Psa 2:1-3, 59:3, 71:10, 140:2, Mat 26:3-4, 57, 27:1, Act 4:5-6, 23:12-14 | TSK | STEP | The kingdom of Christ. Kings are exhorted to accept it. A.M. 2963. B.C. 1042. Why. rage. or, tumultuously assemble. people. imagine. Heb. meditate.

Caiaphas.This was Joseph, surnamed Caiaphas, who succeeded Simon son of Camith, in the high-priesthood, about A.D. 25. About two years after our Lord's death, he was deposed by Vitellius governor of Syria; and unable to bear his disgrace, and perhaps the stings of conscience for the murder of Christ, he killed himself about A.D. 35.

Joh 11:49; 18:13,14,24; Ac 4:5,6

consulted.

Ps 2:2

by.

23:33; Ge 3:1; Ac 7:19; 13:10; 2Co 11:3

Matthew 26:57

Ps 56:5,6; Mr 14:53,54; Lu 22:54,55; Joh 11:49; 18:12-14,24

Matthew 27:1

1 Christ is delivered bound to Pilate.

3 Judas hangs himself.

19 Pilate, admonished of his wife,

20 and being urged by the multitude, washes his hands, and looses Barabbas.

27 Christ is mocked and crowned with thorns;

33 crucified;

39 reviled;

50 dies, and is buried;

62 his sepulchre is sealed and watched.

the morning.

Jud 16:2; 1Sa 19:11; Pr 4:16-18; Mic 2:1; Lu 22:66; Ac 5:21

all.

23:13; 26:3,4; Ps 2:2; Mr 15:1; Lu 23:1,2; Joh 18:28; Ac 4:24-28

Acts 4:5-6

on.

5:20,21; Mic 2:1; Mt 27:1,2

rulers.

8; 5:34; 6:12; Isa 1:10; Mr 15:1; Lu 20:1; 22:66; 24:20

Annas.

Lu 3:2; Joh 11:49; 18:13,14,24

Acts 23:12-14

certain.

21,30; 25:3; Ps 2:1-3; 64:2-6; Isa 8:9,10; Jer 11:19; Mt 26:4

bound.

1Ki 19:2; 2Ki 6:31; Mt 27:25; Mr 6:23-26

under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.

Le 27:29; Jos 6:26; 7:1,15; Ne 10:29; Mt 26:74; *Gr:

1Co 16:22; Ga 3:13

that.Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch. 25:2, 3.) If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud.

1Sa 14:24,27,28,40-44; Ps 31:13

which.

2Sa 15:12,31; Joh 16:2

Ps 52:1,2; Isa 3:9; Jer 6:15; 8:12; Ho 4:9; Mic 7:3