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Peter went out, and wept bitterly'. (See also Matt. 26:75; John 18:27).--
Mark 14:72, 'The second time the cock crew, and Peter called to mind the word
that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me
thrice'.
§ 4.
The circumstances, place, and manner of his sufferings
(i)
That he should suffer
Prophecy.-- Matthew 16:21; Mark 8:31; Luke 9:22, 'Jesus began to teach
and to show his disciples, how that he, the Son of Man, must go unto
Jerusalem, and suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief
priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day'.--
Mark 9:31; Matthew 17:22,23, 'The Son of Man shall be delivered into the
hands of men; and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall
rise the third day'.-- Mark 10:33,34; Matthew 20:18,19; Luke 18:31 -33,
'Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and all things that are written in the
prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished: and the Son of Man
shall be betrayed, and delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the
scribes; and they shall condemn him unto death, and shall deliver him unto
the Gentiles. And they shall mock and spitefully entreat him, and shall
scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him, and crucify him;
and the third day he shall rise again'.
Fulfilment.-- John 11:53, 'They took counsel together for to put him to
death'.-- Matthew 26:4; Mark 14:1; Luke 22:2, 'And consulted how they might
take Jesus by subtilty and put him to death'.-- Matthew 26:66; Mark 14:64;
Luke 22:71, 'They answered and said, "He is guilty of death" ... and they all
condemned him to be guilty of death'.-- Matthew 27:26; Luke 23:24; John
19:16, 'When he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified'.-- John
19:17,18; Matthew 27:35; Luke 23:33, '... Golgotha, where they crucified him,
and two others with him'.-- Luke 24:6,7,26,46, 'Remember how he spake unto
you when he was yet in Galilee, saying, "The Son of Man must be delivered
into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again"
... "Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?" ... Thus it behoved
Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day'.-- Acts 2:23, 'Him
... ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain'.-- Acts
13:27, 'They have fulfilled (the prophecies) in condemning him'.-- Acts 17:3,
(Paul opened and alleged out of the Scriptures) 'That Christ must needs have
suffered and risen again from the dead'.-- Galatians 3:1, '... Christ hath
evidently been set forth crucified among you'.
(ii)
The place where he should suffer, viz. at Jerusalem
Prophecy.-- Matthew 16:21; Luke 9:31, 'He must go unto Jerusalem and
suffer'.-- Luke 13:31,33, 'Herod will kill thee'. 'It cannot be that a
prophet perish out of Jerusalem'.-- Luke 18:31; Matthew 20:18, 'We go up to
Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son
of Man shall be accomplished'.
Fulfilment.-- Luke 24:18, 'Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and
hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?' (See
also Matt. 27; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 19).-- Acts 13:27, 'They that dwell at
Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voice of
the prophets which are read every Sabbath -day, they have fulfilled them in
condemning him'.-- Hebrews 13:12, 'Jesus ... suffered without the gate'.