The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…

Luk. 22.66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71. And as soon as it was day, the Elders of the people and the chief Priests and the Scribes came together, and led him into their Council saying, Art thou the Christ? tell us, and he said unto them, if I tell you, you will not believe, and if I also ask you, you will not answer me, nor let me go. Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. Then said they all, art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, ye say that I am. And they said, what need we any further witness? for we our selves have heard of his own mouth.

LVk. 22.66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71. And assoon as it was day, the Elders of the people and the chief Priests and the Scribes came together, and led him into their Councell saying, Art thou the Christ? tell us, and he said unto them, if I tell you, you will not believe, and if I also ask you, you will not answer me, nor let me go. Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. Then said they all, art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, ye say that I am. And they said, what need we any further witness? for we our selves have heard of his own mouth.

It was about Cocks crowing when Jesus Christ was condemned, committed to safe custody under a strong guard. The Court adjourned till morning, all the abuses that these carnal keepers inflicted on Jesus, the remainder of the night, I refer unto the fifth act of the Council; which for time extended till morning, and for cruelty it extended to Hell.

Now in preparation for their proceeding in the morning, they held a close and private consultation how to manage this great business. For seeing they now had (according as they long desired and contrived to do) apprehended him and condemned him, they were resolved to put him to death. But they foresaw many difficulties in effecting it. The points considered, plotted and agreed in this private consultation, were sundry: and their agreement may be gathered out of the answer of Jesus Christ in the morning, who gave them to understand that he knew their pls, to convince their Consciences that he was Christ the Messiah, for the asserting whereof they had condemned him. The Points considered of were such as these,