12Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him,
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Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)The hour was now come that the captain of our salvation , who was to be made perfect by sufferings , should engage the enemy. We have here his entrance upon the encounter. The day of recompence is in his heart, and the year of his redeemed is come, and his own arm works the salvation , for he has no second. Let us turn aside now, and see this great sight . I. Our Lord Jesus, like a bold champion,…
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