Identifier: lifeofourlordsav00flee (find matches)
Title: The life of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ : containing a full, accurate, and universal history from his taking upon himself our nature to his crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension: together with the lives, transactions, and sufferings of his holy evangelists, apostles, disciples, and other primitive martyrs. To which is added the history of the Jews
Year: 1830 (1830s)
Authors: Fleetwood, John Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885, engr
Subjects: Jesus Christ Apostles Martyrs Jews -- History
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Nathan Whiting
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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isely retorts on the Pharisees and Ilerodiansjwho propound an intricate question to him,—Settles the mostimportant point of the law.—Enforces his Mission and Doc-trine, and foretels the Judgment that would fall upon thePharisaical tribe. Tins representation of the state of the finally impenitent,appearing to be levelled at the pharisees, they immediately con-certed with the llerodians and Sadducees, on the most propermethod of putting Jesus to death. It is sufficiently evident,that their hatred was now carried to the highest pitch, becausethe most violent enmity which had so long subsisted between thetwo sects, was, on this occasion, suspended, and they joinedtogether, to execute * their cruel determination on the Son ofGod. They, however, thought it most eligible to act very cau-tiously, and endeavor, if possible, to catch some hasty ex-pression from him that they might render him odious to thepeople, and procure something against him that might serve MARRIAGE SUPPER. (Page 287.)
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^^ And he senl his servmits at supper-time, to say to than that were bidden, Comefor all I.hi72gs are now ready. dad they all v:ith one consent began to make c.vcuse.—Luke, xiv. 17, 13, ;.: K LIFE OF CHRIST. 289 as a basis for a persecution, Accordingly, they sent some oTtheir disciples to him, with orders to feign themselves just men,who manitained the greatest veneration for the divine law, anddreaded nothing more than the doing any thing inconsistentwith its precepts: and, under this specious cloak of hypocrisy,to beg his determination of an affair that had long lain heavyon their consciences; namely, the paying tribute to Caesar,which they thought inconsistent with their zeal for religion.This question was, it seems, furiously debated in our Saviourstime; one Judas, a native of Galilee, having implanted in theminds of the people a notion that taxes to a foreign power wereabsolutely unlawful. A doctrine so pleasing to the worldly-minded Jews, could not fail of friends, especially

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