The Trial of Jesus Christ (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FOUR NARRATIVES. Matthew And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people. . . . Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him. ... In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me ? I sat daily teaching in the temple, and ye took me not. . . . And they that had taken Jesus led him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were gathered together. . . . Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death; and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two, and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus saith And straightway, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, amd with him a multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. . . . And they laid hands on him, and took him. . . . And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, aa against a robber, with swords and staves to seize me ? I was daily with you iu the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but this is don?, that the scriptures might be fulfilled. . . . And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and there come together with him all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes. . . . Now the chief priests and the whol...