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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 highwhilst est ;-with their care about the cleanness of the outside, 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, consents 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 Page 128

terror.

SECTION XVI.

THE RESURRECTION.

CHAPTERS XXVII. 57, &c. XXVIII.

The body of Jesus given to Joseph of Arimathea, who de posits 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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