Matthew 27

1. In his eyes, they beheld two sad objects, he saw his enemies insulting, and his mother weeping. 2. In his ears, his ears were filled with the revilings of the people, (Matthew 27:42) He saved others, himself he cannot save. 3. In his smell, when their drivel fell upon his fac…

Noah's olive tree springing after the flood, was a lively emblem of the resurrection. After the passion of our Lord, many of the saints which slept in the grave, arose (Matthew 27:52). God can more easily raise the body out of the grave, than we can wake a man out of sleep.

Did not Pilate sin against conviction, and with a high hand, in condemning Christ? He knew that out of envy the Jews had delivered him (Matthew 27:18). He confessed he found no fault with him (Luke 23:14).

And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship, consisteth in its relation to God by Jesus Christ, as the merciful high-Priest over his house, with the glorious administration of the spirit therein. The order also of it lies in the due and regular observation of all that Christ…

What else was the shame and pain of that death? He was crowned with thorns, and otherwise derided by the people and priests, his hands and feet were nailed to the Cross, and his side was pierced with a Spear to the effusion of water and blood (Matthew 27:29, 30, 31; John 19:34).…

For how then should they have all been condemned for believing a lie (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12), which should not have been unless it were their own sin — which is as true of all other temptations as that. Though Satan put the thought into Judas' heart (John 13:2), yet his own co…

Genesis chapter 21, verse 9, Ishmael mocked Isaac; and Isaiah brings in Christ complaining thus: Isaiah chapter 8, verse 18, Behold, I and my children whom the Lord has given me, are as signs and wonders in Israel. And Jeremiah says, I am in derision daily: every one mocks me, J…

The making of this second vail is declared (Exodus 26:31, 32, 33), and it is called the vail or covering. The Apostle renders it by [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]; as also it is (Matthew 27:51), where it is spoken of in the Temple: and so it is rendered by the LXX (Exodus 26:31). A…

For it was a type both of the entrance of Christ into Heaven, and of our entrance by him to the Throne of Grace (ver. 24, chap. 10:19, 20). This was that vail which in the Temple was rent from the top to the bottom upon the death of our Savior (Matthew 27:51). For hereby the way…

And this was the reproach that was cast upon him on the cross, as the next words manifest, They gave me gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink (verse 21). And this reproach was that which we instance in, They shook the head at him, saying, He trusted on…

(Psalm 34:8) O taste and see that the Lord is good; which Peter respects (1 Peter 2:3): If so be that you have tasted that the Lord is gracious, or found it so by experience. It is therefore properly to make an experiment or trial of any thing, whether it be received or refused;…

For by the entrance of the High Priest into the most Holy Place with blood, the Holy Ghost did signify that the way into it, namely, for believers to enter by, was only the one true sacrifice which he was to offer, and to be. And accordingly to give an indication of the accompli…

In the first we are to consider these points: 1. the time in which Christ was indicted. 2. the end of his indictment. 3. the whole tenor and proceeding thereof. For the first: Christ was indicted early in the morning at the break of the day: for he was apprehended in the night,…

But notwithstanding that in these latter times all good order had much degenerated and grown to confusion, yet it seems to me, that even in the days of our Savior Christ, the civil and Ecclesiastical courts remained distinct. Let me say my opinion with all men's leave, and under…

We read (2 Chronicles 19:8) that with the Priests were joined some of the chief of the fathers of Israel, to judge ecclesiastical causes and controversies. And however many things among the Jews in the latter times, after the captivity, did wear to confusion and misorder, yet we…

This is warranted by the example of our Savior (Matthew 26:39): O my Father if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. And (Matthew 27:46): My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? The meaning of Christ is not to bind us to these words, but to teach us that in our prayers we…

And love, and reverence more the teaching Elders, than governing only (1 Timothy 5:17), etc. For the better doing of this, is required perfection, sobriety (Matthew 12:37; Matthew 27:5). Perfection is, when the affections in doing, are both strong enough, and also sincere or upr…

For it cannot be reasonably thought but his being buried with the wicked is a piece of his humiliation; to make it only an evidence of his humiliation, seems not to stand with the next part of the words, because he had done no violence, etc., which is a causal reason of that whi…

The inward pressure of His soul presses great drops of blood from His body. And if we will yet look a little forward, to Matthew 27:46, we will find Him brought to that extremity on the cross, that He cries, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Which though it says that t…

(2.) We do not put forth any stirring of life or desire toward that which is naturally above us: A child in the belly has no acts toward a crown or a kingdom in this life, because desires are bottomed and founded on nature: as an ape, or a horse, has no desire to be a man. Pilat…

And it seems grievous to hear others suspicious concerning ourselves, when it is in our power easily to refute them, such provocations can hardly be borne by the most modest spirits. This temptation was again put upon Christ on the cross (Matthew 27:40). If you be the son of God…

If we say it entered into glory — what inconvenience was there; if God would indulge him this peculiar prerogative to be raised from the dead, and enjoy blessedness both in soul and body before the last day. He granted it to Enoch and Elias, and those who came out of their grave…

Or else, if we have them, we were better be without them; we have them with a curse, with the loss of better things (Jeremiah 17:13): "Oh Lord! all that forsake you shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth." They are condemned to this felicity…

Thus Pharao fa[〈…〉] repentance, Exod 9:27. and Ahab, that sold himselfe to worke wickednes, 1. king. 21. 27. and Iudas in the midst of his despaire is said to repent. Matt 27:1. Daily experience shewes the like in such persons, who in their extremitie, with teares use to bewaile…

And this is the cause why Matthew attributes that to the sign, which agrees to the thing signified. In the second member the Prophet shows the greatness of this people's ingratitude and perversity, in that they did not see the cause why Christ was thus far humbled and afflicted,…

For although he was come, yet he was not then known, neither were the ceremonies of the law abolished. But when the veil of the Temple was rent in two (Matthew 27:51), and remission of sins preached in his name (Luke 24:46-47; Acts 13:38), then these high praises touching the Te…

“That he suffered, his Divinity not demonstrating power.” I understand to refer, not only to bodily death, but to that amazing distress and agony of soul, which drew from him the complaint, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46.) In a word, if we do not cho…

Now God had entered into a special covenant with the family of Abraham, and therefore Christ acted properly in confining the grace of God, at the outset, to the chosen people, till the time for publishing it were fully come. But after his resurrection, he spread over all nations…

But they are mistaken, I think, who suppose that in this passage the Sabbath is entirely abolished; for Christ simply informs us what is the proper use of it. Though he asserted, a little before, that he is Lord of the Sabbath, yet the full time for its abolition ‐ “La vraye sai…

The condition of the Church, at the present day, is justly pronounced to be preferable to that of the holy fathers, who lived under the Law; because to them was exhibited, under shadows and figures only, what is now openly manifested in the shining face of Christ. The veil of th…

Matthew 27:1-10 1. But when it was morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.

Matthew 27:11-14 11. Now Jesus stood before the governor.

Matthew 27:15-23 15. Now the governor was wont at the festival to release to the multitude one prisoner, whomsoever they wished.

Matthew 27:24-32 24. But Pilate, perceiving that he gained nothing by it, but that the tumult became the greater, took water, and washed his hands before the people, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man: see you to it.

38. And there was also an inscription written over him, in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew characters, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Matthew 27:33. And they came to the place. Jesus was brought to the place where it was customary to execute criminals, that his death might be more ignom…

Matthew 27:39-44 39. And they that passed by reviled him, shaking their heads,

Matthew 27:45-56 45. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land "Sur tout le pays;" — "over the whole country" till the ninth hour.

Matthew 27:57-61 57. And when the evening was come, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself was a disciple of Jesus.

66. And they went and made the sepulcher secure, sealing the stone, and posting guards. Matthew 27:62. And the next day. In this narrative Matthew did not so much intend to show with what determined rage the scribes and priests pursued Christ, as to exhibit to us, as in a mirror…

But yet Christ entirely trusted in God. His enemies say that of him (Matthew 27:43): He trusted in God that he would deliver him. And the apostle testifies (1 Peter 2:23): That he committed himself to God.

3. They may write letters of commendation on behalf of a godly man. And so you read of Pilate's wife, which the Scripture gives as no evidence of her conversion (Matthew 27:19): she wrote a letter to her husband in the morning before he was to arraign Christ, and told him, have…

See Isaiah 50:7, 8. And he always made an open profession of this trust, insomuch as that his enemies reproached him with it in his greatest distress (Matthew 27:39). But this was his course, this was his refuge, wherein at length he had blessed and glorious success.

I conceive it must be granted, that Job discovered much frailty and infirmity, some passion and distemper in this complaint and curse; yet notwithstanding we must assert him for a patient man, indeed for a mirror of patience; and there are five things considerable for the cleari…

What was wanting that made all that they did abominable? Consider one instance for all: It is said of Judas that he repented, Matthew 27:3. , he repented himself; but wherein did this repentance consist? he was convinced of his sin in general; , says he, I have sinned, verse 4:2…

6. It has a bottom and that of gold: a bottom is to show its stability and firmness, to sustain and keep up these who ride in it, and gold shows its solidity and preciousness, it's a rich bottom, therefore the new Jerusalem is said to have her streets of pure gold (Revelation 21…

When we have prayed against sin, do we watch against temptation? The Jews having sealed the stone of Christ's Sepulchre, set a watch (Matthew 27:66). After we have been at the Word, or Sacrament (that sealing Ordinance) do we set a watch?

6. When strong convictions come upon the spirit we are to yield our hearty assent to him. Matthew 27:54, the Centurion and the watchers of Christ seeing the earthquake and other wonders from heaven, say, [in non-Latin alphabet] Luke 23:47, [in non-Latin alphabet] true, certainly…

They reproached him in all his offices: in his office of teaching, when they challenged him to tell who struck him: in his office of saving, when they challenged him to save himself as he had saved others: in his office of ruling, when they challenged him to prove himself the ki…

Indeed, Lord, and if ever my Conscience, which by rebellion is now grown silent, should be in judgment awakened in this life, Oh what an Hell should I have within me! how would it thunder and roar upon me, and surround me with terrors! Your word assures me, that no length of tim…

The word which is Metaphoricall, as to the businesse we have in hand, is used in the Scripture, both in its primitive, native sence, in reference to things Naturall, as also in the tralatitious use of it about things Politick and Spirituall or Morall. In its first sence we have…