In the sub-title I have called this book a Devotional History, because the subject is one which has to be studied with the heart as well as the head. But I have not on this account written in the declamatory and interrogatory style common in devotional works. I have to confess that some even of the most famous books on the Passion are to me intolerably tedious, because they are written, so to speak, in oh's and ah's. Surely this is not essential to devotion. The scenes of the Passion ought, indeed, to stir the depths of the heart; but this purpose is best attained, not by the narrator displaying his own emotions, but, as is shown in the incomparable model of the Gospels, by the faithful exhibition of the facts themselves. GLASGOW, 1894. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE ARREST Matt. xxvi. 47-56; Mark xiv. 43-50; Luke xxii. 47-53; John viii. 1-11. II. THE ECCLESIASTICAL TRIAL Matt. xxvi. 57-68; Mark xiv. 51-65; Luke xxii. 54-71; John xviii. 12-14, 19-24. III. THE GREAT DENIAL Matt. xxvi. 69-75; Mark xiv. 66-72; Luke xxii. 54-62; John xviii. 15-18, 25-7. IV. THE CIVIL TRIAL Matt. xxvii. 11; Mark xv. 2; Luke xxiii. 2-4; John xviii. 28-38. V. JESUS AND HEROD Luke xxiii. 5-12. VI. BACK TO PILATE Matt. xxvii. 15-23; Mark xv. 6-14; Luke xxiii. 13-25; John xviii. 39, 40. VII. THE CROWN OF THORNS Matt. xxvii. 26-30; Mark xv. 15-20; Luke xxiii. 25; John xix. 1-5. VIII. THE SHIPWRECK OF PILATE Matt. xxvii. 24, 25; Mark xv. 15; Luke xxiii. 25; John xix. 5-16. IX. JUDAS ISCARIOT Matt. xxvii. 3-10; Acts i. 18, 19. X. VIA DOLOROSA Matt. xxvii. 31-3; Mark xv. 20, 21; Luke xxiii. 26; John xix. 16, 17. XI. THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM Luke xxiii. 27-31. XIL. CALVARY Matt. xxvii. 33-8; Mark xv. 27, 28; Luke xxiii. 32, 33; John xix. 18-22. XIII. THE GROUPS ROUND THE CROSS Matt. xxvii. 39-44, 55, 56; Mark xv. 29-32; Luke xxiii. 35-7, 49; John xix. 23-5. XIV. THE FIRST WORD FROM THE CROSS Luke xxiii. 34. XV. THE SECOND WORD FROM THE CROSS Luke xxiii. 39-43. XVI. THE THIRD WORD FROM THE CROSS John xix. 25-27. XVII. THE FOURTH WORD FROM THE CROSS Matt. xxvii. 46-9; Mark xv. 34-6. XVIII. THE FIFTH WORD FROM THE CROSS John xix. 28. XIX. THE SIXTH WORD FROM THE CROSS John xix. 30. XX. THE SEVENTH WORD FROM THE CROSS Luke xxiii. 46. XXI. THE SIGNS Matt. xxvii. 50-4; Mark xv. 38, 39; Luke xxiii. 44, 45, 47. XXII. THE DEAD CHRIST John xix. 31-7. XXIII. THE BURIAL Matt. xxvii. 57-61; Mark xv. 42-7; Luke xxiii. 50-6; John xix. 38-42. CHAPTER I. THE ARREST Our study of the closing scenes of the life of our Lord begins at the point where He fell into the hands of the representatives of justice; and this took place at the gate of Gethsemane and at the midnight hour.