43 And he came and found them a Deep again: for their 4 eyes were heavy. 44 And he left them,and went away again, and praied the third time, faying the fame words. 45 Then cometh he to his difciples, Sleep on now & take the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the and faith unto them, your reft; behold, hands of Sinners. 43. Then returning to his Difciples, he found them again fleeping; For it was late in the Night, and they were very weary and fleepy. 44. Again, leaving them the third time, he went and prayed to the fame import as before; fubmitting himself wholly to the Divine Will and Pleasure. his Difciples, and finding 45. And returning to them the third time fleeping, he faid; What, +are ye yet overcome with fleep and drowfinefs? Nay, ye may e'en fleep on now; I have Conquer'd my Agony, and 'tis too late for your Watching to be any comfort or affiftance to me now: The time of my Suffering is come, and I am juft going to be betray'd into the hands of Wicked and Malicious Men. +Thefe Words may either be Read Interrogatively, KadéUDETE TÒ Nomov, Sc. Do ye yet fleep? or else they must be understood Ironically, and by way of Reproof. I have expreffed both Sences in the Paraphrafe. 46. Come, 46. Come, rife, let us go; he that betrays me, is juft upon us. 47. Scarce had Jefus faid thefe Words, when fuddenly Judas appeared, conducting a great number of Officers Armed with Swords and Staves, who were fent from the chief Priefts and Elders to seize Jefus in his private Retirement, Judas having undertaken to be their guide. 48. Now because the Officers did not know Jefus's Face, and it was alfo Night; therefore, that they might not mistake the Perfon, Judas had given them a Token, that when he came at Jefus, he would Salute him with a Kifs; by which fign they should know him, and not fail to apprehend and fecure. him. 49. Coming up therefore to Jefus, he according to the appointed Signal,Saluted and Kiffed him. 50. Jefus, knowing his Defign, reproved his Ingratitude with this gentle, yet fevere Rebuke; Friend, wherefore come you attended in this manner? But while he was fpeaking, the Officers feized him, and began to carry him away. 51. Then Peter, seeing to what extremity things tended; out of great zeal for his Mafters fafety drew his Sword, and ftriking at one of the High Priests Servants, cut off a piece of his ear. 52. But Jefus forbad him to make use of his Sword, faying; These are not the Weapons which my Difciples must use: They who are impatient and paffionate, and ready upon every Provocation to run to the Sword, fhall themselves be liable to perish by the Sword. Our part is to overcome, not by fighting, but by Pati ence and Suffering. 53. Otherwife, If I had defigned to refift these Men, and wanted affiftance to Conquer them, do you not think I could eafily have pray'd to God, (and can even yet do it, if I thought it Expedient) and he would prefently have sent me an Army of Angels to deftroy them? 54. But how then fhould the will of God and the Predictions of the Prophets have been fulfilled? For God fent me into the World, to Suffer and Die, and the Prophets have foretold, that I fhould do fo; and all these things muft needs be accomplished. 55. Then Jefus turning himself to the Multitude, faid; What makes you come out against me in the Night, with a Band of Soldiers, Armed with Swords and Clubs, as if ye came to apprehend a Robber that would make strong Refiftance? Did I not every Day fit openly Teaching 56. But now is the Time, wherein the Infinite Wifdom of God has appointed me to Suffer; and all these things ought thus to come to pass, that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. Then all the Disciples, feeing there was no Remedy, and that Jefus himself would not fuffer them to try to Rescue him, forfook him and fled. had apprehended Jesus, 57. ¶ Now they that carried him to Caiaphas the High Prieft, in whose House the Council of the Scribes and Elders were ready gathered together. Teyors, which we render was done, may as properly be rendered is done: And then thefe will be the Words, not of the Evangelift, but of Chrift; See.Luc. 22. 53. But the Sense is the same either way. |