...pattern of that piety which he taught, he ' shewed his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders, and chief priests,...and be killed, and be raised again the third day.' + With this knowledge of his approaching doom, our Saviour, at the appointed time, fully resigned to...

...applied to Pilate for a guard. — " He shewed to his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders, and chief priests,...and be killed, and be raised again the third day." (Matt. xvi. 21.) These men knew full well that the first part of this prediction had been accurately...

...left him. Peter, notwithstanding his glorious confession, took fire at the mention of it. Ver. 22. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying,...far from thee, Lord ; this shall not be unto thee. — My dear friends, observe that Peter said this from the darkness of a worldly spirit, and what it...

...Christ's advent, but not the mystery of the cross,) in great and mistaken civility, took Jesus aside, " and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord ; this shall not be unto thee." But Jesus, full of zeal against so soft and human admonition, that savoured nothing of God, or of abstracted...

...Christ's advent, but not the mystery of the cross,) in great and mistaken civility, took Jesus aside, " and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord ; this shall not be unto thee." But Jesus, full of zeal against so soft and human admonition, that savoured nothing of God, or of abstracted...

...self-indulgence. When he explained to the Apostles the sufferings which he should undergo, and Peter began to rebuke him, saying, "Be it far from thee, Lord; this shall not be unto thee;" he reproved Peter, saying, "Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me, for thou savourest...

...mystery of the cross,) in great and mistaken civility, took Jesus aside, " and began, to rebuke hinj, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord ; this shall not be unto thee." But Jesus, full of zeal against so soft and human admonition, that savoured nothing of God, or of abstracted...

...his disciples, how that he must go tmlo Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the ciders, and chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Matt. xvi. 21. " From that time forth." — The fact last mentioned, was, that conversation of our...

...Christ. From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests...rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord : this shall 21 not be unto thee. But he turned, and said untcr Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art...

...added, from " that time forth, he began to shew unto his disci" ples, how he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer " many things of the elders and chief priests...and be killed, and be raised again the " third day." The reasons of this prohibition respecting their premature publication of his Messiahship, it is not...