eyes'.-- Isaiah 32:3, 'The eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the

ears of them that hear shall hearken'.-- Isaiah 29:18, 'The deaf shall hear

the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity

and darkness'.

Fulfilment.-- Matthew 11:4,5, 'Jesus ... said, Go and shew John again

those things which ye do hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and the

lame walk; the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised

up'.-- Luke 7:21, 'In that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and

plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight'.--

Matthew 4:23,24, 'Jesus went about all Galilee ... healing all manner of

sickness and all manner of disease among the people ... They brought unto him

all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those

which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those

that had the palsy; and he healed them'.-- Matthew 15:30,31, 'And great

multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb,

maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus's feet; and he healed

them: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak,

the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see'.-- Acts 2:22,

'Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders

and signs; which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also

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§ 11.

Prophecy.-- Zechariah 9:9, 'Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Jerusalem,

behold thy King cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly,

and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass'.

Fulfilment.-- Matthew 21:6 -10, 'The disciples -- brought the ass, and

the colt, and put on them their clothes, and set him (Jesus) thereon (that

is, upon the clothes).  And great multitudes spread their garments', etc.

etc.-- Matthew 21:4,5, 'All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which

was spoken by the prophet, saying, Tell ye the daughter of Sion, "Behold thy

king cometh"', etc. etc.

§ 12.  That the Messiah should be poor and despised, and be betrayed by one

of his own disciples for thirty pieces of silver (at that time the ordinary

price of the vilest slave); with which the potter's field should be purchased

Prophecy.-- Isaiah 53:2,3, 'There is no beauty that we should desire

him.  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted

with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from him: he was despised, and we

esteemed him not'.-- Psalm 41:9 and Psalm 55:12 -14, 'Yea, mine own familiar

friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, hath lift up his heel

against me'.-- Zechariah 11:12, 'So they weighed for my price thirty pieces

of silver'.-- Zechariah 11:13, 'And the Lord said unto me, Cast it unto the

potter: a goodly price that I was prised (priced) at of them.  And I took the

thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the

Fulfilment.-- Luke 9:58, 'The Son of Man hath not where to lay his

head'.-- 2 Corinthians 8:9, 'For your sakes he became poor'.-- John 11:35,

'Jesus wept'.-- Luke 22:3,4, 'Then Satan entered into Judas, being one of the

twelve; and he went his way, and communed with the chief priests, how he