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to love Him and serve Him! While Jesus agonized what did the chosen three do? How often did they, do so? Was there any connection, do you think, between Peter’s sleeping and his defying Jesus? Have you ever failed to resist temptation because you had first failed' to pray? III. Jesus B etrayed by Judas, w . 10, 11, 43 -5 2 . What bargain did Judas make with the chief priests? Had he ever been a true disciple of Jesus? John 17:12. What warn ing is there in this for us? What precau tion did Judas take to secure the arrest of Jesus? Did he understand the Spirit of the Master, or His purpose in coming to earth? What marked the baseness of his treachery? vv. 44, 45. Who interfered to save Jesus? See John 18:10; Luke 22:50, 51. How did Jesus rebuke Judas and the soldiers? What did His disciples do? Have you ever deserted Jesus in the presence of His enemies? IV . Jesus E xam ined B efore th e H igh P riest, vv. 53-65. There were six examinations of Jesus, three before ecclesiastical authorities, and three before civil authorities. The first was before Annas, father-in-law of Caiajphas; the second before Caiaphas; the third before the Sanhedrin; the fourth before Pilate; the fifth before Herod; the sixth before Pilate. Where was Jesus examined by the High Priest? Who followed “afar off” ? Where did Peter remain during the examination? What charges were brought against Jesus? By whom were they brought? Why had they to produce false witnesses? How did Jesus treat their testimony? What did the High Priest himself demand of Jesus? v. 61. What did Jesus answer? What did He add to His answer? What did they decide about Him? If Jesus is not the Son of God, were the Jews and their rulers right or wrong in putting Him to death according to their law? If He is the Son of God, of what were they guilty? Is He the Son of God ? Why do you believe so ? Of what are men guilty today who deny His deity, and say that He was only a
He want to observe the passover feast? What was the relation of the passover to the feast of unleavened bread? See Lev. 23:5-8. In what place in Jerusalem did Jesus and His disciples keep the passover? How was this place secured ? What sad revelation did J esus make to the disciples at the table? How did it affect them? What good feature of the disciples did their questions reveal? What did our Lord say of the guilt of the betrayer? Which of the disciples was it? What did He use as the emblems for the new feast? Nothing that was specially provided, but just the ordinary bread and wine of the passover feast. What did He do before passing the bread and wine around? What did He say they were? Who should partake of the Lord’s Supper? Who should not partake of it? See 1 Corinthians 11:27-34. Are you one of His loving, loyal disciples? II. Jesus P ra y in g in G ethsem ane, vv. 27- 4 2 . Of what did Jesus warn His disciples after leaving the supper room? What did Peter assert? What did Jesus warn him about? In what place did.Jesus go to pray?. Where was Gethsemane? What division of His disciples did He make?- Who did He take with Him? Recall two other occasions when He separated these three from the others. What did He tell them about Himself? Then leaving them, what did He do? Why did He want them near Him at that time ? What did He pray about? What did He mean by “the hour” and “this cup ?” By some it is believed that Jesus shrunk from the death on the cross. By others, that He prayed for deliverance from a Satanic attempt to crush His life out in the garden before going to the cross, thus defeating the very purpose for which He had come into the world. Stijl others believe that it was from the separation from his Father that came when He hung on 'the cross as our substitute and bore our sins, being made sin for us, and that really broke His heart. See Matt. 27:46. I think the latter is true. How seldom we meditate on what He suf fered in that awful hour ! How we ought
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