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thinke you, in that he is not come to the festival day? And the cheefe Priests and Pharisees had given commandement, that if any man should know where he was, he should tel, that they might apprehend him.

 

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ANNOTATIONS.

Chap. XI.

 

The priviledge of the office and order, though in a wicked person.51. Being the high Priest.) Marvel not that Christ preserveth his truth in the Church as wel by the unworthy as the worthy Prelates thereof: the guifts of the Holy Ghost following their Order and office, as we see here in Caiphas, and not their merites or person. And if this man being many wayes wicked, and in part an usurper, and the Law and Priesthood being to decline and to give place to Christs new ordinance, had yet some assistance of God for utterance of truth which himself meant not, nor knew not: how much more may we be assured, that Christ wil not leave Peters Seat, whose faith he promised should never faile, though the persons which occupie the same, were as il as the blasphemous and malicious mouthes of Heretikes doe affirme.

 

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Chap. XII.

 

The 4. part.
The 4. Pasche, and holy weeke of his Passion in Hierusalem.

The Rulers dealing as if he hid himself, 1. he commeth to Bethania, 3. whereby occasion of Judas the theefe murmuring at Marie Magdalens costly devotion, he foretelleth his death. 12. From thence, though they did now intend to kil Lazarus also, he rideth openly into Hierusalem, the people (because he had raised Lazarus) confessing with their acclamations that he is Christ. 20. Where certaine Gentils desiring to see him, 22. he foretelleth the conversion of the whole world from the Divel to him, to be now instant, as the effect of his death upon the Crosse. 28. The Father also answering from Heaven to his prayer made to that purpose, 37. yet after al this, the Jewes continue incredulous as Esay prophecied of them: 42. though many beleeved, but were ashamed to confesse him. 44. Whereupon he sheweth that it is glorious before God, and salvation to themselves to beleeve in him, and confesse him: and damnable, to despise him.

 

The Ghospel upon Munday in Holy weeke.Mt. 26, 6. Mar. 14, 3.
Palme sunday eve.{{di|Jesus therfore sixe dayes before the Pasche came to Bethania, where Lazarus was, that had been dead, whom Jesus raised. ²And they made him a supper there: and Martha ministred, but Lazarus was one of them that sate at the table with him. ^{3 [1]} Marie therfore tooke a pownd of ointement of right spikenard, precious, and anointed the feete of Jesus, and wiped his feete with her haire: and the house was filled of the odour of the ointement. ⁴One therfore of his Disciples, Judas Iscariote, he that was to betray him, said: ⁵ ″ Why was not this ointment sold for three-hundred pence, and given to the poore? ⁶And he said this, not because he cared for the poore: but because he was ″ a theefe, and having the purse, caried the things that were put in. ⁷Jesus therfore said: Let her alone that she

1. Of this womans extraordinary offices of devotion, and how acceptable they were to Christ, see the Annot. Mt. 26.