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shouting for joy ;-drives the traffickers out of the temple ;where he heals the blind and the lame;-devotes the barren fig-tree;-affirms the power of faith ;-silences the chief priests and elders who question him about his authority ;—contrasts their character to that of the heathen, in the parable of the man who had two sons ;-paints their ingratitude to God in the parable of the husbandmen who ill-treated and killed their landlord's messengers ;-predicts the rejection of the Jews and the admission of the Gentiles into the church; this further illustrated in the parable of the marriage of the king's Page 104

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SECTION XII.

THE CHARACTER OF THE PHARISEES.

CHAPTERS XXII. 15, &c. xxIII,

Jesus eludes the artifices of the Pharisees in his manner of teaching that tribute ought to be paid to their rulers ;-vindicates the doctrine of the resurrection against the Sadducees ;-answers the lawyer who questioned him about what is most essential in the law;-puzzles the Pharisees with a passage of Scripture which they applied to the Messiah ;-admonishes the people to follow the good instructions, not the evil example, of their teachers, who are reproached with obstructing the access to the kingdom of heaven;-with making religion a mask to rapacity;—with their false zeal in making proselytes, whom far from reforming they corrupted;-with the encouragement their traditions gave to perjury;—with their exactness in things of no moment, whilst they neglected things of the high. est;—with their care about the cleanness of the outside, whilst they left the inside full of pollution,

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SECTION XIII.

THE PROPHECY ON MOUNT OLIVET.

CHAPTERS XXIV. XXV.

The destruction of the temple foretold; the calamities by which it will be preceded; the signs that the Judge is at hand ;the time of the judgment known only to God;-men will be surprised by it as formerly by the flood; the necessity of activity and vigilance illustrated;—by the example of servants who expect their master's return ;—by the parable of the ten virgins ;—by the parable of the talents :—account of the procedure at the last judgment. Page 116

SECTION XIV.

THE LAST SUPPER.

CHAPTERS XXVI. 1-56.

The rulers consult together about the method of apprehending Jesus :-a female disciple anoints his head :-Judas bargains with the chief priests to deliver him into their hands :-Jesus eats the passover with his disciples;—acquaints them of the treachery of one of them ;—institutes the commemoration of his death;-foretells their deserting, and Peter's disowning him :-his deep distress in the garden:-he is seized by an armed multitude conducted by Judas ;-rebukes an apostle for having recourse to the sword.

SECTION XV.

THE CRUCIFICTION.

CHAPTERS XXVI. 57, &c. xxvii. 1—56.

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Jesus is brought before the Sanhedrim ;-accused of blasphemy, -and condemned;-is denied by Peter:-Judas, finding that

he is condemned, repents his perfidy;-restores the price;~~ and in despair kills himself:-Jesus is delivered bound to the Roman procurator;-before whom he is accused by the chief priests and elders ;-Pilate perceiving that the accusation proceeded from envy, and being warned by his wife, not to do aught against Jesus, tries in vain to save him,-by the artifice of granting him to the prayer of the multitude, who were wont to obtain the release of a prisoner at the passover:-the multitude, instigated by their rulers, demand the release of Barabbas, and the crucifixion of Jesus :-Pilate, after washing his hands to testify that he was guiltless of this blood, con, sents to gratify them:-Jesus is scourged, and mocked, and crucified between two malefactors;—is insulted on the cross by persons of all ranks, fellow-sufferers not excepted :—his death attended with a preternatural darkness, and other prodigies, which strike the Roman centurion, and guards, with terror. Page 128

SECTION XVI.

THE RESURRECTION.

CHAPTERS XXVII. 57, &c. XXVIII.

The body of Jesus given to Joseph of Arimathea, who deposits it in his own sepulchre :-the sepulchre secured and watched :—his resurrection announced at the sepulchre to some pious women by an angel :-Jesus afterwards appears to them: the guard bribed by the Jewish rulers to say that the body was stolen when they were asleep :-Jesus appears to the disciples in Galilee, and commissions them to teach all nations.

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