might betray him unto them'.-- Matthew 26:14,15, 'Then Judas went unto the

chief priests, and said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver

him unto you?  And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver'.--

Matthew 27:3 -7, 'Then Judas, who had betrayed him brought again the thirty

pieces of silver, saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent

blood; and he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed and

went and hanged himself.  And the chief priests took the silver, and they

said, It is not lawful to put it into the treasury, because it is the price

of blood.  And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to

bury strangers in'.

§ 13.

Prophecy.-- Psalm 22:16,17, 'For dogs (that is, the Heathens whom the

Jews call dogs) have compassed me; the assembly of the wicked have inclosed

me; they pierced my hands and my feet.  I may tell all my bones; they look

and stare upon me'.-- Isaiah 50:6, 'I gave my back to the smiters, and my

cheek to them that plucked off the hair.  I hid not my face from shame and

spitting'.-- Isaiah 53:5,8, 'He was wounded for our transgressions: he was

bruised for our iniquities; by his stripes we are healed'.  'He was cut off

out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he

stricken'.-- Isaiah 53:12, 'And He bare the sin of many'.

Fulfilment.-- John 19:1 -3, 'Then Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him.

And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns,-- and they smote him with the

palms of their hands'.-- Matthew 27:30; Mark 15:19, 'And they did spit upon

him and smote him on the head'.-- Mark 15:25, 'And they crucified him'.-- 1

Peter 2:23,24, 'Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he

suffered, he threatened not'.  'Who bare our sins in his own body on the tree

(the cross)'.

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Prophecy.-- Psalm 22:12,13,7,8, 'Many bulls have compassed me; strong

bulls of Bashan -- (that is, the wicked and furious Jews, who like the beasts

fattened on the fertile plains of Bashan, "waxed fat and kicked"; -- became

proud and rebellious)-- have beset me round.  They gaped upon me with their

mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion'.  'All they that see me, laugh me

to scorn: they shoot out the lip, saying, He trusted in God that he would

deliver him; let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him'.

Fulfilment.-- Matthew 27:39,41,42; Mark 15:31,32; Luke 23:35 -37, 'And

they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads'.  'Likewise also the

chief priests, and the rulers also with them, derided, and mocking, said

among themselves, with the scribes and elders, "He saved others, himself he

cannot save; if he be the Christ, the chosen of God, let him now come down

from the cross, and save himself, that we may see, and we will believe him.

He trusted in God, let him deliver him now if He will have him".  And the

soldiers also mocked him,-- saying, "If thou be the king of the Jews, save

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