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AFter that S. Peter had fully aunswe∣red the demaund of his Maister; by* 1.1 cōfessing him to be Christ, the sonne of the liuing God: our Sauiour pre∣sently charged him, and the rest of the dis∣ciples, that they shoulde [as then] tell no man that he was Iesus the Christ.
And, from that time forth, hee began to* 1.2 shewe and fore-tell them of his Passion; Death; and Resurrection; saying: * The* 1.3 sonne of man must goe vnto Ierusalem, & suffer many things of the Elders, and of the High-priests, and Scribes, & be slaine, and rise againe the third day.
Also, in the 20. of Mathew, the ninth of* 1.4 Marke, and the eyghteene of Saint Luke, besides sundry other places, he ceaseth not to instruct and perfect them in this poynt: bidding them * marke his words diligent∣lie. For, it shall come to passe, saith he, that the Sonne of man shall be deliuered into the hands of men. &c.
Likewise, being in the way going toward* 1.5 Ierusalem, hee tooke the twelue Disciples apart, and began againe to tell them, what things should come vnto him: saying; Be∣hold,* 1.6 we goe vp to Ierusalem, & the sonne of man shall be deliuered vnto the High∣priests,* 1.7 and to the Scribes; and they shall condemne him to death; and shall deliuer him vnto the Gentiles. And they shall mocke him, and scourge him, and spet vp∣on him, and kill him: but the third day he shall rise againe. * For, as Ionas was three* 1.8 dayes and three nights in the Whales belly,
so shall the sonne of man be three dayes & three nights in the hart of the earth.
And, as Moises lift vp the Serpent in the* 1.9 wildernesse, so must the Sonne of man bee lift vp: that who-soeuer beleeueth in him, shoulde not perrish, but haue euerlasting life.
After all these seuerall fore-tellings of his Passion, Iesus entered into Ierusalem, and* 1.10 vvent into the Temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought therein, and ouerthrewe the tables of the money-chan∣gers, and the seates of them that solde Doues.
Saying vnto them: Take these thinges* 1.11 hence: make not my fathers house, a house of merchandise.
For, it is written; My house shall be cal∣led,* 1.12 the house of Prayer; but ye haue made it a denne of theeues.
Also, hee taught daily in the Temple.* 1.13 And the High-priestes, & the Scribes, and the cheefe of the people, sought to destroy him.
But they coulde not finde vvhat they* 1.14 might doe vnto him: for all the people hanged vpon him when they heard him.
Then one of the twelue, named Iudas* 1.15 Iscariot, vvent vnto the cheefe Priestes, and said; VVhat will ye giue mee, and I vvill deliuer him vnto you?
And, when they heard it, they were glad,* 1.16 and promised that they woulde giue him* 1.17 money: namely, thirtie peeces of Siluer. And from that time he sought opportuni∣tie to betray him.
Now, hee that betrayed Iesus, had giuen* 1.18 them a token, saying: VVhom-so-euer I shall kisse, that is hee, lay hold on him.
And, forth-with hee came to Iesus, and said; GOD saue thee Maister, and kissed him.
Then the Bande, and the Captaine, and* 1.19 the officers of the Iewes, tooke Iesus, and bounde him, & ledde him away, to Annas first; for he was father in lawe to Caiphas, which was the high Priest that same yeere. And Caiphas was he that gaue counsell to the Iewes, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.
The cheefe Priestes [therefore] and the* 1.20 Elders, and all the whole Counsell, sought
false witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death: but found none. And though ma∣ny false witnesses came, yet founde they none whose witnes agreed together. But at the last, came two false witnesses, saying:* 1.21 VVee heard this man say; I will destroy this Temple of God made with hands, and within three dayes I will builde another, made without hands. But theyr witnes yet agreed not together.
Then the high Priest stood vp amongst* 1.22 them, and sayde vnto Iesus; I charge thee by the liuing God, that thou tell vs, if thou be Christ the Sonne of God.
And, when Iesus had told him the truth of that which he asked, hee beleeued him not, but presently rent his clothes, saying; Hee hath blasphemed, what haue wee any more neede of witnesses? Behold, now ye* 1.23 haue heard his blasphemy. What think ye? And they all condemned him to be vvor∣thie of death.
Then spate they in his face, and buffet∣ted* 1.24 him. And * the men that helde Jesus, mocked him, and strooke him. And when they had blindfolded him, they smote him on the face, saying; Prophecie vnto vs, (ô
Christ) who is hee that smote thee. And many other thinges blasphemously spake they against him.
Besides; when the morning vvas come,* 1.25 all the cheefe Priestes & Elders of the peo∣ple, tooke counsel against Iesus, to put him to death.
And they led him away bounde, and de∣liuered* 1.26 him vnto Pontius Pilate the Go∣uernour.
And, they began to accuse him, saying:* 1.27 Wee haue founde this man peruerting the people, and forbidding to pay tribute to Caesar, saying; That hee is Christ, a King. &c.
Pilate, after hee had examined Iesus, and* 1.28 coulde finde no fault in him, sent him to Herod. Herod, with his men of warre de∣spised and mocked him: and arrayed him in white, and sent him backe againe to Pi∣late.
Pilate, seeing nothing woorthy of death was done vnto Iesus by Herod, assembled together the Iewes, & demaunded of thē,* 1.29 what * hee should doe with Iesus, vvhich was called Christ? Then aunswered they all at once, saying: Let him bee crucified.
And, when he asked them, saying: What euill hath hee doone? they cryed the more vehemently: Let him be crucified.
So Pilate willing to content the Iewes,* 1.30 loosed vnto them Barrabas, a malefactour, whō they desired; and after hee had scour∣ged Iesus, deliuered him vnto the Souldi∣ours, that he might be crucified.
The souldiours of the Gouernour, (ha∣uing* 1.31 Christ in theyr custody) led him into the Common-hall, and presently gathe∣red about him the whole Bande; and they strypped him, and put vppon him a Scar∣let robe. Then platted they a Crowne of thornes, and put it vppon his heade, and a Reede in his right hande, and bowed theyr knees before him, & mocked him, saying: God saue thee, King of the Iewes.
They also spate vpon him, & smote him* 1.32 on the heade with the Reede. And, after they had mocked him, they tooke the robe from him, and put his owne rayment on him, and led him away to crucifie him.
And, as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, named Simon; him they com∣pelled* 1.33 to beare his Crosse.
And, they brought him to a place na∣med* 1.34 Golgotha: which is by interpretation, the place of Dead-mens skuls. * There they* 1.35 crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Iesus in the midst.
This was done about the sixt howre, and* 1.36 there was darknes ouer all the Lande vntill the ninth houre.
The Sunne was darkned, and the vaile* 1.37 of the Temple rent through the midst. And Iesus cryed with a loude voyce, and sayd; Father, into thine hands I commend my spirit. And when he thus had sayd, hee gaue vp the Ghost.
Thus suffered our Sauiour (according to his owne fore-telling) many wrongs, in∣iuries, & reproches of his enemies, for our sakes. And, in the end, after all his vvhyp∣pings, buffettings, mockings, and reui∣lings, hee was * deliuered to death [vpon* 1.38 the Crosse] for our sinnes.
Yea; hee was deliuered to death, by the* 1.39 determinate counsell, and foreknowledge of God.
Otherwise, it had not been in the power of his enemies to depriue him of life. For,
no man could take his life from him: but he layd it downe of himselfe. For he, [be∣ing* 1.40 both God and man,] had power to lay downe his life; & power to take it again.
Yet, forasmuch as he came downe from heauen, not to doe his owne will, but the * will of God which sent him; hee (there∣fore)* 1.41 vvillinglie gaue * himselfe for our sinnes: that hee might deliuer vs from this* 1.42 present euill world, according to the will of God, euen our Father.
And that, by his suffering; hee might* 1.43 make an excellent and merritorious satis∣faction vnto his Father, for mans iniquity.
For, to this end especially was the passion* 1.44 of our Sauiour Christ; that GOD might thereby bring to passe a worke, in which he might more fully manifest both his iustice and mercy, then hee did in the Creation: namely, the reconciliation betweene him∣selfe and man; through the suffering of his onely sonne for sinne.
So that the Passion of Christ, being con∣sidered* 1.45 as a bare passion, ministers no com∣fort vnto vs: but all our ioy standeth in this, that by fayth we apprehend it, as a full satis-faction, meanes, or agreement, made vnto God, for our iniquities.
And confesse withall, that as the princi∣pall* 1.46 cause thereof, was the price of mans Redemption; so it was done by the decree and prouidence of God.
After our Sauiour had thus fully suffered for our offences; there came a rich man of* 1.47 Arimathea, named Ioseph, who had also himselfe beene Iesus disciple: hee went to Pilate, and requested the body of Iesus. And Pilate, (* after hee vnderstoode that* 1.48 Iesus was dead,) commaunded the body to be giuen him. So Ioseph tooke it, & wrap∣ped it in a cleane linnen cloth, and put it in his new Tombe, which he had hewne out in a Rocke, wherin (before that time) was* 1.49 * neuer any man layd. There then did he, and Nicodemus helping him, lay the bo∣die of Iesus. And when they had doone,* 1.50 they rolled a great stone to the doore of the Sepulcher, and departed.
At this time also, there were certaine wo∣men,* 1.51 which had followed Iesus from Ga∣lile, ministring vnto him, among vvhom was Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mo∣ther of Iames and Ioses, and the mother of Zebedeus sonnes. These beheld the Sepul∣cher,* 1.52 and sawe howe the body of Iesus was
layd. And they returned, and prepared o∣dours and sweet oyntments, but rested the Saboth day, according to the commaun∣dement.
On the morrow after the Saboth, bee∣ing* 1.53 the first day of the weeke, these fore∣said women came early in the morning vn∣to the Sepulcher, bringing with them the odours which they had prepared. And perceiuing the stone to bee rolled away frō the doore thereof, they went in, but found not the body of the Lord Iesus.
And it came to passe, that vvhilst they* 1.54 were amazed thereat, two men suddainlie stoode by them in shining vestures. And as they trembled and durst not looke vp, the men said vnto them: Why seek ye him that liueth, among the deade? Hee is not heere, but is risen. Remember howe hee spake vnto you while hee was yet in Gali∣lee, saying; The sonne of man must be de∣liuered into the hands of sinfull men, & be crucified; & the third day rise againe.
And they remembred the vvordes of* 1.55 Christ, and returned from the Sepulcher; and tolde all these thinges vnto the eleuen, and to all the remnant. &c.
The same day [also,] Iesus himselfe,* 1.56 (that hee might make manifest his Resur∣rection to such as loued him) appeared first to Mary Magdalen, out of whom hee had cast seauen deuils. And, at another time, after that, he appeared vnto two of his dis∣ciples, as they went into the Country. And they went and tolde these thinges vnto the Apostles, and the rest of his disciples: but they beleeued it not.
After this, hee appeared also vnto the* 1.57 eleuen, as they sate together; and reproued them for their vnbeleefe, and hardnesse of hart: because they beleeued not thē which had seene him, being risen vp againe.
And further, to confirme them in an vn∣doubted beleefe of his most certaine Re∣surrection, and to assure them by plaine proofes, that he was truly their Lorde and maister Christ which appeared vnto them, and no deceitfull or deluding Spirit, (as* 1.58 they at the first sight supposed him to be,) he first shewed vnto them his hands & his feete, and then commaunded them to han∣dle and feele his body, and to beholde his flesh and bones. * Afterwardes, he asked* 1.59 them for meat, & did eate the same in their presence. Hee also opened their vnder∣standing,
and expounded the Scriptures vnto them, saying: Thus it is written: and thus it behoued Christ to suffer, and to rise againe frō the dead the third day: and that repentance & remission of sinnes, should be preached in his Name among all Nati∣ons; beginning at Ierusalem. &c. After∣ward, he led them * forth into Bethania, &* 1.60 lift vp his hands & blessed them.
And when hee had sundry times presen∣ted himselfe aliue vnto them, (after that he had suffered,) and sufficiently prooued his resurrection * by many infallible tokens;* 1.61 (beeing seene of them by the space of for∣tie dayes, & speaking of those things which appertaine to the kingdome of God,) hee then gathered them together, and com∣maunded them, that they shoulde not de∣part frō Ierusalem; but waite for the pro∣mise of the Father: which (said he) ye haue hearde of mee. Namely, the comming of * the holy Ghost. &c.* 1.62
And when Iesus had spoken these things vnto his Apostles, (to the intent they might as well be eye-witnesses of his Ascention, as records to the worlde of his Resurrecti∣on,) while * they beheld, he was taken vp:* 1.63
for a clowde tooke him out of their sight.
And for further suretie hereof, then the bare sight of their eyes onely, (though that alone, were of it selfe, aboue all other most sufficient,) they heard with theyr eares, the very same thing which they saw with theyr eyes, further affirmed vnto them by tvvo heauenly witnesses: for, while they looked stedfastly after him, towards heauen as hee went, * behold, two men stoode by thē in* 1.64 white apparrell, which also said; Yee men of Galilee, why stand yee gazing into hea∣uen? This Iesus, which is taken vp from you into heauen, shall so come, as yee haue seene him goe into heauen.
Thus much, onely to prooue, according to the Scriptures, the Passion, Death, Bu∣riall, Resurrection, and Ascention of our Sauiour Christ. VVhom * the Heauen* 1.65 must containe, vntil the time that all things be restored, vvhich GOD hath spoken by the mouth of all his holie Prophets, since the vvorld began.
Math, 16, 16 20.
verse, 20.
Mark, 8, 30, 31,
Luke, 9, 44.
Mat, 20, 17, 18, 19.
Marke, 10, 32, 33, 34,
Luke, 18, 31, 32, 33,
Mat. 12. 40.
Ioh, 3, 14, 15
Marke, 11, 11, 15.
Iohn, 2, 16,
Mat. 21. 13.
Luke, 19. 47,
verse, 48,
Math, 26, 14, 15,
Mar, 14, 11,
Math, 26, 15, 16.
Math. 26, 47. 48.
Iohn. 18. 12. 13, 14.
Mat. 26. 59. 60. 61.
Mark, 14, 56 57, 58, 59,
Math, 26, 63 64, 65, 66.
Mark. 14, 61 62. 63, 64.
Math. 26. 67 Luke 22, 63 64, 65,
Mat, 27, 1,
verse, 2.
Luke, 23, 2,
Luke, 23, 4, 7. 11. 15.
Math, 27, 22, 23,
Mark, 15, 15
Math, 27, 27 28, 29,
verse, 30, 31,
verse, 32,
Mar, 15, 22.
Iohn, 19, 18.
Luke, 23, 44
verse, 45, 46
Rom, 4. 25.
Acts, 2, 23,
Iohn, 10, 18.
Ioh, 6, 38,
Gala, 1, 4.
Ierome.
Chrisostome.
Augustine.
Augustine.
Math, 27, 57 58, 59, 60.
Mar. 15, 45.
Ioh, 19, 41, 42
Math. 27. 60
Math, 27, 55, 56,
Luke, 23. 55, 56.
Luke, 24, 1, 2, 3,
verse, 4. 5. 6, 7, 8.
verse, 9, 10.
Mark, 16, 9, 10. 11, 12,
Mark. 16. 14
Luke, 24, 37 38, 39. 40.
verse, 41. 42, 43, &c.
Luke, 24, 50
Acts, 1, 3, 4. 5.
Iohn, 14, 26
Acts. 1. 9.
Acts, 1, 10. 11.
Acts, 3, 21.