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 230 the Passover, the head of a Jewish household has to perform this search after leaven. It must therefore have been a rabble that crowded round the Prætorium.

Page 193. Dared not enter to any house. This is a point mentioned by John alone, and seems to prove that he had some independent testimony.

Page 197. Faded rose-wreath. One can only explain the so-called crown of thorns in some such way as this. No one desiring to torture another would first torture himself still more, as any one would have to do to make a crown of thorns.

Page 198. Jesus. It is only by remembering that Barabbas' name was also Jesus that we can understand the scene before the Prætorium. See Note on page 123.

Page 201. Four modes of capital punishment. This proves that Jesus' death was according to Roman, not to Jewish Law, which only gave instantaneous death for capital punishment.

Page 202. Words of menace. Luke xxiii. 28-31. It is probable that these not over-kind words were said in response to the offer of the anæsthetic, made, according to the merciful custom of the time, by the ladies of Jerusalem.

Page 208. Rufus ben Simon. A real personage.

Page 209. Appeareth in these records. It is forgotten, when judging of the conduct of the Jews of Jerusalem, that they never saw him in any of his attractive aspects.

Page 216. Daniel and Enoch. The latter is quoted as scripture in the Epistle of St. Jude. For the use of the expression Son of Man in it, see the Excursus of Charles in his translation of Enoch.