This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...vain. He said: "Let these words sink into your ears: for the Son of Man shall be delivered up into the hands of men." And indeed he did teach to a great extent in vain. Concerning this very communication, Luke says: "They understood not this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it: and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...vain. He said: "Let these words sink into your ears: for the Son of Man shall be delivered up into the hands of men." And indeed he did teach to a great extent in vain. Concerning this very communication, Luke says: "They understood not this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it: and they were afraid to ask him about this saying." And yet how explicit he had made it! Mark gives it more fully than Luke, adding: " And they shall kill him; and when he is killed, after three days he shall rise again." What could be plainer? And they did understand enough to be, as Matthew says, " exceeding sorry." But it needed the actual accomplished fact to make the Lord's meaning fully clear. If the fact had not followed, the prediction would of course never have been understood; nor, also of course, would it ever have been recorded. It testifies to the unalterable sanity and sobriety of spirit, stedfastly maintained at this time by Jesus against the naturally exalting effect of an experience on his part like the Transfiguration, followed by that easy and absolute triumph of his over the powers of evil at the foot of the mountain, that, while the awe of astonishment at him was still casting unbroken its spell on the minds of observers, he himself, on the other hand, was capable of calmly discoursing on the subject of the unspeakable agony and shame that awaited him. Another proof of the same equipoise in him was his conduct when the question of the "half-shekel" came up. The half-shekel was a tax for the temple, payable in Hebrew coin only, and due from every male Israelite of age. The collectors asked Peter, " Doth not your Master pay the half-shekel?" Peter said, Yes. But when he...
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