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The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.-Psalm cxviii. 22.

All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him.—Psalm xxii. 7,8.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.-Psalm xxii. 6.

He is despised and rejected of

men.

He was oppressed and afflicted. -Isaiah liii. 3, 7.

trarch of Ga- said unto him, Answerest thou

nothing? What is it which these witness against thee?

But Jesus held his peace.-Matt. xxvi. 62, 63.

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment. -John xviii. 28.

And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad; for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.

Then he questioned him in many words, but he answered him nothing.-Luke xxiii. 8, 9.

And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written,

The stone which the builders re

jected, the same is become the head of the corner?

Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.-Luke xx. 17, 18.

Christ himself the chief corner stone.-Eph. ii. 20.

And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last

came two false witnesses,

And said, This fellow said, I

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Hide me under the shadow of

thy wings,

From the wicked that oppress me: from my deadly enemies who compass me about.-Psalm xvii. 8, 9.

False witnesses did rise up: they laid to my charge things that I knew not.

But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. Psalm xxxv. 11, 15, 16.

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;

For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.

For my love they are my adversaries.-Psalm cix. 1-4.

am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days. -Matt. xxvi. 57, 59-61.

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.

When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, Iand washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. See ye to it.

Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be upon us and on our children.-Matt. xxvii. 20, 22, 24, 25.

And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and mocked him, and arrayed him in a gorgeous robe, and sent him again to Pilate.-Luke xxiii. 11.

When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.-John xix. 6.

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.–John xix. 1.

Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, who is he that smote thee? -Matt. xxvi. 67, 68.

And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples

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David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for unclean

ness.

And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts.-Zech. xiii. 1, 6, 7. For dogs have compassed me : the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.-Psalm xxii. 16, 17.

And they shall look upon me whom they have pierced.-Zech. xii. 10.

Neither shall ye break a bone thereof.-Exodus xii 46.

And he was numbered with the transgressors.-Isaiah liii. 12.

world, by the shedding of whose precious blood we are washed from all our sins, was to be crucified, his hands and feet being pierced through with nails on the cross, and his side with a

spear.

Messiah was

apart in the way, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,

And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.-Matt. xx. 17-19.

And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,

Ye know that after two days is the feast of the Passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.-Matt xxvi. 1, 2.

And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him.-Luke xxiii. 33.

And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a scull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha:

Where they crucified him.John xix. 17, 18.

But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs :

But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came thereout blood and water.-John xix. 33, 34.

For I say unto you that this to be num- that is written must yet be accombered with plished in me, And he was reckmalefactors. oned among the transgressors.Luke xxii. 37.

Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.Matt. xxvii. 38.

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They gave him vinegar drink mingled with gall.-Matt. xxvii. 34.

And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

And saying, He trusted in God: let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.-Matt. xxvii. 39, 43.

Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, Woven from the top throughout.

They said therefore among themselves, Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose it shall be.-John xix. 23, 24.

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, eloi, lama Sabacthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ?-Mark xv. 34.

And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.-Luke xxiii. 1.

And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.- -Matt. xxvii. 2.

And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Prætorium ; and they call together the whole band.-Mark xv. 16.

Then the soldiers when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments.-John xix. 23.

And Jesus said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; land the Son of man shall be be

Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer Holy thine Holy One to see corrup-should

tion.-Psalm xvi. 10.

the

Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.-Matt. xxvi. 31, 56.

Behold, the hour cometh, yea is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone.-John xvi. 32.

Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the be hands of men :

One

And they shall kill him, and

again.-Matt. xvii. 22, 23.

see

After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.-Hosea vi. 1, 2.

ing tion.

And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.—Jonah i. 17.

Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.-Psalm 1xxi. 20.

God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me.-Psalm xlix. 15.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

But he spake of the temple of his body.—John ii. 19, 20.

For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.-Matt. xii. 40.

In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Mag