said he, "Ye are not all clean." + +So when he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and sat down +again, he said unto them, "Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me +Teacher, and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, the Lord +and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one +another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye also should do +as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, A servant is not +greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that +sent him. If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them. + +"I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture +may be fulfilled, He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me. +From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to +pass, ye may believe that I am he. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that +receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me +receiveth him that sent me." + + +THE BETRAYER POINTED OUT. + +When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and testified, and +said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me." + +The disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. And +they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to say unto him every one, +"Is it I, Lord?" + +And he answered and said, "He that dipped his hand with me in the dish, +the same shall betray me. The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of +him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! Good +were it for that man if he had not been born." + +And Judas, who betrayed him, answered and said, "Is it I, Rabbi?" + +He saith unto him, "Thou hast said." + +There was at the table reclining in Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, +whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckoneth to him, and saith unto +him, "Tell us who it is of whom he speaketh." + +He leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, saith unto him, "Lord, who +is it?" + +Jesus therefore answereth, "He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and +give it him." + +So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, the son +of Simon Iscariot. And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. + +Jesus therefore saith unto him, "What thou doest, do quickly." + +Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. For +some thought because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said unto him, "Buy +what things we have need of for the feast," or that he should give +something to the poor. He then having received the sop went out +straightway: and it was night. + +When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, "Now is the Son of man +glorified, and God is glorified in him; and God shall glorify him in +himself, and straightway shall he glorify him." + + +THE LORD'S SUPPER. + +And he said unto them, "With desire I have desired to eat this passover +with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I shall not eat it until +it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." + +And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and gave +to them, saying, "This is my body; which is given for you; this do in +remembrance of me." + +And he took a cup, in like manner after supper, and gave thanks, and gave +to them, saying, "Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new +covenant, which is poured out for you, for many, unto remission of sins. +Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say unto you, I shall not +drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the Kingdom of God +shall come." + + +THE FAREWELL CONVERSATION. + +"Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and +as I said unto the Jews, 'Whither I go, ye cannot come,' so now I say unto +you. A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I +have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know +that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." + +Simon Peter saith unto him, "Lord, whither goest thou?" + +Jesus answered, "Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou +shalt follow afterwards." + +And Jesus saith unto them, "All ye shall be offended: for it is written, +I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad. +Howbeit, after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee." + +But Peter said unto him, "Although all shall be offended, yet will not I." + +And Jesus saith unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, that thou to-day, +even this night, before the cock crow twice, shalt deny me thrice. +Simon, Simon, behold Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as +wheat: but I make supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not: and do +thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren." + +But he spake vehemently, "If I must die with thee, I will not deny +thee." And in like manner also said they all. + + * * * * * + +And he said unto them, "When I sent you forth without purse, and wallet, +and shoes, lacked ye anything?" + +And they said, "Nothing." + +And he said unto them, "But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, +and likewise a wallet; and he that hath none, let him sell his cloak, +and buy a sword. For I say unto you, that this which is written must be +fulfilled in me, 'And he was reckoned with transgressors': for that +which concerneth me hath fulfillment." + +And they said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords." + +And he said unto them, "It is enough." + + * * * * * + +"Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. In +my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have +told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a +place for you, I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that +where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go, ye know the way." + +Thomas saith unto him, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest; how know +we the way?" + +Jesus saith unto him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one +cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye would have +known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him." + +Philip saith unto him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou +not know me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; how +sayest thou, 'Show us the Father'? Believest thou not that I am in the +Father, and the Father in me? The words that I say unto you I speak not +from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works. Believe me +that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for +the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth +on me, the works that I do shall he do also: and greater works than +these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. And whatsoever ye shall +ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the +Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, that will I do. If ye love +me, ye will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he +shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever, even +the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot receive; for it beholdeth him +not, neither knoweth him: ye know him, for he abideth with you, and +shall be in you. I will not leave you desolate: I come unto you. + +"Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: +because I live, ye shall live also. In that day ye shall know that I am in +my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments, and +keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved +of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him." + +Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, "Lord, what is come to pass that +thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?" + +Jesus answered and said unto him, "If a man love me, he will keep my +word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make +our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the +word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, while yet abiding with you. But +the Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my +name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all +that I said unto you. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: +not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be +troubled, neither let it be fearful. Ye heard how I said to you, I go +away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, +because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I. + +"And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come +to pass, ye may believe. I will no more speak much with you, for the +prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me; but that the +world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me +commandment, even so I do." + + * * * * * + +"I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me +that beareth not fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth +fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit. Already ye are clean +because of the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in me, and I in +you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the +vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the +branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: +for apart from me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast +forth as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, and cast them +into the fire, and they are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide +in you, ask whatsoever ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my +Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit: and so shall ye be my disciples. +Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my +love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have +kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and +that your joy may be made full. This is my commandment, that ye love +one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than +this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, +if ye do the things which I command you. No longer do I call you +servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have +called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father I have +made known unto you. Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and +appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit +should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, +he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye may love one +another. If the world hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before +it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: +but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, +therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto +you, A servant is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, +they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep +yours also. But all these things will they do unto you for my name's +sake, because they know not him that sent me. If I had not come and +spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no excuse +for their sin. He that hateth me hateth my Father also. If I had not +done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: +but now have they both seen and hated me and my Father. But this +cometh to pass, that the word may be fulfilled that is written in +their law, 'They hated me without a cause.' But when the Comforter is +come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of +truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me: +and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning. + +"These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be caused to +stumble. They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour +cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth +service unto God. And these things will they do, because they have not +known the Father, nor me. But these things have I spoken unto you, +that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told +you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because +I was with you. But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you +asketh me, 'Whither goest thou?' But because I have spoken these +things unto you, sorrow hath filled your heart. Nevertheless I tell +you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not +away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send +him unto you. And he, when he is come, will convict the world in +respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because +they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to the Father, +and ye behold me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this +world hath been judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye +cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, +he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from +himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: +and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come. He shall +glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. +All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that +he taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you. A little while, and +ye behold me no more; and again a little while, and ye shall see me." + +Some of his disciples therefore said one to another, "What is this that +he saith unto us, 'A little while, and ye behold me not; and again a +little while, and ye shall see me': and 'Because I go to the Father'?" + +They said therefore, "What is this that he saith, 'A little while'? We +know not what he saith." + +Jesus perceived that they were desirous to ask him, and he said unto them, +"Do ye inquire among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little +while, and ye behold me not, and again a little while, and ye shall see +me'? Verily, verily, I say unto you, that ye shall weep and lament, but the +world shall rejoice: ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned +into joy. A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is +come: but when she is delivered of the child she remembereth no more the +anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world. And ye therefore +now have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, +and your joy no one taketh away from you. And in that day ye shall ask me +no question. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If ye shall ask anything of +the Father, he will give it you in my name. Hitherto have ye asked nothing +in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be made full. + +"These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, +when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you +plainly of the Father. In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say +not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; for the Father +himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I +came forth from the Father. I came out from the Father, and am come into +the world; again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father." + +His disciples say, "Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no dark +saying. Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any +man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God." + +Jesus answered them, "Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is +come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me +alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me. These things +have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have +tribulation: but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world." + + +THE INTERCESSORY PRAYER. + +These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, +"Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the Son may glorify thee: +even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou +hast given him, he should give eternal life. And this is life eternal, that +they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even +Jesus Christ. I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work +which thou hast given me to do. And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine +own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. I +manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: +thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word. +Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: +for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they +received them, and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they +believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them: I pray not for the +world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: and all +things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in +them. And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come +to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that +they may be one, even as we are. While I was with them, I kept them in thy +name which thou hast given me; and I guarded them, and not one of them +perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. +But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they +may have my joy made full in themselves. I have given them thy word, and +the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not +of the world. I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but +that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, +even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is +truth. As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the +world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may +be sanctified in truth. Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also +that believe on me through their word; that they may all be one; even as +thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that +the world may believe that thou didst send me. And the glory which thou +hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are +one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that +the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou +lovedst me. Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with +me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for +thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the +world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send +me; and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the +love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them." + +And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. + + + + +FRIDAY--THE DAY OF SUFFERING. + + +THE AGONY IN GETHSEMANE. + +And they come unto a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith unto +his disciples, "Sit ye here, while I pray." + +And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly +amazed, and sore troubled. And he saith unto them, "My soul is exceeding +sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch." + +And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, +if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. + +And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove +this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt." + +And there appeared unto him an angel from heaven, strengthening him. + +And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as +it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground. + +And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the disciples, and +found them sleeping for sorrow, and said unto Peter, "Simon, sleepest +thou? Couldest thou not watch one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter +not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." + +Again a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if +this cannot pass away, except I drink it, thy will be done." + +And he came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. +And he left them again, and went away, and prayed a third time, saying +the same words. + +Then cometh he to the 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. + +"Arise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that betrayeth me." + + +THE BETRAYAL AND ARREST. + +And straightway, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, +and with him a multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests +and the scribes and the elders. + +Now he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, "Whomsoever I +shall kiss, that is he; take him, and lead him away safely." And when he +was come, straightway he came to him, and saith, "Rabbi," and kissed him. + +But Jesus said unto him, "Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a +kiss?" + +Jesus, therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went +forth, and saith unto them, "Whom seek ye?" + +They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." + +Jesus saith unto them, "I am he." + +And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. When therefore +he said unto them, "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground. + +Again therefore he asked them, "Whom seek ye?" + +And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." + +Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he; if therefore ye seek me, let +these go their way": that the word might be fulfilled which he spake, +"Of those whom thou hast given me I lost not one." + +And when they that were about him saw what would follow, they said, +"Lord, shall we smite with the sword?" + +Simon Peter therefore having a sword drew it, and struck the high priest's +servant, and cut off his right ear. Now the servant's name was Malchus. + +But Jesus answered and said, "Suffer ye them thus far." And he touched +his ear, and healed him. + +Then saith Jesus unto Peter, "Put up again thy sword into its place: +for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Or +thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father and he shall even now +send me more than twelve legions of angels? How then should the +scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? The cup which the +Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" + +And Jesus said unto the chief priests and captains of the temple, and +elders, that were come against him, "Are ye come out as against a +robber, with swords and staves? When I was daily with you in the +temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your +hour, and the power of darkness." + +Then all the disciples left him, and fled. + +And a certain young man followed with him, having a linen cloth cast +about him, over his naked body: and they lay hold on him; but he left +the linen cloth, and fled naked. + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE THE JEWISH AUTHORITIES. + +So the band and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, +seized Jesus and bound him, and led him to Annas first; for he was +father in law to Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. Now Caiaphas +was he that gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one +man should die for the people. + +And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple. Now that +disciple was known unto the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into +the court of the high priest; but Peter was standing at the door +without. So the other disciple, who was known unto the high priest, +went out and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter. + +The maid therefore that kept the door saith unto Peter, "Art thou also +one of this man's disciples?" + +He saith, "I am not." + +Now the servants and the officers were standing there, having made a +fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming themselves; and +Peter also was with them standing and warming himself. + +The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his +teaching. Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world; I even +taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where all the Jews come together; +and in secret spake I nothing. Why askest thou me? Ask them that have heard +me, what I spake unto them: behold, these know the things which I said." + +And when he had said this, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus +with his hand, saying, "Answerest thou the high priest so?" + +Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; +but if well, why smitest thou me?" + +Annas therefore sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest. + +Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witness against Jesus to +put him to death; and found it not. For many bare false witness against +him, and their witness agreed not together. And there stood up certain, and +bare false witness against him, saying, "We heard him say, I will destroy +this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another +made without hands." And not even so did their witness agree together. + +And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, +"Answerest thou nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?" + +But he held his peace, and answered nothing. + +And the high priest said unto him, "I adjure thee by the living God, +that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God." + +And Jesus said, "I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the +right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven." + +And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, "What further need have +we of witnesses? Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye?" + +And they all condemned him to be worthy of death. + +Then did they spit in his face and buffet him. And they blindfolded him +and smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, "Prophesy unto us, +thou Christ: who is he that struck thee?" + + +THE DENIAL OF PETER. + +And as Peter was beneath in the court, there cometh one of the maids of +the high priest; and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, +and saith, "Thou also wast with the Nazarene, even Jesus." + +But he denied, saying, "I neither know nor understand what thou sayest," +and he went out into the porch; and the cock crew. + +And after a little while they that stood by came and said to Peter, "Of +a truth thou also art one of them; for thy speech maketh thee known." + +Then began he to curse and to swear, "I know not the man." And +straightway the cock crew. + +And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the +word of the Lord, how that he said unto him, "Before the cock crow twice +thou shalt deny me thrice." + +And he went out, and wept bitterly. + +And straightway in the morning the chief priests with the elders and +scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, +and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate, the governor. + + +THE REMORSE OF JUDAS. + +Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented +himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests +and elders, saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." + +But they said, "What is that to us? See thou to it." + +And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; +and he went away and hanged himself. + +And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, "It is not +lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood." +And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to +bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, "The field of +blood," unto this day. + +Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, +saying, "And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him +that was priced, whom certain of the children of Israel did price; and +they gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me." + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE. + +They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was +early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they +might not be defiled, but might eat the passover. Pilate therefore went +out unto them, and saith, "What accusation bring ye against this man?" + +They answered and said unto him, "If this man were not an evil-doer, we +should not have delivered him up unto thee." + +Pilate therefore said unto them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him +according to your law." + +The Jews said unto him, "It is not lawful for us to put any man to +death": that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, +signifying by what manner of death he should die. + +And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man perverting our +nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he +himself is Christ a king." + +And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered +nothing. Then saith Pilate unto him, "Hearest thou not how many things +they witness against thee?" And he gave him no answer, not even to one +word: insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. + +Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, and +said unto him, "Art thou the King of the Jews?" + +Jesus answered, "Sayest thou this of thyself, or did others tell it thee +concerning me?" + +Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests +delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?" + +Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of +this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered +to the Jews; but now is my kingdom not from hence." + +Pilate therefore said unto him, "Art thou a king then?" + +Jesus answered, "Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end have I been +born, and to this end am I come into the world, that I should bear +witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." + +Pilate saith unto him, "What is truth?" + +And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith +unto them, "I find no crime in him." + +But they were the more urgent, saying, "He stirreth up the people, teaching +throughout all Judaea, and beginning from Galilee, even unto this place." + +But when Pilate heard it, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean. And +when he knew that he was of Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him unto +Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem in these days. + + +JESUS BEFORE HEROD. + +Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad; for he was of a long time +desirous to see him, because he had heard concerning him; and he hoped to +see some miracle done by him. And he questioned him in many words; but he +answered him nothing. And the chief priests and the scribes stood, +vehemently accusing him. And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and +mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate. + +And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day: for +before they were at enmity between themselves. + + +THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE RESUMED. + +And Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, +and said unto them, "Ye brought unto me this man, as one that perverteth +the people: and behold, I, having examined him before you, found no fault +in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: no, nor yet Herod: +for he sent him back unto us; and behold, nothing worthy of death hath been +done by him. I will therefore chastise him, and release him." + +Now at the feast the governor was wont to release unto the multitude one +prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner, called +Barabbas, lying bound with them that had made insurrection, men who in +the insurrection had committed murder. And the multitude went up and +began to ask him to do as he was wont to do unto them. + +And Pilate answered them, saying, "Will ye that I release unto you the +King of the Jews?" For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had +delivered him up. + +Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes that they +should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. + +But the governor answered and said unto them, "Which of the two will ye +that I release unto you?" + +And they said, "Barabbas." + +Pilate saith unto them, "What then shall I do unto Jesus who is called +Christ?" + +They all say, "Let him be crucified." + +And he said unto them a third time, "Why, what evil hath this man done? I +have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise and release +him." + +Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. + +And the soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; +and they call together the whole band. + +And they stripped him, and arrayed him in a purple garment. And they +platted a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his +right hand; and they kneeled down before him, and mocked him, saying: +"Hail, King of the Jews!" and they struck him with their hands. And they +spat upon him, and took the reed and smote him upon the head. + +And Pilate went out again, and saith unto them, "Behold, I bring him out +to you, that ye may know that I find no crime in him." + +Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple +garment. And Pilate saith unto them, "Behold, the man!" + +When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried +out, saying, "Crucify him, crucify him!" + +Pilate saith unto them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I +find no crime in him." + +The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, +because he made himself the Son of God." + +When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid; and he +entered into the Praetorium again, and saith unto Jesus, "Whence art thou?" + +But Jesus gave him no answer. + +Pilate therefore saith unto him, "Speakest thou not unto me? Knowest thou +not that I have power to release thee, and have power to crucify thee?" + +Jesus answered him, "Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it +were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee +hath greater sin." + +Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying, +"If thou release this man, thou art not Caesar's friend: every one that +maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar." + +When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat +down on the judgment-seat at a place called The Pavement, but in +Hebrew, Gabbatha. + +And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent unto him, +saying, "Have thou nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have +suffered many things this day in a dream because of him." + +Now it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. +And he saith unto the Jews, "Behold, your King." + +They therefore cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" + +Pilate saith unto them, "Shall I crucify your King?" + +The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." + +So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult +was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, +saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye to it." + +And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us, and on our +children." + +And they were urgent with loud voices asking that he might be crucified. +And their voices prevailed. + +And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, gave sentence that what +they asked for should be done. And he released unto them Barabbas, him +that for insurrection and murder had been cast into prison, whom they +asked for; but Jesus he delivered up to their will. + +And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the robe, and put +on him his garments, and led him away to crucify him. + + +THE SORROWFUL WAY. + +They took Jesus therefore: and he went out, bearing the cross for himself. + +And as they came out, they laid hold upon one Simon of Cyrene, the +father of Alexander and Rufus, who was passing by, coming from the +country; him they compelled to go with them, and laid on him the cross, +that he might bear it after Jesus. + +And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who +bewailed and lamented him. + +But Jesus turning unto them said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not +for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For behold, +the days are coming, in which they shall say, 'Blessed are the barren, +and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.' +Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us'; and to +the hills, 'Cover us.' For if they do these things in the green tree, +what shall be done in the dry?" + +And there were also two others, malefactors, led with him to be put to +death. + + +THE CRUCIFIXION. + +And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, +The place of a skull, they gave him wine to drink mingled with gall: and +when he had tasted it, he would not drink. + +There they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and +the other on the left. + +And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." + +And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And there was +written: + + -------------------------------------------- + | JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. | + -------------------------------------------- + +This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus +was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in +Latin, and in Greek. + +The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Write not, 'The +King of the Jews,' but that he said, 'I am King of the Jews.'" + +Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written." + +The soldiers therefore, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments +and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat: now the +coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said +therefore one to another, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, +whose it shall be": that the scripture might be fulfilled, which saith, + + "They parted my garments among them, + And upon my vesture did they cast lots." + +These things therefore the soldiers did; and they sat and watched him +there. + +And the people stood beholding. + +And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, +"Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save +thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross." + +In like manner also, the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and +elders, said, "He saved others; himself he cannot save. Let the Christ, +the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and +believe. He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth +him: for he said, I am the Son of God." + +And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, "Art +not thou the Christ? Save thyself and us." + +But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Dost thou not even fear +God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly; for +we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing +amiss." And he said, "Jesus, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom." + +And he said unto him, "Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with +me in Paradise." + +But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his +mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. When +Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by whom he +loved, he saith unto his mother, "Woman, behold thy son!" + +Then saith he to the disciple, "Behold thy mother!" + +And from that hour the disciple took her unto his owns home. + +And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land +until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud +voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is, being interpreted, "My +God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" + +And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he +calleth Elijah." + +After this, Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the +scripture might be accomplished, saith, "I thirst." + +There was set there a vessel full of vinegar: so they put a sponge full +of the vinegar upon hyssop, and brought it to his mouth. When Jesus +therefore had received the vinegar, he said, "It is finished." + +And Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into thy hands I +commend my spirit," and having said this, he gave up the ghost. + +And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the +bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent; and the tombs +were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were +raised; and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they +entered into the holy city and appeared unto many. + +Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when they +saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, +saying, "Truly this was the Son of God." + +And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they +beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts. And +many women were there beholding from afar, who had followed Jesus from +Galilee, ministering unto him; among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary +the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. + +The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies +should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that +sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be +broken, and that they might be taken away. + +The soldiers therefore came, and brake the legs of the first, and of +the other that was crucified with him: but when they came to Jesus, and +saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs; howbeit one of +the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came +out blood and water. And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his +witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may +believe. For these things came to pass, that the scripture might be +fulfilled, "A bone of him shall not be broken." And again another +scripture saith, "They shall look on him whom they pierced." + + +THE BURIAL. + +And after these things, when even was come, there came a rich man from +Arimathaea, named Joseph, a councillor of honorable estate, a disciple of +Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews; and he boldly went in unto Pilate +and asked for the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if he were already +dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been +any while dead. And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the +corpse to Joseph. + +He came therefore, and took away his body. And there came also Nicodemus, +he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and +aloes, about a hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it +in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury. + +Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden: and in the +garden a new tomb wherein was never man yet laid. There then because of +the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb was nigh at hand), they laid Jesus; +and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb. + +And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld the tomb, and how +his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. + + + + +SATURDAY--THE DAY OF SILENCE AND SORROW. + + +THE WATCH AT THE TOMB. + +Now on the morrow, which is the day after the Preparation, the chief +priests and the Pharisees were gathered together unto Pilate, saying, "Sir, +we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, 'After three +days I rise again.' Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until +the third day, lest haply his disciples come and steal him away, and say +unto the people, 'He is risen from the dead,' and the last error will be +worse than the first." + +Pilate said unto them, "Ye have a guard: go, make it as sure as ye can." + +So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, the guard +being with them. + + + + +SUNDAY--THE DAY OF RESURRECTION. + + +THE EARTHQUAKE. + +And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord +descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon +it. His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow: and +for fear of him the watchers did quake, and became as dead men. + + +THE EMPTY TOMB. + +Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it +was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the +tomb. She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other +disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, "They have taken away +the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him." + +Peter therefore went forth, and the other disciple, and they went toward +the tomb. And they ran both together: and the other disciple outran +Peter, and came first to the tomb; and stooping and looking in, he seeth +the linen cloths lying; yet entered he not in. + +Simon Peter therefore also cometh, following him, and entered into the +tomb: and he beholdeth the linen cloths lying, and the napkin, that was +upon his head, not lying with the linen cloths, but rolled up in a place by +itself. Then entered in therefore the other disciple also, who came first +to the tomb, and he saw, and believed. For as yet they knew not the +scripture, that he must rise again from the dead. So the disciples went +away again unto their own home. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO MARY. + +But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, she +stooped and looked into the tomb; and she beholdeth two angels in white +sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus +had lain. And they say unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou?" + +She saith unto them, "Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know +not where they have laid him." + +When she had thus said, she turned herself back, and beholdeth Jesus +standing, and knew not that it was Jesus. + +Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?" + +She, supposing him to be the gardener, saith unto him, "Sir, if thou hast +borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him +away." + +Jesus saith unto her, "Mary." + +She turneth herself, and saith unto him in Hebrew, "Rabboni"; which is +to say, "Teacher." + +Jesus saith to her, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended unto the +Father; but go unto my brethren, and say to them, 'I ascend unto my +Father, and your Father, and my God and your God.'" + +Mary Magdalene cometh and telleth the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; +and that he had said these things unto her. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE WOMEN. + +And the women which had come with him out of Galilee came unto the tomb, +bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they were saying among +themselves, "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the tomb?" +and looking up, they see that the stone is rolled back: for it was +exceeding great. And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting +on the right side, arrayed in a white robe; and they were amazed. And he +saith unto them, "Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been +crucified; he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid +him! But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goeth before you into +Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.'" + +And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran +to bring his disciples word. + +And behold, Jesus met them, saying, "All hail." And they came and took +hold of his feet, and worshipped him. + +Then saith Jesus unto them, "Fear not: go tell my brethren that they +depart into Galilee, and there shall they see me." + + +REPORT OF THE WATCH. + +Now while they were going, behold, some of the guard came into the city, +and told unto the chief priests all the things that were come to pass. +And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, +they gave much money unto the soldiers, saying, "Say ye, 'His disciples +came by night, and stole him away while we slept.' And if this come to +the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and rid you of care." + +So they took the money and did as they were taught: and this saying was +spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day. + + +THE APPEARANCE AT EMMAUS. + +And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named +Emmaus, which was three-score furlongs from Jerusalem. And they communed +with each other of all these things which had happened. + +And it came to pass, while they communed and questioned together, that +Jesus himself drew near, and went with them. But their eyes were holden +that they should not know him. + +And he said unto them, "What communications are these that ye have one +with another, as ye walk?" + +And they stood still, looking sad. And one of them, named Cleopas, +answering, said unto him, "Dost thou alone sojourn in Jerusalem and not +know the things which are come to pass there in these days?" + +And he said unto them, "What things?" + +And they said unto him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who +was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God, and all the people: +and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be +condemned to death, and crucified him. But we hoped that it was he who +should redeem Israel. Yea, and besides all this, it is now the third +day since these things came to pass. Moreover, certain women of our +company amazed us, having been early at the tomb; and when they found +not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of +angels, who said that he was alive. And certain of them that were with +us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but +him they saw not." + +And he said unto them, "O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in +all that the prophets have spoken! Behooved it not the Christ to suffer +these things, and to enter into his glory?" + +And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to +them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. + +And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they were going: and he +made as though he would go further. And they constrained him, saying, +"Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent." + +And he went in to abide with them. And it came to pass, when he had sat +down with them to meat, he took the bread and blessed; and breaking it, +he gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he +vanished out of their sight. + +And they said one to another, "Was not our heart burning within us, +while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?" + +And they rose up that very hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found +the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them, saying, "The +Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon." And they rehearsed +the things that happened in the way, and how he was known of them in the +breaking of the bread. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES. + +When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and +when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, +Jesus came and stood in the midst and saith unto them, "Peace be unto you." + +But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a +spirit. And he said unto them, "Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do +questionings arise in your heart? See my hands and my feet, that it is I +myself: handle me, and see: for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye +behold me having." + +And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. + +And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said unto +them, "Have ye here anything to eat?" + +And they gave him a piece of broiled fish. And he took it, and ate +before them. + +Jesus therefore said to them again, "Peace be unto you: as the Father hath +sent me, even so send I you." And when he had said this, he breathed on +them, and saith unto them, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit: whose soever sins +ye forgive, they are forgiven unto them; whose soever sins ye retain, they +are retained." + + + + +AFTER THE RESURRECTION DAY. + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES AND TO THOMAS. + +But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus +came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, "We have seen the Lord." + +But he said unto them, "Except I shall see in his hands the print of the +nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand +into his side, I will not believe." + +And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with +them. Jesus cometh, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and +said, "Peace be unto you." + +Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and see my hands; and +reach hither thy hand, and put it into my side: and be not faithless, +but believing." + +Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: +blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE SEVEN BY THE SEA. + +After these things Jesus manifested himself again to the disciples at +the sea of Tiberias; and he manifested himself on this wise. There were +together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus and Nathanael of Cana in +Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples. + +Simon Peter saith unto them, "I go a fishing." + +They say unto him, "We also come with thee." + +They went forth, and entered into the boat; and that night they took +nothing. But when day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach: yet +the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. + +Jesus therefore saith unto them, "Children, have ye aught to eat?" + +They answered him, "No." + +And he said unto them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and +ye shall find." + +They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the +multitude of fishes. + +That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, "It is the +Lord." So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his coat +about him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea. + +But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from +the land, but about two hundred cubits off), dragging the net full of +fishes. + +So when they got out upon the land, they see a fire of coals there, and +fish laid thereon, and bread. Jesus saith unto them, "Bring of the fish +which ye have now taken." + +Simon Peter therefore went up, and drew the net to land, full of great +fishes, a hundred and fifty and three; and for all there were so many, +the net was not rent. + +Jesus saith unto them, "Come and break your fast." + +And none of the disciples durst inquire of him, "Who art thou?" knowing +that it was the Lord. + +Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, and the fish likewise. + +This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, +after that he was risen from the dead. + +So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, "Simon, +son of John, lovest thou me more than these?" + +He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee." + +He saith unto him, "Feed my lambs." + +He saith unto him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, lovest thou +me?" + +He saith unto him, "Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee." + +He saith unto him, "Tend my sheep." + +He saith unto him the third time, "Simon, son of John, lovest thou me?" + +Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, "Lovest thou +me?" And he said unto him, "Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest +that I love thee." + +Jesus saith unto him, "Feed my sheep. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When +thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest; +but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another +shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not." + +Now this he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should glorify +God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, "Follow me." + +Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; who +also leaned back on his breast at the supper, and said, "Lord, who is he +that betrayeth thee?" Peter therefore seeing him saith to Jesus, "Lord, +and what shall this man do?" + +Jesus saith unto him, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that +to thee? Follow thou me." + +This saying therefore went forth among the brethren, that that disciple +should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, that he should not die, +but, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" + + +THE APPEARANCE TO THE ELEVEN ON THE MOUNTAIN. + +The eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus +had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but some +doubted. And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, "All +authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye +therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the +name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them +to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you +always, even unto the end of the world." + + +THE LAST APPEARANCE AND ASCENSION. + +And he said unto them, "These are my words which I spake unto you, while I +was yet with you, that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are +written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning +me." + +Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures; +and he said unto them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should +suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day; and that repentance +and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the +nations, beginning from Jerusalem. Ye are witnesses of these things. And +behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in +the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high." + +And he led them out until they were over against Bethany: and he lifted +up his hands, and blessed them. + +And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was +carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to +Jerusalem with great joy: and were continually in the temple, blessing God. + + * * * * * + +MANY OTHER SIGNS THEREFORE DID JESUS IN THE PRESENCE OF THE DISCIPLES, +WHICH ARE NOT WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK: BUT THESE ARE WRITTEN, THAT YE MAY +BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD; AND THAT BELIEVING YE +MAY HAVE LIFE IN HIS NAME. + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: + + +* p. 11: Replaced the word "Caesar" with "Caesar" located in the phrase +"Tribute to Caesar" to be consistent with other similar spellings. + +* p. 14: Corrected spelling of word "cribes" to "scribes" located in the +phrase "But woe unto you, cribes". + +* p. 23: Added missing closing quotation after the word "hour" located +in the phrase "not the day nor the hour". + +* p. 24: Added missing closing quotation after the word "teeth" located +in the phrase "and the gnashing of teeth". + +* p. 34: Corrected spelling of word "m" to "me" located in the phrase +"If a man abide not in m". + +* p. 43: Corrected spelling of word "ever" to "even" located in the +phrase "I ever taught in synagogues".] + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of His Last Week, by +William E. 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