' they 6 . © 07299 death ; na e 7ews puthim to death, they wonld have ; xl ſhould be defiled : but that they might eat the ſtoned him 3 bur he muſt remove the curſe from us, by being mad2 regs -omatls a curſe for 15, being hanged on a tree, which was Jooke vpor XS an 2C- , . . . I h ] 'tl, "A . . S [i 2 K T Ice ve : £The Chief Prieſts having in their Savhedrim done with our $a- eng dearh oy 2 13. Th Jews therefore knowing nothin 1 It was viour's caſe, and judged him worrhy of death, as we read Mar: / this Counſel of God, yer execute it, by refuſing themſelves to prot hat in 26.66. Mark 14. $4. which two Evanpeliſts " welehs Ziad wh mig him to death, and putting ir off to P:/are, tho poſſibly their defign 8 . SD” 2 Cy ated Ut was hurt TT 7; ir, ; N. 4 nll” that in Hiſtory of Chriſt's Tryal before the Sanhedrim, with many more tis he wag edinm of it. Thus God maketh the wrath of er, and meg than Fehr doth, ( ſee the notes on thoſe Texts) rhey EEE k | 4 more _ mod ues por any Ecclefzaſtical Conrt, to the Court of the] 33 * Then Pilate entred into the judgment-hall © 7f.c, =: Wil Magthtrate ; ether kept 11 P:/ate's 2 n RT IRR - : Fx Nan ale 27 Giſci civi} Governor under the Ri Pines oa, EET _— py and called Jelus, and ſid unto him, Art thou 1- CUUICL- . i nere at Je e he f: 319 * Jadg; which was therefore called the Ha of Judgment, hþ How ERS GER Jews F. ] ſl dar we cannot tel], bur early ir was ; probably abour five or |, ? The ordinary place of Jndicature, f om whence we tead before Do "a , : lack. 7 The 7ews would not go into the Judgment-hall, he went cur, in civility tothe Jews, whoſe ſuperſtition (as we before _ and wy might not be defiled, (for they account it a legal pour ion heard) kept them from going there guring the Feſtival: g9 He c:i- verty j "om earqies to 1 00g into an Heathens Houle, or to touch any led Jeſus to him privarelv, and asks him, if he owned himſelf ro b2 erty 0 "hy , ach an Har hen had touched) now the reaſon is afſigned why | the King of the 7ews ? The confeſſing of which, (for withour doube thing t0 Mi hoy afraid of contrating any legal pollution, viz. That they they had ſuggeſted ſome ſuch thing to P-/are, and con!d not prove Jout his rt W: the Paſſover, Oby. But had they ne: eaten the Paſſover the it) had bronght Chriſt under P:/ate's power, he being Governor fo. —- 6g « ; hat was the time proſcribed by the Law, to the letter of the Romans. and fo concerned to enquire upon any that pretended to _ had = A ere « no don$t but that our Saviour ftritly kept himſelf ? Aauſ.| *®Yy Regal Power over that Conquered people. _— ” nia ws ng eres = dey when they — 34 Jeſus anſwered him, Sayeſt thow this thing of thy F a fall 7 Axia » Tall efore the Sabbath, rhe TT , . 4 2 pl 20 vom puroff tobe kept on che Sabbath, that two great Belti ſelf, o1 did others tell it thee of me 7: ch from kept it pgs e kept two days ſucceſſively ; ſo as, tho our Saviour | 7 Our Saviour neither affirmeth nor denieth : tho we be bound tne time appointed by the Law, yet the Jews did not. Bur ,whenever we fpeak,to ſpeak the truth, yet we are not bonnd all times
ap. XVIII
11 Why askeſt thou me 4? ask them which heard me, what I have ſaid unto them : behold, they know
what I ſaid ©:
a We are told by thoſe chat have written about che Few!/h order heir Courts of Judgment 3 That their C:1:tal Cauſes always b2gan Wb the defenſitive part 3 and that it was lawful for any to ſpeak for rhe defendants, for a whole day together ; ( tho they did not obſerve this in the cauſe Of Chriſt) and their mcti,od was not to pur the De- -ndaxt; to accuſethemſelves, but to examine witneſſes againſt them; Oar Saviour cherefore appeals to their on order, and ſays,Why. askeſt 2 It was, Jaith he, no ſecret ation ; I ſpake publickly, ask ar heard me ſpeak, they know whar Dottria 1 preached, and falſe Do&rin
22 And when he had thus ſpoken, one of the officers | , which ſtood by *, ſtruck Jeſus | with the palm of his ;1.hand, ſaying, Anſwerelt thou the high prieſt fo c ?
7) This Jets us ſee in whit indecent diſorder the Jewiſh Govern-
int
thats Me
them th | can accule me if I dclivered any
S. FOHN
neſs, and not at all ſcrupling either immediately before the eating the Paſſover, or prefently after ir, in their great Feſtival to defile them- ſelves with the guilt of innocent blood ; nay, had Chriſt been ſuch a2 malefaCtor as they pretended, yet the bringing him into judgmenr their proſecuting, and accuſing, and condemning him, and effifting ia his Crucifying, were not works fir for the day before ſuch 3 So- lemnity, or the day after it, which was ſo great a Feſtival ; bur there 1s nothing more ordinary than for perſons over zealous as to Ritu- als, to be as remiſs with reference to Moral duties. |
- Pilate then went out unto them, and id » What qacculation bring you againſt this man & ?
þ The Roman Governor humoureth them in their Superſtition 3 ( the Romans having granted them the liberty of their Religion) they (cruple to go into the ordinary p'ace of judgment ; he goes out ro them, and calls for their Acca/atioz of Chriſt, according to the ord:- nary and regular courſe of judgments.
30 They anſwered and ſaid unto him, if he were not a malefattor, we would not have delivered him up
his 1s denj denied by other very Learned men, who tell us, the Jews ne-
to ſpeak the whole truth. Our Saviour deſirech to be fatisR-d from
Chap. XVIil.
the? Ve Ws , ; : tO r altered their day for keeping their Paflover, neither for the ſuc- | 2*/a7e, whether he asked him as a private perſon for his own faril-
- eding $: l : | jn the es ar nor any other reaſon. They ſay therefore, that by faQtion, or as a Jnage, having received any ſuch accufution againſt ſecret The Feast = which is mentioned in this Verſe, is to be underſtood, him? For if he asked him as Judge, he was bound to cail them to
ty arrange _— - 17. Which was tobe kept the fifteenth [the proof of what they had charged him with. : : aS al e "to WW) - - 4 .- ;. z The morning to the evening os cha We wk —_ 25 _ anſwered, ASENNEE 1 aide own hat