Matthew 26:2

YE KNOW THAT AFTER TWO DAYS IS THE FEAST OF THE PASSOVER, AND THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED TO BE CRUCIFIED. Jesus had begun His last great discourse to His disciples immediately after leaving the Temple, chapter 24:2, and had continued it on Mount Olivet and also on the way to His lodging-place in Bet... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:3

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,... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:5

BUT THEY SAID, NOT ON THE FEAST-DAY, LEST THERE BE AN UPROAR AMONG THE PEOPLE. Matthew purposely places the two events side by side: Jesus, out in Bethany, solemnly declaring that He is being delivered to be crucified; the chief priests together with the chief council of the Jews, the Sanhedrin, mee... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:7

THERE CAME UNTO HIM A WOMAN HAVING AN ALABASTER BOX OF VERY PRECIOUS OINTMENT, AND POURED IT ON HIS HEAD AS HE SAT AT MEAT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:9

FOR THIS OINTMENT MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR MUCH AND GIVEN TO THE POOR. In order to complete his narrative, Matthew here relates a happening of the previous Saturday, John 12:1. When Christ came up to Bethany from Jericho, He took dinner with one Simon, otherwise unknown, who had formerly been a lepe... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:13

VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, WHERESOEVER THIS GOSPEL SHALL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD, THERE SHALL ALSO THIS, THAT THIS WOMAN HATH DONE, BE TOLD FOR A MEMORIAL OF HER. Whether these remarks were made in a subdued tone of voice so as to be inaudible to Christ, or whether He was so engrossed with His th... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:15

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.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:16

AND FROM THAT TIME HE SOUGHT OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY HIM. There is a world of significance in the expression "one of the Twelve. " One of those whom Jesus chose out of the larger circle of His disciples; one of those whom He had with Him for three years, in the intimacy of the communion which obtains... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:17

NOW THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD THE DISCIPLES CAME TO JESUS, SAYING UNTO HIM, WHERE WILT THOU THAT WE PREPARE FOR THEE TO EAT THE PASSOVER?... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:18

AND HE SAID, GO INTO THE CITY TO SUCH A MAN AND SAY UNTO HIM, THE MASTER SAITH, MY TIME IS AT HAND; I WILL KEEP THE PASSOVER AT THY HOUSE WITH MY DISCIPLES.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:19

AND THE DISCIPLES DID AS JESUS HAD APPOINTED THEM; AND THEY MADE READY THE PASSOVER. The Passover was also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Luke 22:1, and since all leaven was removed from the homes of the Jews on the afternoon of the 14 th of Nisan, in preparation for the Passover sacrific... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:24

THE SON OF MAN GOETH AS IT IS WRITTEN OF HIM; BUT WOE UNTO THAT MAN BY WHOM THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED! IT HAD BEEN GOOD FOR THAT MAN IF HE HAD NOT BEEN BORN.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:25

THEN JUDAS, WHICH BETRAYED HIM, ANSWERED AND SAID, MASTER, IS IT I? HE SAID UNTO HIM, THOU HAST SAID. By sundown all the lambs that had been presented in the Temple-courts had been slain, and throughout the city of Jerusalem the little bands of ten to twenty Jews gathered about the commemorative mea... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:26

AND AS THEY WERE EATING, JESUS TOOK BREAD, AND BLESSED IT, AND BRAKE IT, AND GAVE IT TO THE DISCIPLES, AND SAID, TAKE, EAT; THIS IS MY BODY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:29

BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK HENCEFORTH OF THIS FRUIT OF THE VINE UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHER'S KINGDOM. The sacrament of the Old Covenant had just been celebrated by Christ, for He did not come to change the essence of the old faith, which is the same for all ti... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:31

THEN SAITH JESUS UNTO THEM, ALL YE SHALL BE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF ME THIS NIGHT; FOR IT IS WRITTEN, I WILL SMITE THE SHEPHERD, AND THE SHEEP OF THE FLOCK SHALL BE SCATTERED ABROAD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:35

PETER SAID UNTO HIM, THOUGH I SHOULD DIE WITH THEE, YET WILL I NOT DENY THEE. LIKEWISE ALSO SAID ALL THE DISCIPLES. The concluding section of the great Hallel was sung after the close of the paschal meal, a solemn thanksgiving to God for all His gifts of goodness and mercy. Then Jesus led the way ou... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:36

THEN COMETH JESUS WITH THEM UNTO A PLACE CALLED GETHSEMANE, AND SAITH UNTO THE DISCIPLES, SIT YE HERE WHILE I GO AND PRAY YONDER.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:38

THEN SAITH HE UNTO THEM, MY SOUL IS EXCEEDING SORROWFUL, EVEN UNTO DEATH; TARRY YE HERE AND WATCH WITH ME. Gethsemane, valley of the oil-press, was a small country-place with a large garden of olive-trees, well known also to Judas, because it was a favorite haven of seclusion of the Lord. With a ful... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:39

AND HE WENT A LITTLE FARTHER, AND FELL ON HIS FACE, AND PRAYED, SAYING, O MY FATHER, IF IT BE POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME; NEVERTHELESS NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS THOU WILT.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:41

WATCH AND PRAY, THAT YE ENTER NOT INTO TEMPTATION; THE SPIRIT INDEED IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK. Leaving even His favorite disciples, though near the place where He was going, He felt constrained to be all alone with the horrors of death and hell, with the realization of the unquenchable wrat... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:42

HE WENT AWAY AGAIN THE SECOND TIME AND PRAYED, SAYING, O MY FATHER, IF THIS CUP MAY NOT PASS AWAY FROM ME EXCEPT I DRINK IT, THY WILL BE DONE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:44

AND HE LEFT THEM, AND WENT AWAY AGAIN, AND PRAYED THE THIRD TIME, SAYING THE SAME WORDS. The Holy One of God was here almost submerged in the flood of grief and bitterness which threatened to engulf Him. Fearfulness and trembling had come upon Him, and horror had overwhelmed Him, Psalms 55:5, the ho... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:45

THEN COMETH HE TO HIS DISCIPLES AND SAITH UNTO THEM, SLEEP ON NOW AND TAKE YOUR REST; BEHOLD, THE HOUR IS AT HAND, AND THE SON OF MAN IS BETRAYED INTO THE HANDS OF SINNERS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:46

RISE, LET US BE GOING; BEHOLD, HE IS AT HAND THAT DOTH BETRAY ME. Without respite, without aid had His harassed soul wrestled with death and hell. And His body was wearied to the point of utter exhaustion. Dragging Himself back finally to His sleeping disciples, He tells them, not in irony or with... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:47

AND WHILE HE YET SPAKE, LO, JUDAS, ONE OF THE TWELVE, CAME, AND WITH HIM A GREAT MULTITUDE WITH SWORDS AND STAVES, FROM THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:50

AND JESUS SAID UNTO HIM, FRIEND, WHEREFORE ART THOU COME? THEN CAME THEY, AND LAID HANDS ON JESUS, AND TOOK HIM. While Jesus was still urging His disciples to shake off the drowsiness to which they had given way, Judas came. One of the Twelve he is called, to heighten the effect of the contrast: A c... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:51

AND, BEHOLD, ONE OF THEM WHICH WERE WITH JESUS STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND, AND DREW HIS SWORD, AND STRUCK A SERVANT OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S, AND SMOTE OFF HIS EAR.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:52

THEN SAID JESUS UNTO HIM, PUT UP AGAIN THY SWORD INTO HIS PLACE; FOR ALL THEY THAT TAKE THE SWORD SHALL PERISH WITH THE SWORD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:54

BUT HOW THEN SHALL THE SCRIPTURES BE FULFILLED, THAT THUS IT MUST BE? Due to a misunderstanding of Christ's words concerning the necessity of being effectively prepared against all enemies, Luke 22:36, the disciples had provided two swords. In the excitement of the moment, a carnal anger which can v... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:55

IN THAT SAME HOUR SAID JESUS TO THE MULTITUDES, ARE YE COME OUT AS AGAINST A THIEF WITH SWORDS AND STAVES FOR TO TAKE ME? I SAT DAILY WITH YOU TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE, AND YE LAID NO HOLD ON ME.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:56

BUT ALL THIS WAS DONE THAT THE SCRIPTURES OF THE PROPHETS MIGHT BE FULFILLED. THEN ALL THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK HIM AND FLED. Christ's point is well taken, especially since He addressed these words chiefly to the rulers and to the guards of the Temple. Their manner of apprehending Him was an insult to... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:57

AND THEY THAT HAD LAID HOLD ON JESUS LED HIM AWAY TO CAIAPHAS, THE HIGH PRIEST, WHERE THE SCRIBES AND THE ELDERS WERE ASSEMBLED.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:58

BUT PETER FOLLOWED HIM AFAR OFF UNTO THE HIGH PRIEST'S PALACE, AND WENT IN, AND SAT WITH THE SERVANTS TO SEE THE END. The palace of Caiaphas, according to most investigators, lay at the extreme southwest corner of the city of Jerusalem. It was evidently built in the form of a quadrangle about an ope... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:63

BUT JESUS HELD HIS PEACE. AND THE HIGH PRIEST ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, I ADJURE THEE BY THE LIVING GOD THAT THOU TELL US WHETHER THOU BE THE CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:64

JESUS SAITH UNTO HIM, THOU HAST SAID; NEVERTHELESS I SAY UNTO YOU, HEREAFTER SHALL YE SEE THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE RIGHT HAND OF POWER, AND COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. Note: The enumeration of the several sections of the Sanhedrin brings out all the more strongly the injustice of the procee... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:65

THEN THE HIGH PRIEST RENT HIS CLOTHES, SAYING, HE HATH SPOKEN BLASPHEMY; WHAT FURTHER NEED HAVE WE OF WITNESSES? BEHOLD, NOW YE HAVE HEARD HIS BLASPHEMY.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:68

SAYING, PROPHESY UNTO US, THOU CHRIST, WHO IS HE THAT SMOTE THEE? It was the sign of the greatest grief, of the deepest mourning, for a Jew to tear open his outer garment. Here was an act of theatrical affectation without true emotion. He is shocked beyond measure, so he declares by his action, by t... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:71

AND WHEN HE WAS GONE OUT INTO THE PORCH, ANOTHER MAID SAW HIM, AND SAID UNTO THEM THAT WERE THERE, THIS FELLOW WAS ALSO WITH JESUS OF NAZARETH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:73

AND AFTER A WHILE CAME UNTO HIM THEY THAT STOOD BY, AND SAID TO PETER, SURELY THOU ALSO ART ONE OF THEM; FOR THY SPEECH BETRAYETH THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Matthew 26:75

AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD OF JESUS, WHICH SAID UNTO HIM, BEFORE THE COCK CROW, THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE. AND HE WENT OUT AND WEPT BITTERLY. Peter had found a place in the entrance-hall of the palace, not far from the door of the room where the council was in session, and also near the circle of... [ Continue Reading ]

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