John 18:24

“And Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.”” — editor's note: John xviii. 19–24.

“Then not having even so made any farther discovery, they send Him bound to Caiaphas.” — editor's note: Ver. 24. “Annas sent (ἀ πέστειλεν) Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.” St. C. makes this the order of the narrative, but most commentators refer the words…

“By a threefold confession Peter blotted out his threefold denial.” — editor's note: Joh. xviii. 15–27; xxi. 15–17.

When Jesus had appealed to the testimony of the people by, an officer, wishing to clear himself, and shew that he was not one of those who admired our Lord, struck Him: And when He had thus spoken, one of the…

This shews that Annas was the high priest, for this was before He was sent to Caiaphas. And Luke in the beginning of his Gospel says, that Annas and Caiaphas were both high priests.

Here is fulfilled the prophecy, I gave my cheek to the smiters. Jesus, though struck unjustly, replied gently: Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why smitest thou Me?

As if to say, If thou hast any fault to find with what I have said, shew it; if thou hast not, why ragest thou? Or thus: If I taught any thing unadvisedly, when I taught in the synagogues, give proof of it to the…

What can be truer, gentler, kinder, than this answer? He Who received the blow on the face neither wished for him who struck it that fire from heaven should consume him, or the earth open its mouth and swallow him;…

What should they do then but either disprove, or admit, what He said? Yet this they do not do: it is not a trial they are carrying on, but a faction, a tyranny. Not knowing what to do further, they send Him to…

Thinking that as he was more cunning, he might find out something against Him worthy of death.

He was the one to whom they were taking Him from the first, as Matthew says; he being the high priest of this year. We must understand that the pontificate was taken between them year by year alternately, and that it…

Sent Him bound, not that He was bound now for the first time, for they bound Him when they took Him. They sent Him bound as they had brought Him. Or perhaps He may have been loosed from His bonds for that hour, in…