>ndcmn ther T.. 7ohn ſaith, It was upon the hearing of that, ſaying, 1; thr p 2 this Man go, thu art not Ceſar's Friend : Whiſrer er mal Ig ſelf a King ſpeaketh againſt Ceſar. His fear of beings accuſe che Emperor Tiberins, as Favouring one who made hiandole » King ; eſpecially, 1t his oppoſing the 7ews in their dei.re wt Duath, ſhould have cauicd a Tumulr, was queſtionlc;: i}-& v564s ting that moved him co give Judgment in this Caſe «-rirary pen his own Conſcience; and this is the meaning of l..s contentins the People, mentioned by Mzrk. Its plain, by the whole "<A he had no mind to gratifie, cr gain Favour with them ; " conſidering how jealous and ſuſpicious a Prince Titerivs war ” was Pilate's Inrereſt ro q:tet them, and to give them no _ tron of Accuſing him unto the Emperor. { He tub>th Wars; m waſheth his Hands before the Malti+n:.) Irwas the Liy of Gra in Maneflaughrer, where he thar flew the Man was not known, tt, Prieſts and Elders of the Ciry, that (upon meaſure, ſhould !, fund nearelt to the dead Body, ſhould take an Heifer, and bring i; "I rogh Vallty, and ſirike off its Head, and waſh their Hunds or 14 Head if the beheaded Heifer : And ſay, Our Hunds have 11; ſped t! | Bland, neither have our Execs jeen it, Devt:. 213, 2, Li q Foo Some think thar Pilate, living amongſt the Jews, had learns |. Rire trom them ; bur others think, that it was a Ritc uſed in » teſtations cf Inn*cency amongſt other People, as well as the 7%. But ic was a grear Fondneſs in Pilate to think this excuted*};.. and treed him from the Guilr of cur Saviour's Death; tcr t ths was fuch an inſeparable Guilt clove to the Att, as nothing cou'd expire, bur that Blood which he ſpile. Thote who rake upcn chem the Truſt of execuring Laws, had nced. take heed via they do, for the Law will not excuſe them in the Court of Hez. ven, unleſs it be tound according to the Law of Grd, yi; Pilate did, he did bur Miniſterially , The Law Condemnce, rc; he; bur it it be underſtood of the Law of God about &/.:/71.11 co which the Fews undoubtedly referred, John 18. 33, 36. it _ miſ-applied. If it were a Roman Law, Pilate oughrro have cop. tidered the Equity and Juſtice of it, and whether the Fa& 44; proved or no. Plate kad twice owned, There was 1 f.wul; jn Sim, His Waſhing kis Hands could not purge him of the ur der Whereof he was Guilty in his Condemnarion ; he dd ty; proteſt againſt what he immediately was abour to do. | Then ,; ſwered all the Penple, and ſuid, His Blood be upon us and ons (il dren. | His Blood, that is, the Guilt of his Blood be UPUN us, (+, A moſt ſad Imprecarion, the Efte& of which hath been upon that Miſcrable People, now more than fixtcen hundred year:,\ { Then releaſed he Bu; abbas to them ; and having Scourged Feſusc,) The Scourging was before this, and ſo Recorded by St, Titn (for we cannot imagine that he was rwice Scourged.) [Ee deli.
4 . _— 4 vered him to be Crucified : ] Not to the Jews, bur to his own Of;- cers ; for it was a Civil Crime that he was accuſed of before p;. {ate, and Crucifying was a Roman Puniſhment.
27 Then the ſouldiers * of the governour tock [e- ſus into the common || hall, and gathered unto hin ty the whole band of /oul/dters. =
28 And they firipped him.and put on hima ſcar- (a: let robe.
29 And whenthey had platted a crown of thorns, they put 27 upon his head, and a reed in his right hand : and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, ſaying. Hail, King of the Jews.
30 And they * ſpit upon him, and took the recd, * li and {mote him onthe head. Chuzs 31 And after they had mocked him, they took the robe oft from him, and put his own rayment on
him, and led him away to crucike him.
Mark hath che ſame, Chap. 15. 17, 18, 19, 20, Only he faith, they put upon him a Purple Robe; Fohn ſeemeth to mercion this a litrle our of order, Chap. 15. 1, 2, 3, 4. as done before his Cot demnation ; for rho' ſome think rhar Matthew and Murh rather mention theſe things our of their due Order, yer the Abuſes ſeem more likely tro be done to a Perſon who was Condemned, and ſo Dead in Law, than while he was upon his Tryal. Writers rell us, that none might be Crucified before he was Scourged, and chat not with Rods, (which was the Jewiſh manner, bur ict Whips, (tar more cruelly ;) but whether 1t was before, or aitec Condemnation, we are nor certain: He was Condemned upon chat Article. That he ſhould ſay, He was the King of the Jes» - To mock him therefore, they ſeta Crown on his Heag , but 0 Thwns; They puta Scepter into his Hand, but ic wasdf 4&e:4- They bowed the Knee before him, as was wont to PrYices , Ti) put on him a Robe of Purple or Scarlet, borh which were ulcd v Princes : In ſhort, they pur upon him all che Indignicies 41% Marks of Scorn imaginable. When they had chus glutced hems ſelves, rhey reſtore his own Garmentro him, and lead him away to the Place of Execution. Who can read theſe chings v1 4 believing Heart, and dry Eyes, if he remembers, that our YT plarted che Crown of Thorns fer upon our Saviour's Head, and made the Whips with which he was Scourged ? Our Stolinac'is (when we read theſe things) are ready co riſe againſt the Pag? Souldicrs ; bur how little did rhey do in Compariſon ot wWhai Chriſt ſuffered for our Sins? Who can read theſe things, and not be tortifned againſt Tempracions, from Suffering, it We own the Goſpel, and Cauſe of Chriſt? Our Sufferings il com: much ſhort ot what Chrift hath ſuffered tor us.
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