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. 1905 Excerpt: ...In S. Matthew, however, as in S. Mark, a singular fact is to be noted. It is that, after relating the examination and the decision taken, the two Evangelists add that early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole council held a consultation. It would appear from this, therefore, that ...
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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. 1905 Excerpt: ...In S. Matthew, however, as in S. Mark, a singular fact is to be noted. It is that, after relating the examination and the decision taken, the two Evangelists add that early in the morning the chief priests with the elders and scribes and the whole council held a consultation. It would appear from this, therefore, that the Sanhedrin held a second meeting in the morning because it had first met during the night, and that it was only at the morning sitting that a definitive resolution was taken against Jesus.3 Certainly the detail mentioned by S. Matthew and S. Mark is curious, but the question can only be solved by confirming the statement made by these two Evangelists themselves--namely, that the sentence on Jesus was pronounced at night-time. S. Mark, after having stated that the meeting of the Sanhedrin and the sentence occurred before cockcrow, mentions a fresh meeting: "And straightway in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole council, held a consultation and bound Jesus and carried Him away and delivered Him up to Pilate." 4 Now it is clear to any one who studies the language of the text that at this stage there was no question whatever of the charges against Jesus, which the Evangelist, moreover, relates had been already formally stated, so that the chief priests and others merely met for the second time in order to confer before sending the condemned prisoner before the Roman procurator. The motive of this conference cannot appear inexplicable, when it is remembered that the council had to find out the best means of inducing the procurator to deal with the charge that was within his sole jurisdiction, and that in any case had to be presented to him as just and well founded. S. Matthew, after closing his narr...
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