John Wesley

“Abba, Father,” He said, “all things are possible for You. Take this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.”

“Sore amazed - The original word imports the most shocking amazement, mingled with grief: and that word in the next verse which we render sorrowful intimates, that he was surrounded with sorrow on every side, breaking in upon him with such violence, as was ready…”

For many bore false witness against Jesus, but their testimony was inconsistent.

“Their evidences were not sufficient - The Greek words literally rendered are, Were not equal: not equal to the charge of a capital crime: it is the same word in the 59th verse.”

“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”

“We heard him say - It is observable, that the words which they thus misrepresented, were spoken by Christ at least three years before, John ii, 19.”

And the charge inscribed against Him read: THE KING OF THE JEWS.

“Want of justice, or courage, or common sense? The poor coward sacrifices justice to popular clamour, and enrages those whom he seeks to appease, by so unseasonably repeating that title, The king of the Jews, which he could not but know was so highly offensive…”

Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they went to the tomb.

“At the rising of the sun - They set out while it was yet dark, and came within sight of the sepulchre, for the first time, just as it grew light enough to discern that the stone was rolled away, Matt.”

they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they…

“Even at this day in every believer faith has a latent miraculous power; (every effect of prayer being really miraculous;) although in many, both because of their own littleness of faith, and because the world is unworthy, that power is not exerted.”

And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.

“They preached everywhere - At the time St. Mark wrote, the apostles had already gone into all the known world, Rom. x, 18; and each of them was there known where he preached: the name of Christ only was known throughout the world.”