34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye "blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

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35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:10

10 took me in to you. Tomson. C. 26.

word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.

m Ps. cxv. 15: Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.

n ROM. viii. 17: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. I PET. i. 4, 9: To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. do. iii. 9: Not ren dering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing, knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. REV. xxi. 7: He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

MAT. XX. 23: To sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. The same words, MARK, X. 40. 1COR. ii. 9: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. HEB. xi. 16: But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: For he hath prepared for them a city.

PISA, lviii. 7: Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him. EZEK. xviii. 7: Hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment. JAMES, i. 27: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

41 PET. iv. 9: Use hospitality one to another without grudging, HEB. xiii. 2: Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 JOHN, 5: Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers.

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36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in 'prison, and ye came

unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, "Depart from me, ye cursed, 'into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

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JAMES, ii. 15, 16: If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food; and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled: notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

$ 2 TIM. i. 16: The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain. HEB. xiii. 3: Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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PRO. xiv. 31: He that oppresseth the poor, reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor. Ps. vi. 8: Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. MAT. vii. 23: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. LUKE, Xiii. 27 : But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are ; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

MAT. xiii. 40, 42: As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. And shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 2 THES. i. 9: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.

w2 PET. ii. 4: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of

42 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink : 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

44 Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

45 Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, 'Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

46 And these shall 'go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

CHAP. XXVI.

1 The rulers conspire against Christ: 6 The woman anointeth his feet : 14 Judas selleth him: 17 Christ eateth the Passover : 26 instituteth his holy supper: 36 prayeth in the garden: 47 and being betrayed with a kiss, 57 is carried to Caiaphas, 69 and denied of Peter.

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

2 Ye know that 'after two days is the feast of the Passover, and the Son of man is betrayed1 to be crucified.

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darkness, to be reserved unto judgment. JUDE, 6: And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.

× Pro. xiv. 31: The words under ver. 40. do. xvii. 5: Whoso mocketh the poor, reproacheth his Maker. ZEC. ii. 8: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, After the glory hath he sent me to the nations which spoiled you, for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye. AcTs, ix. 5: And he [Paul] said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. y See on JOHN, v. 28, 29.

CHAP. XXVI.

a See on MARK, xiv. 1.

3 Then assembled together the Chief Priests, and the Scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

6 ¶ Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

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8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

b Ps. ii. 2: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed. JOHN, Xi. 47: Then gathered the Chief Priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. Acтs, iv. 25, 26; Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

e MAT. xxi. 17: He left them, and went out of the city into Bethany, and lodged there. MARK, xiv. 3: And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon, the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman, having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. JOHN, xi. 1, 2: Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. do. xii. 3: Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

d JOHN, xii. 4, 5: Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

For this ointment might have been sold for

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and given to the When Jesus understood it, he said unto Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath ght a good work upon me.

For ye have the poor always with you; e ye have 'not always.

For in that she hath poured this ointment body, she did it for

my burial.3

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this el shall be preached in the whole world, shall also this, that this woman hath done, d for a memorial of her.

Then one of the twelve, called "Judas ot, went unto the Chief Priests,

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T. xv. 11: The poor shall never cease out of the land: e I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand o thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy -ee JOHN, xii. 8.

MAT. xviii. 20. do. xxviii. 20. JOHN, xiii. 33: Little yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; say to you. do. xiv. 19: Yet a little while, and the eth me no more. do. xvi. 5, 28: But now I go my way hat sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither ou? I leave the world, and go to the Father. do. xvii. now I am no more in the world, but these are in the nd I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine e those whom thou hast given me, that they may be e are. Acтs, iii. 21: Whom the heaven must receive times of restitution of all things.

K, xiv. 10: Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went Chief Priests to betray him unto them. LUKE, xxii. 3: ered Satan into Judas, surnamed Iscariot, being of er of the twelve.

x. 4: Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. JOHN, : And supper being ended, the devil having now put heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, having received the sop went immediately out: and ht.