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The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ from his incarnation to his death and burial published by John Eliot ...
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The time of this act was about the beginning of the sixth hour, the exact time of the preparation of the Passover Lamb, that is near noon? Then began the preparation to kill the paschal lamb. And little did Pilate think, or the Jews regard, that this person was the pure, innocent, spotless Lamb of God, which they were preparing to kill and Sacrifice.
3. The time of this act was about the beginning of the sixth hour, the exact time of the preparation of the Passover Lamb, that is near noon? Then began the preparation to kill the pascal lamb. And little did Pilate think, or the Iews regard, that this person was the pure, innocent, spotless Lamb of God, which they were preparing to kill and Sacrifice.
Quest. How can this be the day and time of the Passover, seeing Jesus Christ and his Disciples kept the Passover yesterday, the evening before he suffered?
Quest. How can this be the day and time of the Passover, seeing Iesus Christ and his Disciples kept the Passover yesterday, the evening before he suffered?
Answ. Reverend Calvin helps me with an answer. The Elders had made a Tradition, that when the fourteenth day of the Month falleth to be the fifth day of the week, that it might be lawful for any that would, to defer the Passover one day, that so the Sabbath day might be the day after the Passover, that so that Sabbath should be an high day, as the Sabbath after the suffering of Jesus Christ was accounted to be, Joh. 19.31. because it was a double holy convocation, much may be said about this, but I will pass on. Now Jesus would not keep the day allowed by Tradition, but took the day that was by institution, he kept the fourteenth day. And it was a divine providence so to order it, & this gave Judas the opportunity to betray Jesus Christ, to the Jews the day before their Passover, who followed the Tradition of the Fathers, and this gave the occasion that Jesus was crucified just at the time of their Passover, for on the sixth day of the week about the sixth hour, which was about noon, they began to kill Jesus, for at or about that time he was condemned by Pilate.