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(iii)
The persons by whom he was to suffer, viz. particularly by the Chief
Priests and Gentiles
(a)
By the Chief Priests
Prophecy.-- Matthew 16:21; Mark 8:31; Luke 9:22, 'He must suffer many
things of the elders and chief priests and scribes'.-- Matthew 17:12,
'Likewise shall also the Son of Man suffer of them'.-- Mark 10:33, 'The Son
of Man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and to the scribes, and they
shall condemn him to death'.
Fulfilment.-- Matthew 26:3,4; John 11:53, 'Then assembled together the
chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people, unto the palace
of the high priest who was called Caiaphas; and consulted that they might
take Jesus by subtilty and kill him'.-- John 18:13,24; Matthew 26:57, 'They
led him away to Annas first'. 'Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas
the high priest'.-- Matthew 26:65,66; Mark 14:64, 'The high priest rent his
clothes, saying, "He hath spoken blasphemy,-- what think ye?" They answered
and said, "He is guilty of death"'.-- Matthew 27:20; Luke 23:18, 'The chief
priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and
destroy Jesus'.-- Luke 24:20; Acts 13:28, 'The chief priests and our rulers
delivered him to be condemned to death'.
(b)
By the Gentiles
Prophecy.-- Luke 18:31,32; Mark 10:33; Matthew 20:19, 'The Son of Man
shall be delivered to the Gentiles'. (Note, that when Jesus foretold that he
should be crucified, it also implied that he should be delivered to the
Gentiles; for crucifixion was a Roman not a Jewish punishment).
Fulfilment.-- Acts 13:28, 'Though they found no cause of death in him,
yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain'.-- Matthew 27:2; Mark 15:1,
'They delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor'.-- John 18:31,32, 'Pilate
said unto them, "Take ye him, and judge him according to your law". The Jews
therefore said unto him, "It is not lawful for us to put any man to death";
that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled'.-- Mark 15:15; Luke 23:24,
'Pilate delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified'.-- Acts
4:27, 'Against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and
Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered
together'.