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

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 pl••s, 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,

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 doe) apprehended him and condemned him, they were resolved to put him to death. But they foresaw many difficultyes 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 pl••s, 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,

1. We must be speedy in our motions and progress, before the people know that we have apprehended him. For it was about midnight that he was apprehended, ⟨p. 83⟩and brought to Annas and Caiaphas. It was about cocks crowing when he was condemned; he must be put to death and buried before the Sabbath; for if we slack the time, the people will surely rescue him.

1. We must be speedy in our motions and progress, before the people know that we have apprehended him. For it was about midnight that he was apprehended,