>" RIV. DR. TALMAGH The Brooklyn vines Sunday Sermon, “Subject; The Holy Land in Winter.” TEXT: "A certain man wen! down from Jerusalem to Jericho." —Luke x., 30, It is the morning of December 5 in Jeru- salem, and we take stirrups for the road along which the wayfarer of old fell amon thieves, who left him wounded and hal dead. Job's picture of the horse in the orient as having neck ‘clothed with thun- der” is not true of most horses now in Pal estine. Ther hunder on their necks, though th lizhiliing in their Poorly 4 uamercifully wmeked, they sometimes retort. To Ameri. cans and 1, who are scoustomed to wide hors: the bridle, these horses of fe orient, guided only by foot and make equestrianism an anc ertainty, and the pull on the bridle that you intend for slow- ing up of the pace may be mistaken for a hint that you want to outgallop the wind or wheel in swift circles like the hawk. But they can climb steps and descend precipices with skilled foot, and ti Journey in Palestine shall have the praise of going for weeks without one stumbling step and amid rocky steeps, where an ordinary horse would not for an hour maintain sure footedness. There were eighteen of XH voice, pone L chooses for our ried our camp equipment Arab sheik, with his black Nubian servant Carr a loaded gun in full sight, Lut itis the fact that this sheik represents the Turk. ish Government which assures the safety of the caravan. We cross the Jehoshaphat Valley, which, if it bad not been memorable in history and were only now discovered, would excite the admiration of all who look upon it. It is like she gorges of the Yosemite or the chasms of the Yellowstone Park. The sides of this Jehoshaphat Valley are tunneled with graves and overiooked by Jerusalem walls—an eter. nity of depths overshadowed by an oternity of architecture. Within sight of Mount Olivet and Gethsemane and with the heavens and the sarth full of sunshine, we start out on the very road mentioned in the text when it says: “A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves.” No road that I ever saw was so well constructed for brigandage — deep } turns, caves on either side, are fifty places on this road where a waza might Suri ard overpower ed pligrim. is cry for help, his of pain, his death groan would be an. swersed only by the echoes. On this road to- y we met groups of men, who, judging thelr countenances, have in their veins blood of many generations of Rob Roys. says that Herod at one time dis from the service of the temple forty thoagand men, and that the great part of thew became robbers. So late as 18990 Sir Frederick Henniker, an English tourist, was attacked on this very road from Jerusalem to Jericho and shot and almost slain. There bas never been any scarcity of bandite along the road we travel to-day. With the fresh memory of some recent violence in their minds Christ tells the people of the good Samaritan who came along t way took care of a poor fallow that bad been sot upon by villainous Arabs and robbed and pounded and cut. We encamped for lunch that noon closes by an qld stone Building, sald to be the tavern where the scene of in the Bible culminated. Tumbled in the dust and ghastly with wounds the victim of this highway robbery lay in the middle of the road—a fact of ich I am certain, because the Bible says the by on either side. There wers x } priests living at Jaricho, and they bad to go to Jerusalem to officiate at the temple. And one of these ministers of ion, I suppose, was on his way to the temple service, and he is startled as he sees this bleeding victim in the middle of the road. “Oh.” he says, “here is a man that has been attacked of thieves, Why don’ you go home?’ says the minister, The man, in a comatose state, makes no an. swer, or, with a half dazed look, puts his hed foreh: ad, and “What® " savy the min. ister, “I must hurry on to my duties at Jer salem, I have to kill & lamb and two pigeon in sacrifice today. I cannot spend any more time with this unfortunate. | body else will take care of him. Hut this is one of the that cannot be helipad, any- bow. Bewide t, my busmess is with souls and not with bodies, Good morning! When In get well anough to sit up I will be glad soe vou ab the teraple.” And the minister curves foward the overhanging sides of and You hypocrite! One of $e ict, of religion is to heal wounds, on might have done here a kindness that would have been more acceptable to God than all the Incense that will smoke up from you censer fo the next three weeks, and you maimed tie chance. Go on your way —exe- by the centuries. afterward a Leovite came npon the ont the his way gone, of the tuziple and waited upon the priests i supplies of the temple, ovite, passing Tors this road where We are to-day, took a look at the mass of Drudees and tion in the middle of the road. My] my! says the Levite, “this is a hurt and he ought to be 1. Bub my business is to sing in the at the temple. If I am not there no will my Besides that there y not an kincense for the cen. sears and the wine or oil may have given out, and what a f balk in the service that would make. one of the priests might his predutpighy on crooked. But it seems bad to leave man in this condition, Perhaps | had better to stanch this bleeds and give him a littls stimulant. But no! ceremony at Jerusalem is of more im- wie nl rot oon be dead any how. hway robbery ought to d, for highway us Levi Now I must get you to #h» nearest tavern.” “Oh, no,” says the map, *‘I can't walk: lef me stay here and dle.” “Nonsense! sa the Samaritan. ‘You arenot going te dle. I am going to put you on this beast, and } will hold you on tll I get youtoa place where vou can have a soft mattress and ar easy pillow.” Now the Samaritan has got the wounded lifting puts him on the beast, for it is aston. down with scarlet fever, lift that half grows boy, heavier than herself, from couch to lounge. And so this sympathetic Samaritan has unaided put the wounded man in the saddle, and at slow pace the extemporized ambulance is moving toward the tavern, **You feel better now, I think,” says the Ba- | maritan to the Hebrew, Yes.” he save *[ i do feel better.” ‘‘Halloo, you landlord! help | me carry this man in and make him com- fortavle.” That night the Samaritan sat up | with the Jew, giving him water whenever he felt thirsty and turning his pillow when. ever it got hot, and in the morning before the Samaritan started on his journey he said, “Landlord, now I am obliged to go. Take good care of this man, and I will be tlong here soon again and pay you for all you do for him. Meanwhile here is some- thing to meet present expenses.” The “two | he gave the landiord sounds small but it was as much as ten dollars here and | now, considering what it would there and | As on that December noon we sat under : mercy had ocourred, and just having passed along the road where the tragedy had hap- story reenacted, and 1 said aloud to our group, under the tent: "One drop of prac- tical Christianity is worth more than & tem. pleful of ecclesinsticism, and that good Sa- | maritan had more religion in five minutes than that minister and that Levite had in a lifetime, and the most accursed thing on earth is national prejudice, and I bless God that I live in America, where Gentile and Jew, Protestant and Catholic can live to gether without quarrel, and where in the great national crucible the differences of sect and tribe and people are being molded into a great brotherhood, and that the question which the lawyer flung at Christ, and which brought forth this incident of the good Sa maritan—'Who i& my neighbor? fo bringing forth the answer, ‘My neighbor is the first man [ meet in trouble,’ and a wound close at band calls louder than a temple seventeen miles off, though it covered nineteen acres.” I saw in London the vast procession which one day last January mdved to St. Paul's Cathedral at the burial of that Christian hero Lord Napier. The day after at Hawar- den, in conversation on various themes I asked Mr. Gladstone if he did not think that many who were under the shadow of falsd religions might not nevertheless be at heart really Christian. Mr. Gladstone replied: “Wes; my old friend Lord Napier, who was yesterday buried, after helretu from his Abyvssiman campaign, visited us here at Hawarden, and walking in this park where wea are now walking he told me a very beau- tiful incident. He said: "After the war in Alrica was over we were on the march, and we had a soldier with a broken leg who wae not strong enough to go along with us, and we did not dare to leave him fo be taken care of by savages, but we found we were compelled to leave him, and we went into the house of 8 woman who was sid to bea very kind woman, though of the race of savages, and we said “Here is a sick man, and if you will take oare of him tii he gets well we will pay you very largely,” and then we offered ber five times that which would ordi sarily be offered, hoping by the excess of pay to secure for him great kindness. The woman replied: “I will not take care of him for the money you offer. I do not want your money. But leave him here, and I will take care of him for the sake of the love of God."'" Mr. Gladstone turned to me and sid, “Dr. Talmage, don't you think that though she belonged to a race of savages that was pure refigion”™ And [ answered, ‘Ido: 1 do.” May God multiply all the world over the number of good Sanaritans! in Philadelphia a young woman was dying. e was a wreck. BDunken into the depth ity, there was no lower 3 Word came to the n that she was dying rby. Who i t of Mary Magdalen? refused and that iare not go there.” A Christian weman, ber white locks typical of her purity of sot I, “Iwillgo and I w ro now.” t and sat down by the d hrist who ; bh was lost First to : fo tears of Yop smile, t } FeRCt ’ came to seek and save that the foriorn winitaboe, and as wagh sho had for the pardon of Him to the uttermost breathed her Inst she said to th f mercy bending over her pillow, “Would you kiss me” will” said the Christiap woman. as shoe put upon her cheek the last salutation before, in the heavenly world, I think, God gave her the welcoming iss. That was religion! Yes that was re- ligion, Good Samaritans along every strest and along every road as well as this one on the road to Jericho But our procession of sightscers is again in line, and hore we pass through a deep ravine and [ ery to thedragoman: “David, what piace do you eall this? and be re plied: “This is the Brook Cherith, where Eiijah was fed by the mavens” And in that answer he overthrew my life long notions of the place where Elijah was waited on by the black servants of the sky. A brook to me had meant a slight depression of ground and a stream fordable, and per. haps fifteen foot wide. But here was a chasm whic one with its biggest shovel or split with its mightiest battle ax. Bix hundred foet is it, and the brook Cherith is a river splitting the mountains into precipioes. feathered descendants of Elijah's ravens still their way across this ravine, but are not like the crows we su od them to be Fay areas large as hn and one of them carry in its beak and clinched claw at ones enough food for a half dozen Elijahs No thanks to the ravens; they are carniv- erous, and would rather have pieke! out the eyes of Elijah, whom they found at the mouth of thecave on the side of Cherith waiting for his breakfast, having drunk his morning beverage from the rushing stream beneath, than have been his butlers and purveyors. But God compelled them, as He always has com and always will compel black and Tang providences to to His children if they only have igh to catch Jha blguieig as it drops seoming adversity, gre ng iH Ih the horses not so much walk as side up on their haunches, and we all dismount, for the steep descent is simply terrific, though » Princess ofr Wallachia who fell hore and was dangerously injured, after recovery t a large amount money in trying to ake the road passable. Down and down! till we saw the white tents pitched for us by our mule- teors amid the ruins of ancient Jericho, which foll at the sound of poor music played on a ‘ram's horn,” that ancient instrument which, taken from the head of the leader of the flock of sheep, is perforated and pre- ared to be fingered by the musical per- ormer, and blown upon when pressed to the lips. As in another sermon I have ully de- scribed that scens, I will only say that every day for seven days the ministers of religion without the roll of & war chariot, or the stroke of a catapult, or the swing of a bal. lista, crash! crash! crash! went the walls of tbat magnificent capital! On the evening PD atiber 6 wo walked smid the brick and mortar of that shat. and 1 said to myself: All this done by poor music blest of God, for symbal, or an organ played, at the sour i the demolition of lace which, had for centur = Kimi hty, And I said, if « 01 essing of God on poor nusic, what mightier things could be de ae that wicked the ful music, gospel music. If all the good that has already been done by music were wlieve thre The ullabys of mothers which keep sounding sn, thurches and country meeting houses, and version in Seoteh kirks: io anthem in English cathedrals; the roll of sweep of the bow across bass viola, the song loxalogy of great assemblages—why, a thou- and Jerichos of sin have by them all Hoen wrought down. Seated by the warmth of our campfi hat evening of December 6, amid the brick wd debris of Jericho,and thinking what poc nusic has done and what mightier things Sod on good music, I sald to myself: Min. stors have been doing a Fron work, and wrmons have been blessed, but would 8 30t be wall for us to put more ap on nugic? Oh, tor a campaign of “Old Hun red” Oh, for a brigade of Mount Pls mbes! Ob, for a cavalry charge of “Corons- dons” Oh, for an army of Antiochs and 3t. Martins and Arfels! Ob, for emough irchestral batons lifted to marshal all ne- dons! As Jericho was surrounded by poor nusic for seven days, and was cong © let our orth be suviousided seven days food music, and round planet val rh for God. Not a wall of oppo- Shion, Dok a throne of tyranny, not a pal we of sin, not an enterprise of unrighteous. was, could stand the mighty throb of such tmospheric pulsation uso! It sounded laying of creation's corner stone vhen the morning stars sang . Music! It will be the last reverberation, when the archangel's trumpet shall wake he dead. Music! Let its full power be ww tested to comfort and bless and arouse Mil save While our evening meal ls being prepared n the tents we walk out for a moment to the “Fountain of Elisha.” the one into which the prophet threw the salt because the waters were poisonous and bitter, and lo! hey becmme sweet and healthy; and ever dnoe with gurgle and JaitLhaber, they have rushed down the hill and leaped from the rocks, the only cheerful object in all that fogion being these waters, Now on this plain of Jericho the sun is set. ing, making the mountains look like balus- irades and battlements of amber and maroon Three Arabw as watchmen sit camp fire at the door of ny tent their low conversation ia s strange Isnguage all night long =» wothing rather than an interruption, m the scene swuide the its past grandeur returned, and Jdeopatra and Herod bought {3 it to ( k And 1 heard the hoofs of its swift AST, rom i e shouts of excited spectators in its amphi And there was white marble amid green palm and balsam; cold stone ot mE Into soft Isce; lliads and Odysseys in basalt jot as the night mounted by iyed as though dipped in the blood of battls olds; robes encrusted with diamond: me mics white as sea foam flashed on by auroras: gayeties which the sun saw by day aded by moon saw by night; blashphemy wilt against the sky; ceilings stellar as the nidnight fen vens: gTan fours urroted, wrchivolted and intercolumnar: wickedness 0 appalling that established voonbuls ind we must make an adjective an Herodie The region round about the city walls woemed to me white with cotton such as Mhenius describes as once growing thera, ind ewoet with sugar cane, and luscious with swange and figs and pomegranates, and rodo. ent with such flora as can only grow where \ tropical sun kisses the earth, And the hows mme back to me when in the midst of ah hint splendor Herod died, commanding his ister Salome immediately after his death to woure the assassination of all the chief Jews shom be bad brought to the city and shut ip in a cirous for that purposs, and the news mme to the andience in the theatre as some me took the stage and announced to the ax. jited multitude: “Herod is dead! Herod i ead Then in my dream all the pomp of ferichn vanished, and gloosn was added to tloom, and desolation to desolation, and woe © woe, until, perhaps the rippling waters of the fountain of Elisha suggesting it—as wounds will sometimes give direction to a tream—I thought that the waters of Christ's mivation and the fountains “open for sin ind uncleanness” were rolling through that dain and across the continont, and roiling ound the earth, until on either side of their sanks all the thorns became flowers and Ul the deserts and all the mansions, and all the fu wrals bridal process.ons, and all the blood of into dahling and all the groans became anthems and Dante's “in erno” became Dante's “Divina Commedia,” wd “Paradise Lost” was submerged by ‘Paradise Regained” and tears became XR uals cruel swords came out of foundries » is the CONFIDENCES, Most of us have been conscious at one time or another of a burning desire to confide something to somebody, to pour our secret joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, into some friendly ear, and to receive, in exchange for the precious gift, that tender sympathy which is so Not a few of us have yielded to the irresistible impulse, and have told, in the haste of have afterwards repented at leisure in It is not wise to indulge too freely in cireum- the person in whom we confide, and can place some reliance on his fide 1n some genial soul, we are rarely whole world into of result our congenial soul, this is the that too often fol- lows, It is usually easy to receive oconfl- they “will betraving our friend's This is inconvenient and hu- to say; out somehow, and er in our keeping—our friend's confi- Some persons seem to have a mania for imparting confidences; they in the least matter what or to Such persons are apt to be terrible bores. once take vou into their confidence, and These do not interest you in the confidences into your restlessly Inck desire of than to realize that there is nothing personal in all this, and that Jack, Tom, or Harry would any, or all, of them—do just as well. When you once realize this, your last lingering shadow of interest dies out into helpless indifference, and you feel, snd small blame to you, that there is nothing sacred in such confidences as these, what is trivial and what has some tens ons to importance; they pour discrimination enough to keep silence a8 10 some rash admission that slips ou with the rest, some foolish repetition o things spoken in confidence. For there fruitful source of than the reckless repetition to the world of words spoken in confidence, n ADY excuse to say that the he done unwittingly, Want of often the OO0RA on Of mor respect than deliberate ir is far more diffienlt to cor Some persons, again, have as passions Ale a craving 10 receive confidences as others have to imps : Vv Bre always looking « and longing {or secre in heir ambi. tion to be in everybody's confidence, and their glory to say . “Oh, ves: I knew about it long ag Of course he told me.” Such people will a you at evervbody . . t i : Is no more mischief or re that it is very strange tl siways will tell them the private af- fairs—a conclusion at which yom have already arrived youself; and really they don't at all like the responsibility — which you may believe or not, as you please; but what can they do? If peo- ple will confide in you, you can’t help it, you know. And, after all, people must choose their own confidants: and You can’t help it if other people resent your knowing more than they do; and 80 on, in a strain of inane self-satisfac- of the whole subject. But one thing they do not tell vou, and that is the unwearied efforts by which they won-—or rather entrapped— the confidences they are so proud of. from the conversation around them, which will aid them in their unprinei- pled attempt to gratify their own idle curiosity and self-love by forcing a con- voluntarily bestowed upon them. They keep the ignominions cause to them- But sometimes it will happen that they fail to effect their object; try as they may, they cannot break through that they may be told more; fails to ocon- and they at length desist, angry and hmaifisted, fall of bitter wrath against the “apsurdity of some people, who make a mystery about every little thing; and make as much fuss about their ridienlous private af. fairs as though they were state secrets! Such miserable affectation, you know; as if suybody eared to hear about them, or would bo at the bother of ask- Or else they indulge in peevish com- Inints, and dwell much on ancient endship, and the frank intercourse aking, ath long, others, whom they concern, if possible, even less than themselves, Orif they | do not actually impart our seerets to would, 1t is an annoying thing to have our confidences claimed asa matter of right, We do not always feel that onr most intimate friends are those to whom we | would most williugly confide our anx. ities or troubles; they may have many admirable qualities, and yet be deficient in that tact and discretion which are the most indispensable qualifications for a confidant. An intimate aequaint- ance with some people—and these sometimes most amiable and attract- ive members of society—will by no menns predispose us to confide in { them. Quite the contrary; and we naturally feel it a little unreasonable that they should resent our reserve, and reproach us for our want of confidence. After { for it; their 1, “Peter sat in the midst of ther,? (1) Peter's seat; (2) Peter's roundings; (8) Peter's fap the midst of sinners; (2) verge of min, 2, “He denied, saying, Woman, I know him not.” (1) Peter's acs caser; (2) Peter's accusation; (3Y Peter's denial.—(1) The aceusi woman; (2) The denying man; (8) The denied Lord. 3, “He went out, and wept bitterly.” (1) Peter's sin; (2) Peter's sorrow, ~{1) Base denial; (2) Bitter tears 111, CONDEMNED BY THE ELDERS, I. The Council. The assembly of the gathered together (66), The rulers take counsel. ...agninst the elders... . was | } Lord (Pea. 2: 2). Took counsel against Jesus to put him to death (Matt, 27: 1. The whole council, held a consultation Mark: 15: 1). lence; butit would scarcely ters were we to tell them so; most garrulous persons those who most bitterly resent the im- help for the are 1 fore Pilat If thou art the Christ. tell ns (687). m of ni say that Pe is? (Mast, 16:13). tho man most eagerly elaim our confidences, are usually those who will most readily im- part them to others, SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Jesus Accused, LESSON TEXT. Mem LEX, (Luke 22 ; 54.71 wy verses: 05.70. LESSON PLAN. Toric or THE QUARTER: Saviour of Men, Goroex Texr ror THE QUARTER: Though he were a yom, yet learned he the JESUS ohedicrog by the things which he Jered. —Heb, 5 : 8, Bie Son's The Lesson Toric: Sorrows Multiplied, / r 1. Abused by His Foes, vs. fof, 600 Denied by His Friend, | Lesson OvrLINE:{ { He was wounded for wised for Goroex Tex: {| our { ansgressions, he was by our iniguitics,—Isa. 53 : 5, Dany Home ReEApIiNGs : M.—Luke 22 : 54-71. sorrows muliplied. T.— Matt. 57-75. paraliel narrative. W.—Matt. 14 : | parallel narrative, T.~John 18 7 The Bon's Matthew's <6 3-7 Mark's ] a 12-27. lel narrative. F.—Acts 2: 22.36. sufferings, Heb. 5: 1-14. Christ's sym- pathy with sufferers. 8.1 Pet. 4:1-19. Christ tern for sufferers, John's paral- S. a vat- Ae LESSON ANALYSIS ABUSED BY HIS POES, I. Rudely Arrested: . r seized him 545. He was numbered gregsors (Isa. 53 : 12 Th that had taken Away Matt, 2 3 ‘hey laid hands Mark 14 : 46). Jesus Jesus With | Then did they spitin him 7 him str Of We s healed { Matt. 26 : 67 The officers rec ived hin their bands (Mark 14 Pilate therefor: i i BCOUTR d him John 19 ; | 111, Bitteriy Paviled, | Many other things spake they against i him, reviling him (85). { Prophesy unto us, thon Christ | he thet struck thee? (Matt. 26: 68), They that passed by mailed on him, wagg ng their heads (Mark 15: 29), i They that were crucified with him re- { _ prosched him (Mark 15: 32). | Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again (1 Pet. 2: 28). 1. “They seized him, and led him away.” (1) The holy vi tim: The rude mob; (3) The base pur- pose. Jesus (1) Seized by the rab- dle; (2) Torn from his friends; (3) Led to his death. 2. **I'he men that held Jesus mocked him, and beat him.” (1) The un- resisting Jesus; (2) The abusive throng.—(1) Held; (2) Mocked; (3) Beaten. 3. “Many other things spake they against him, reviling ham.” (1) The revilers: (2) The revilings; (3) The reviled.-—(1) Speaking against Jesus; (2) Speaking for Jesus, il. DENIED BY HIS FRIEND, I. Evil Surroundings: { Peter sat in the midst of them (55). | Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful (Psa. 1: 1). Walk not in the way of evil men (Prov, 4: 14). Peter. . . sat with the officers, the end (Matt. 26: 58), Evil company doth corrupt good man- ners (1 Cor. 15: 38). Il. Cruel Denial: He denied, saying, Woman, I know him not (67). Before the cock crow, thon shalt deny me thrice (Malt. 26: 34). Even if 1 must die with thee, yet will I als deny "Shon (Matt, 26: >). © began curse, An SWOAr, know not this man (Mark 14: 71 1f we shall fony him, he also de- ny us (2 Tim. 2: 12). 111, Bitter Repentance: He went out, sad wept bitterly (82), My bones waxed old through roar- % Pea. 39: 5). and all the day long ( Eau lifted > his voice, 1 with blows » 65). who is 3% {a} to see son of God Art thou the Blessed? (Mark 14: 61. The high priest asked Jesus teachung (John (18: 19). 3 3:65). of the on his Il. The Conclusion: We ourselves have heard from his own month (71) Behold, now ye have heard the blas- phemy ( Matt, 26: 65). Th 3 all condemned him to be worthy of death (Mark 14: 64). The chief priests accused him of things (Mark 15: 8). Ye by the hand of lawless 1 crucify and slay (Acts 2: 28). nany nen did 1. “They led him away into their council.’ 1} The captive; (2) The council; (3) The conclusion. “From henceforth shall the Son of man be seated at the i hand of God.” (1) The Son's posi- tion; (2) The Son's prospect.—The Bon (1) At the tribunal of men; At the throne of God. , **Art thou then the Bon of God?” (1) The vital question; (2) The ss- suring answer.—8Son of God: (1) Import of the title; (2) Acceptance of the title. ns A API ¢ (2 LESSON BIBLE READING, DENYING CHRIST, Denying him in person (Lake 22 : 54 62; John 18 : 40; Acts 3 : 18, 14 Denying his doctrines (Mark 8: 88; 2 | Tim. 1:8). | Denying his followers (Matt. 25 : 45; 2 Tim. 4-16). | Denying by works (Titus 1 : 16) |A work of evil men (2 Pet. 2 i Jude 4). A mark of d : 3. 1; Antichrist (1 John “2d i 1 John 2 : 23). (Matt. 10 :33 ; Indicates vital defect denied Denters will be a Tm. 2:12) talaw i0LOWS —-— LESSON SURROUNDINGS. speak- events, is directly connected But parallel with ¢ there are many { details narrated by the other evangel- sts. Mark tells of a young man (p« i } ify who Was seized by the i away naked. n at this point, how- to the number of Jewish authorities, unis to two; while 1324 as a before Annas, accept one before Annas tix Siri tix INTERVENING EVENTS. ~ re are verse Od | with what precedes ff] eT re { ing, { Bink } mtervening BE] ~ { Some this refer | one hearing: others sacecept those who regard i distinet throe examinati (Jobni: & second, informal at night, before aing has and members of the Ranh Matthew, Mark): and a third apd formal one in the morning (Luke). Matthew and Mark seem to imply a morning meeting of the Sanhedrin. On this theory, the order of events would be: Jesus is led to Annas; Peter fol- lows afar off, then enters the court {first denial); Jesus is led to Caiaphas, probably in the same house; Peter's second denial; the trial befor. Caiaphas; Peter's third denial; the mocking by the officers; the morning trial, narrated in the lesson. The main difficulty is regarding the hearing before Annas. The Author- ized Version translates John 18:24, “had sent” (which is not literal). to imply that the previous verses refer to Calaphas. On the other had, if John 18 : 19-24 refers to a hearing before Annas, John calls him “the high priest.” Prace. — The paisce of the high. priest was the scene of Peter's denials, ‘also of the night trial, and in all prob- ability of the morning trial. The site of this palace is unknown. Others think the formal trial in the morning was held in the regular place of moet- ing, “the room Gazith, at the east cor- ner of the court of the temple.” True, «Between midnight and early morning of Friday, the 15th of Nisan, 783 A, U, C.; that is, April 7, A. D. 30, Prrsoxs. Peter, the erowd in the high-priest’s palsce, a certain maid, two men who successively recognized Peter, the Lord Jesus and those who maltreated him, the Sanhedrin. Inciorxts, —The eapture of Jesus, who is taken to the high riost's house; Peter follows afar off, in to warm himself at the fire kin in the court, ig three times gntged, and demes i three times; the Lord looks on him, Peter remembers the prodie- tion, and out and weeps ntterly. The atten Tome mook Jesus, ask lnm to phesy, and maltreat him with hand hearing ns » one, Tore (arin
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