 And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so ? 23 Jesus answered him, If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou...  A view of the evidences of Christianity - Page 117by William Paley - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Richard Hele - 1820 - 112 pages
...struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, answerest Thou the high priest so ? Jesus answered him, if I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou Me > Joi» «iii. I"*Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council sought false witness against... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 494 pages
...this usage at a time when all circumstances concurred to exasperate the spirit of an innocent man ; if I have spoken evil, bear 'witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me? * — When his enemies were completing the last scene of their cruelty in putting him to death, all... | |
 | 1821 - 328 pages
...the jndge, where it was not lawful to strike* as it is not with us at this day, he only replies : " If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?" He says nothing against their smiting him, in case he had been guilty of speaking evil, that is, blasphemy... | |
 | John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...the Judge, where it was not lawful to strike, as it is not with us at this day, he only replies i " If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?" He says nothing against their smiting him, in. case he had been guilty of speaking evil, that is, blasphemy... | |
 | James Clarke Franks - 1821 - 570 pages
...one of the officers that stood by, because he had " so answered the high priest." " If," said he, " I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me d ?" His answer to the high priest was perfectly just and respectful, unless it could be proved that... | |
 | Anthony Forster - 1821 - 372 pages
...his hand, with what condescending mildness did he reprove him ! " If I have spoken evil," said he, " bear witness of the evil : but if well, why smitest thou me ?"f But it was while suspended upon the cross, in the midst of insults, and racked with torture, that... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 510 pages
...when unjustly and ignominiously smitten before the high-priest, replying in the spirit of meekness, " If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil ; but if well, why smitest thou me ?" Ah, brethren! do those who cruelly and bitterly revile their erring brethren, or even open sinners,... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - 1822 - 516 pages
...this usage at a time when all circumstances concurred to exasperate the spirit of an innocent man ; if I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil ; but if well, why smitest thoume?* — When his enemies were completing the last scene of their cruelty in putting him to death,... | |
 | Benjamin Allen - 1824 - 492 pages
...interrogated concerning them before Annas, and had received a blow from one of the officers, said, 'If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why smitest thou me?' If then our Lord, who was infallible, did, nevertheless, not disdain to listen to any thing that could... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 438 pages
...with the palm of his hand, and said, "Answerest thou the highpriest thus ?" 23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil : but if well, why dost thou smite me ?" 24 (Abw Annas had sent him bound to Caiaphas the highpriest.) 25 And Simon Peter... | |
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