pearance, when he descended there-
from, 487-imparts himself to those
who receive his apostles and servants
as children, 255-his love to his dis-
ciples, illustrated, 260-the extent to
which he enjoins forgiveness of injuries
to be carried, 265-is interrogated by
the Pharisees, on the question of divorce,
268-why he reproved the young man
for applying the title of "Good Mas-
ter," to him, 273-he did not disclaim
his own divinity by so doing, 274-the
peculiar manner in which our Lord
quoted the commandments, for the in-
formation of the young man, consider-
ed, 275-the result of this interview,
276-the poverty of Christ, noticed,
276, 277, 560—the reward he promised
to the apostles who had forsaken all
for him, 279-281-his parable of the
labourers in the vineyard, illustrated,
282-287-defended from the charge of
plagiarism, 287-unfolds the voluntary
and vicarious character of those suffer-
ings which he should experience at
Jerusalem, 288-he lays down the
grand doctrine of the atonement, the
foundation and top-stone of the Chris-
tian system, 202, 203—restores sight
to Bartimeus, 203, 204-be enters Je-
rusalem en an ass, and why, 204, 295
-his visit to the temple to purify it,
296, 299-curses the fg-tree, and why,
301, 302—is interrogated by a deputa-
tion from the Sanhedrim, respecting
his authority for teaching as a prophet,
303-declares himself the stone reject-
ed by the builders, which became the
head of the corner, 307—is the founda-
tion and cornerstone of the church,
and why so called, ib-his indical
power against those who reject him,
manifested by the top-stone of the cor-
ner falling upon them, 306-bis para-
ble of the marriage-feast, Lustrated,
309-313-the wisdom and prudence
of his answer to the Pharisees, on the
question of paying tribute, 314-316
-discloses the exclusive spiritual
character of the resurrection, 318-
refutes the Sadducees, and establishes
the doctrine of the mortality of the
soul, and the resurrection, 313, 313-

his description of the first and greatest
commandment, 321-convicts the Pha-
risees of ignorance of the true charac-
ter of the Messiah, 322, 323-the ques-
tion, how far the scribes are to be ob-
served and followed, decided by our
Lord, 324, 325-the notion of Vitringa,
that our Lord took the degree of Rabbi
in the Jewish schools, refuted, 326-
forbids his disciples to assume titles
complimentary to their own wisdom,
327-he dissipates the sophistical dis-
tinction which the Pharisees made re-
specting oaths, and states the law on
the subject, 86, 87, 330-condemns
their hypocrisy, in garnishing the
tombs of the prophets, 333-his apos-
trophe over the city of Jerusalem, con-
sidered, 337-predicts the destruction
of the temple, and takes his final de-
parture from it, 338-three different
views of the phrase, “coming of
Christ," used by our Lord, 340-cau-
tions his disciples against false mes-
siahs, who should appear prior to the
demolition of the city and temple, 340
-comforts his disciples in the prospect
of those troubles which he predicts,
341-gives a signal, at which his fol-
lowers should provide for their own
safety by flight from Jerusalem, 345—
predicts the destruction of Jerusalem,
349, 654-under the figure of the dark-
ening of the sun and moon, 349-bis
parable of the ten virgins, illustrated,
358-360-also of the talents, 361-307
-his representation of the proceedings
of the day of judgment, 368-372-bis
benevolence in identifying himself with
all the poor and troubled persons
throughout the world, 370-is anointed
by Mary, the sister of Lazarus, 375-
376-commends and defends her on-
duct, 375, 376—the motives by whic
Judas was influenced in betraying his
Master, 37-the question, winter
our Lord ate the passover befiet be
suffered, or instituted the enchanst &
a common supper, or anticipated the
usual time of the passover by a day,
considered, 378, 379-be prepares fr
this feast, 382, 381-points out the
traitor, 381-383-predicts his ova

death, 382-and describes the eternal
state of Judas, 383-he institutes the
eucharist, 384-applies to himself the
title of Shepherd, and the Fellow of the
Lord of Hosts, 392-foretels the fall
of Peter, 393, 394-his own agony,
considered, 394-398-his exemplary
submission to the divine will, 398-is
apprehended by officers from the chief
priests and Pharisees, escorted by Ju-
das, 400-heals the wound inflicted by
Peter on the servant of the high priest,
401-he spurns the degradation of the
manner of his apprehension, 402-and
reproves the treachery and cowardice
of those by whom he is taken, ib.—
supports the faith of the disciples, by
referring to those predictions which
are fulfilled in the manner of his appre-
hension, 402, 403—is taken to the
house of Annas, and then to that of
Caiaphas, to meet the Sanhedrim, 403
-the reason of his silence before the
Jewish council, 404, 405-nature of
the adjuration of the high priest, 405
-is pronounced, by the Sanhedrim, to
be guilty of death, 406—his look upon
Peter, who had denied him, 410-his
innocence triumphantly demonstrated,
by the sanguinary obduracy of the
priests, 412-and their refusal to place
the money, returned by the traitor,
into the treasury, 412-Christ shows
Pilate, in what sense he declares him-
self the King of the Jews, 417-his
reason for answering but one question,
when brought before Pilate, ib.-the
multiplicity of testimony in favour of
the innocency of our Lord, mentioned,
419-the declaration of Pilate to this
effect, and washing his hands, 420, 421
-is scourged by Pilate, and delivered to
be crucified, 421, 422-his silence and
unresisting submission, while enduring
the contumely and barbarous sport of
the soldiers, 423-bears his own cross,
but faints beneath the load, ib.-nature
of the drink presented to him upon the
cross, and why he refused to drink it,
424-is condemned for one crime, and
executed for another, 425, 426-his ex-
clamation of abandonment upon the
cross, a source of perplexity to those

who deny the doctrine of the atone-
ment, 427-his death is not to be attri-
buted to his own volition, but to the
extremity of his sufferings, 429-the
prodigies which attended his cruci-
fixion, considered, 427-431-is em-
balmed, and buried in the tomb of
Joseph, 433-circumstances connected
with his resurrection, stated, 436–438
-he appears to his disciples in Galilee,
and declares his universal dominion
and power, 439-his teaching, con-
trasted with that of the scribes, 447-
heals the man with an unclean spirit,
which bore witness to his holiness, and
which testimony our Saviour refused
to receive, 447, 448—the great impres-
sion made by our Lord's discourses
upon the minds of the people generally,
450, 451-nature of that anger mani-
fested by our Lord at the hypocrisy
and obduracy of the scribes, 456-
meaning of the phrase, "beside him-
self," as applied to our Lord, 458, 459
-encourages the apostles, by the para-
ble of the sower, 463-he shows the
part which man is to take in the estab-
lishment of his kingdom, and the ne-
cessity of the Spirit's influence, ib.-
heals a man possessed with a legion of
devils, 466--why he refused his re-
quest, and sent him to his own house,
ib.-the reason why Christ, in several
miracles, made use of external applica-
tions, 481-dispossesses the evil spirit
from a young man, whom the disciples
could not relieve, 487, 488-the death
of Christ, fully proved, 523-in what
the greatness of our Lord consisted, as
foretold by the angel, 543-known,
venerated, and worshipped, as the Son
of God, in his higher and divine na-
ture, by the church in all ages, ib.-in
what respect judgment did not pass
upon him to condemnation, and that
he needed not, in his human nature,
justification of life, 547-the phrase,

Day-spring from on high," as ap-
plied to Christ, explained, 553-his
first visit to the temple, noticed, 560-
in what respect he is set for the fall
and rising of many in Israel, 563-
there is no evidence that the personal

speak to them in parables, and to re-
serve the explanation for his disciples
in private, 193-the privileges with
which the Jews were favoured, with-
drawn, ib.-the fact that, from the
birth of our Lord, the Jews became
increasingly uneasy under the Roman
yoke, noticed, 231-a reason why their
view of the Messiah's character dif-
fered so widely from that of their fa-
thers, ib.-the licentious interpretation
they put upon, and practised respect-
ing, the law of divorce, 268-the na-
ture of that "hardness of the heart
which led Moses to enjoin the writing
of divorcement, 269, 270-they had no
ground of complaint on account of the
Gentiles being admitted into gospel
covenant, 285, 286-custom of, in
raising men for warlike expeditions,
noticed, 286-were blinded by earthly-
mindedness and ambition to the mean-
ing of their own scriptures, 296-to
elude the force of prophecy, were com-
pelled to admit two Messiahs, an hum-
bled as well as an exalted one, ib.-
nature of the joy manifested by the
Jews when Christ triumphantly enter.
ed their city, 298-the doom of the
Jewish nation, pointed out by the fate
of the barren fig-tree, 302-their rejec-
tion, on account of their rejection of
Christ, foretold, 307-the injury they
sustained on account of Christ being
to them a stumbling-block, 308-the
destruction they experienced on ac-
count of Christ, as the top-stone of
the building, falling upon them, ib.—
how far the parable of the feast which
the king made in honour of his son,
applies to the Jews, 310-the tribute
paid by them to the Romans, described,
313, 314—an ancient custom relating
to marrying the widow of a brother,
noticed, 316-their conflicting opini-
ons respecting the greatest command-
ment, 320-custom of the Jews to
number the precepts of the law, men-
tioned, 321-their indefatigable zeal in
making proselytes, noticed, 329-their
hopeless abandonment declared by our
Lord, 334-the awful character of that
Visitation which should come upon

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them, 335 though they were not
guilty of all the blood shed from Abel
to Zecharias, nevertheless, a similar
quota of vengeance due thereto should
justly come upon them, and why, 336,
337 the future conversion of the
Jewish nation, predicted, 338-why
they were so easily led to join the ranks
of false messiahs, 340, 341, 347-a
singular notion which they entertained
respecting their Messiah, mentioned,
348-a parallel struck between the
state of the Jews before the siege of
the city, and the antediluvians, 353-
the plan of the Jews privately to assas-
sinate Christ, overruled, and the pub-
licity of his death and its conse-
quences, noticed, 373-are viewed by
our Lord as sinners in common with
the Gentiles, and why, 399, 400-
every Jew obliged to rend his clothes
on hearing blasphemy, 405, 406-their
guilt in the condemnation of Christ,
considered, 407-the populace did not
cry, "Not this man, but Barabbas,"
until influenced by the Sanhedrim, 418
-their eagerness to take the guilt of
shedding the innocent blood of the
Saviour upon themselves and their
children, 421-and the awful retribu-
tion they experienced, ib.-the derision
Christ endured upon the cross, con-
sidered, 426-the abolition of the Jew-
ish religion and state, symbolically de-
clared by the rending of the veil and
the earthquake, 430-effects produced
upon the Jews by the prodigies which
attended the crucifixion, 432- their
hypocritical bigotry in the desecration
of the temple, noticed, 502-in what
respect Christ was set for the falling
and rising of many in Israel, 563-the
obligation of the Jews to attend the
three great feasts, noticed, 566—when
Jewish children came under the yoke
of the law, ib.-mode of travelling
among the Jews to the public feasts,
566, 567-their conduct in the syna-
gogue at Nazareth, considered as an
instance of judicial abandonment, 579
-their objection to acknowledge Christ
as the Messiah, stated, 580-their
opinion, that angels conveyed the souls.

of the just at death to paradise, and
those of the wicked to torment, 644-
paid great attention to the indications
of the weather, and neglected the evi-
dences of Christ's mission, 652, 653—
exhorted to be reconciled to their of-
fended God and Saviour, 653-their
fate foretold to be similar to that of
the Galileans massacred by Pilate, and
to those who perished by the falling of
the tower of Siloam, 654-the Jews,
while condemning the Gentiles, passed
sentence on themselves, 680-as a
people, were but little inferior to the
Gentiles in immorality, 680, 681-this
they did not attempt to deny, 681-the
false ground of impunity taken by the
Jews, exposed, ib.-in what respects
the riches of the goodness of God were
manifested toward this people, 682—
and how despised, 682, 683-will be
judged according to their works, and
not according to their national or
church privileges, 683-why the Jew
will be first condemned, and most
severely punished, 685-corporal cir-
cumcision unprofitable to the Jew, if
he did not experience spiritual circum-
cision, 692-what constitutes a true
son of Abraham, ib.—the religious pri-
vileges of the Jews did not ensure
their salvation, 693-character of their
privileges, stated, ib.-they admitted
the inspiration of the scriptures, ib.-
character of Judaism, a conservative
dispensation, 693, 694-why the sacred
oracles were committed to the Jews,
ib. their zeal in making proselytes
from heathenism did not at all extenu-
ate their guilt, 695, 696-Jew and
Gentile alike guilty of sin, and in a
state of condemnation, 690, 691, 696
Joanna, the wife of Herod's steward,
mentioned, 604

John, the apostle, 6-his design in writ-
ing his Gospel, ib.-his call to the dis-
cipleship, 64, 145-was a disciple of
the Baptist, and with Andrew was the
first who joined himself to Christ, 145
-with his brother James and Peter
witnessed the transfiguration, 243—was
equally ambitious with his mother in
the request for an eminent station in

the kingdom of Christ, 289-in what
respect he drank of the same cup and
partook of the same baptism as the
Saviour, 289, 290-the apparent dis-
crepancy between his testimony and
that of Matthew respecting the anoint-
ing, reconciled, 373, 374-why he was
called Boanerges, 458 - observations
on his reproving one who cast out
devils in the name of Christ, and fol-
lowed not with them, 490, 491-the
idea that he was the young man who
followed Christ after he was appre-
hended by the officers of the chief
priests, considered, 517, 518-discre-
pancy between John and Mark respect-
ing the hour of Christ's crucifixion,
reconciled, 521-is reproved for mani-
festing a revengeful spirit toward the
Samaritans, 616. See EVANGELISTS.
John the Baptist, where born, 43-his
dress, 446-is the voice which the pro-
phet predicted, 45, 445-his call to the
ministry, 570-the peculiar features of
his ministry, noticed, 45, 52, 166, 303,
538-540, 552, 554-submitting to the
baptism of John was a virtual renun-
ciation of Judaism as a ground of
hope, 46-why our Lord submitted to
it, 46, 53—when John began to preach
and baptize, 43-his baptism that of
repentance, 50-his acknowledged in-
feriority to the Messiah, ib.-his igno-
rance of the person of Christ, accounted
for, 53-his disciples fasted often and
multiplied their fasts after the impri-
sonment of their Master, 136 — the
motives which induced John to send
his disciples to Christ, considered, 162
-his character given by our Lord, 164
-in what respects John was greater
than the prophets, ib.-the prophecy
of Malachi applied by Christ in its
direct and primary sense to the Bap-
tist, ib.-how the least prophet or
teacher in the dispensation of Christ
is greater than John, 165—the charac-
ter of John as a preacher, 166—in
what respects he is compared to Elijah,
539, 166, 167-his fidelity in declaring
the illegality of the marriage of Herod
with Herodias, his brother Philip's
wife, and his faults generally, 209, 573