50And they all forsook him, and fled.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.
Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 43-52)We have here the seizing of our Lord Jesus by the officers of the chief priests. This was what his enemies had long aimed at, they had often sent to take him ; but he had escaped out of their hands, because his hour was not come , nor could they now have taken him, had he not freely surrendered himself. He began first to suffer in his soul , but afterward suffered in his body, that he might satisf…
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