Journal: Bibliotheca Sacra
Volume: BSAC 39:156 (Oct 1882)
Article: The Trial Of Christ: A Diatessaron With Dissertations
Author: Henry Clay Vedder

BSac 39:156 (Oct 1882) p. 648

The Trial Of Christ:1 A Diatessaron With Dissertations

Henry C. Vedder

Diatessaron2

[Matt 26:47. Mark 14:43. Luke 22:47. John 18:3–12.] And immediately, while he is still speaking, cometh Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, and with lanterns and torches, having received the band and officers from the chief priests and scribes and pharisees and elders of the people. Then the band and the captain and the officers of the Jews took Jesus and bound him.

[John 18:13-14. And they led him to Annas first, for he was father-in-law to Caiaphas, who was high-priest that year. Now Caiaphas was he ‘‘who gave counsel to the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

[Matt, 26:57. Mark 14:53. Luke 22:54. John 18:19–24.] And they that had laid hold of Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high-priest, where the chief priests and the scribes and the elders assembled. The high-priest then asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine. Jesus answered him: I have spoken openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort; and in secret have I said nothing. Why askest thou me? Ask them who heard me what I have said unto them. Behold! They know what I said. And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers who stood by smote Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high-priest so? Jesus answered him: If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me? Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas, the high-priest.

Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrim kept seeking3 for false witness against Jesus, in order to put him to death, and found none.

BSac 39:156 (Oct 1882) p. 649

[Matt. 26:59–66. Mark 14:55–64.] For many kept testifying falsely4 against him, yet their testimony agreed not. At last there came two and bare false witness against him, s...