{ Nor for the 7ews only. The words uſed in Cazaphas hisſpeech were aads and E9yog, words not fignificant of the Jews only, bur ct other Veople alſo: m for Chriſt was to gather into one body "all th2 El:(7 of Goh, (who are here called the Children of God, becauſe they were to be (o after their being begotcen by the Immortal teed of the Word, and born again of Water and the Spirir ) thoſe rhar at prefeur were ſcattered abroad over the faceofthe whole Earth:
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Earth.” The Evangeliſt extendeth the ſenſe of Caiaphss his p.. 7 to Gentiles as well as Jews, according to the extent of the RY Chriſt, declared 1 John 2. 2. / <Att of 53 Then from that day forth they took connge +, gether for to put him to death 7. | # n They had caken ſuch Counſels before , bur row the intent than before, having found a jufter prerence, 45, t ©. a Sedition and Rebellion 3 and Iearned of their High Priet) nm 'was more convenicht that one ſhould die, than that a whole as I ſhould 'be deſtroyed. The Hiph Prieſt had farisfied their Conf, ces ; now they make all the haſt,they can to pur rheir malicioy. _
ſ7gns In execuri6n, Sg ' $4 Jeſus therefore *walked-no more openly amor f
the wilderneſs, into a city,called Ephraim p, ang there continued with his diſciples 4. ”
o For he being the true Paſchal Lamb, was to be (in Feaſt, and pur. an end to thar ,Type, and would cherefore bimſelffor that time, which was now #t hatid. p Whar this Et or Ephraim was, 1nterpreters, .vainly buſie themſelves in inquiio,? ir was ſome obſcure Ciry, and near the Wilderneſs ; ſome chin? was In the Lot of Benjamin, others think ic was in the Lot of Evbrai a and obtained irs name from che Tribe wichin whoſe Lor it was, ; Scripture no. where mentioneth it: and it cannor be expected bn 'that 1n ſo many changes of Government as had befallen the Jews the names of places ſhould be ſo altered, that we ſhould be t alok © many of them: q where ever it was, it is ſaid that Chriſt and hi; Dic ciples continued there in ſome privacy. ;
55 And the Jews paſſover was nigh at hand r, any many went., out of the countrey up to Jeruſalem hefy;s the paſlover to purifie ' themſelves -. Bop
r Chritts laſt Paſſover, which was.the fourth after he had eftered upon his publick Miniftry 3 this. was nigh : £ He doth nct ay al bur many went up to purifie themſelves. There was no general % gal purification required before men did eat the Paſſover, but there were ſeveral legal uncleanneſſes, and purificarions neceMary to clempe men from them; now thoſe who had any ſpecial Purificatinn to pal wenr' before others, that they might have time to do what the Lay required of them.
556 * Then themſelves, as they ſtood in the temple, What think
ye? that he will not come to the feaſt :?
- £ I find good Interpreters expounding this Verſe, of the Friends of Chriſt, who having uſed ro meer Chriſt art theſe Feaſts, and (ve tome Miracles wrought by him, did out of a good deſign ſeekfor hin, and inquire of each other, whether they knew, whether he intended to be ar the Feaſt 3 yer ir may alſo be underftood of his Enenis, tho it ſcemeth ſomething roo early, being ſix or ſeven days before,
57 Now both the chief prieſts and the Phariſces ha given a commandment, that if any man knew where he
were, he ſhould ſhew zt, that they might take him ».
,,« For their great Courr had iſſued our orders for the diſcovery and apprehending of our Saviour, if they could any way learn where he was, This was in purſuance of that wicked Counſel of which «c read"before, wer. 33. there they decreed 3 now they cannot reſt un- cil chey bring their bloody devices to paſs, for which we ſhallſoon find God giving theman opportunity.
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' Chriſt betng at Bethany, is anointed by Martha, 1-=3, Wherefme
' TFudas reprehendeth her, 4—6.: and Chriſt defendeth, 1, 8. Many
| Jews go to ſee Lazarus, . 9. whom the chief Prietis ſeeb t put to
death, 10, Is. Chrift rideth to Jeruſalem, whom the mtitxde re-
-- ctive with joy, 12-—19, Some Greeks deſire to ſee viſt; who diſcourſe with Philip thereabout, 20—22, Chriſt # glorified with a toice from Heaven, 23——29. Tellith the multitude the frait and manner of hu death : Exhorteth *em to walk in hu Light, $4—Þ Mary of the Zews believe in him, 379— 45. Chriſt exhorteth "ent Faith, 45 —50,
at thar referys
: ®F* Hen Jeſus, fix days before the paſſover, came to 2 Bethany a, where Lazarus was, which "ad been dead, whom he raiſed from the dead b.
-a From the Countrey near to the Wilderneſs where he contirued wich his Diſciples, Chap. 11. 54. he came ro Bethany within leſs chan rio miles of Jeryſalem, upon the Sabbath day, or peſlivly the night before 3 ſix days before the Paſſover : b Ic was the place where C we read in the former Chapter ) Lazarus died, and was by Chr: raiſed from the dead.
2 There they made him a ſupper, and Martha fer- ved; but Lazarus was one of them that fat at the table with him c. ;
c Thar this Supper was made in Bethany, is no queſtion; but at whoſe houſe there, ir Is queſtioned ; ſome think char Ir was at rhe houſe of Simen the Leper 3 we read indeed of a Supper made for our Saviour at his Houſe, both Matth. 26, 6, 7. and Mark.14- 3. 90d thet Simon is ſaid to have been of Bethanz;z only the Supper here ment oned, is ſaid to have been fix days before the Pallover, and ” mentioned by Matth?w and Mayh ſeems to have been bur.twO . ays before, Marth, 26. 2. Mark 14. 1.. That which 1s probably —_— ſolve that difficulty is, the circumſtances of che Supper, ans Hilo ry about fr, ſeem the very (ame, both In #arthew, ark and —_ but'*ir ſeems in Matthew and Mark, to be a little pur out of - po they do nor ſay, thar this Supper was two days before the loc” (chat ihdeed had beema contradiRion to what Fobn dorh here gy my bl but both Matthew and Mark firſt tell us, that Chriſt cold hs orgs ples, thar the -Paſſrer was ro be within wo days, and of the Cour
Chrilt, Eph..t» 10, was to gather in one all things in Heaven and | E ; 4
L , : - and the ſe] caken by the c<>7rf Priefts and Elders againſt Chr Wt, na
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the Jews 0: but went thence unto a countrey neg; Fs
ſought they for Jeſus, and ſpake among *hy
refare Mary t to Wit who with + and _ 'emt0
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been
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