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XXVI. τ. ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο ὅτε ἐτέλεσεν ὁ “Ingots πάντας τοὺς λόγους τούτους, εἶπε τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ, 2. “Οἴδατε ὅτι μετὰ δύο ἡμέραςα vv. 58, 69.
τὸ πάσχα yiverat, καὶ 6 υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοται eis τὸ 3. Τότε συνήχθησαν οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς] καὶ ot πρεσβύτεροι τοῦ λαοῦ eis τὴν " αὐλὴν τοῦ ἀρχιερέως τοῦ λεγομένου Καϊάφα, 4. καὶ συνεβουλεύσαντο ἵνα τὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν κρατή-
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, Χιν. 54,66; xv. 16. Lk. χε αχ. XXii. 55. John xviii. 15. Vide below.
' και ot γραμματεις omitted in SABDL (Tisch., W.H., Ws.).
who love the Father’s blessed ones Jesus made an important contribution to the doctrine of the Fatherhood, defining by discriminating use the title “‘ Father ”’.
CHaPTers XXVI.-XXVII. THE Passion History. These chapters give with exceptional fulness and minuteness of detail the story of Christ’s last sufferings and relative incidents. The story finds a place in all four Gospels (Mk. xiv., xv.; Lk. xxii., xxiii. ; John xviii., xix.), showing the intense interest felt by Christians of the apostolic age in all that related to the Passion of their Lord. Ofthethree strata of evangelic tradition relating respectively to what Jesus taught, what He did, and what He suffered, the last-named probably came first in origin. Men could wait for the words and deeds, but not for the awful tale of suffering. Even Holtzmann, who puts the teaching first, recognises the Passion drama as the nucleus of the tradition as to memorable facts and experiences. In the formation of the Passion chronicle the main facts would naturally come first ; around this nucleus would gather gradually accretions of minor incidents, till by the time the written records began to be compiled the collection of memorabilia had assumed the form it bears, say, in the Gospel of Mark; the historic truth on the solemn subject, at least as far as it could be ascertained. The passionless tone of the narrative in all four Gospels is remarkable ; the story is told in sub- dued accent, in few simple words, as if the narrator had no interest in the matter save that of the historian: ἁἀπαθῶς ἅπαντα διηγοῦνται, καὶ µόνης τῆς ἀληθείας φροντίζονσι. Euthy. Zig. ad Mt. xxvi. 67.
Chapter xxvi. and parallels contain the anointing, the betrayal, the Holy Supper, the agony, the apprehension, the trial, the denial by Peter.
Vv. 1-5. Introductory (Mk. xiv. 1, 2, Lk. xxii. 1, 2).—Vv. 1-2 contain a pre- diction by Jesus two days before Passover
of His approaching death; vv. 3-5 a notice of a consultation by the authorities as to how they might compass His death. In the parallels the former item appears as a mere date for the latter, the prediction being eliminated.—Ver. r. πάντας τ. λόγους τούτους, all these say- ings, most naturally taken as referring to the contents of chaps, xxiv., xxv., though a backward glance at the whole of Christ’s teaching is conceivable. Yet in case of such a comprehensive retro- spect why refer only to words? Why not to both dicta et facta -—Ver. 2. τὸ πάσχα, used both of festival, as here, and of victim, as in ver. 17. The Passover began on the r4th of Nisan; itis referred to here for the first time in our Gospel. ---παραδίδοται, present, either used to describe vividly a future event (Burton, M. T., § 15) or to associate it with the feast day as a fixture (γίνεται), ‘‘ calendar day and divine decree of death fixed beyond recall’’ (Holtz., H. C.), or to imply that the betrayal process is already begun in the thought of the false-hearted disciple.—Ver. 3. τότε, two days before Ῥαδδονετ.---συνήχθησαν points to a meeting of the Sanhedrim.—els τὴν αὐλὴν denotes the meeting place, either the palace of the high priest in accord- ance with the use of αὐλή in later Greek (Weiss), or the court around which the palatial buildings were ranged (Meyer) = atrium in Vulgate, followed by Calvin. In the latter case the meeting would be informal. In any case it was at the high priest’s quarters they met: where- upon Chrys. remarks: “' See the inex- pressible corruption of Jewish affairs. Having lawless proceedings on hand they come to the high priest seeking authority where they should encounter hindrance” (Hom. _ Ixxix.).—Kaiada, Caiaphas, surname, Joseph his name, seventeen years high priest (vide Joseph. Ant., 18, 2, 2; 4, 3).—Ver. 4. ἵνα with subjunctive after a verb of effort or plan ; in classic Greek oftener ὅπως with future indicative (Burton, § 205).—8d\w by,