1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

60 LECTURE 19.
others, with a strong faith that they should see the con
solation of lsrael
By this text the high priest convipced the council
of the necessity of putting to death Jesus. Then
gathered the chief pfieats and Pharisees a council,
and said, What do we ! for this man doth many miracles.
If me lef him thus alone, all men will believe on
him; and the Romans will come, and take away both
oui place and nationn
And one of them, named Caiaphas, being high priest
that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
nor consider that it is expedient for us that one man
should die for the people, and that the whole nation per-'
ieh not And this apake he not of himself, (not his own
pro hecy ;) but, being high priest that year, he prophesieB
(from Daniel's seven weeh ; for then is not
another prophecy in the 0fd Teatarnent which shows
what year Christ should suffer) that Jesus should die
for that nation ; and not for that nation only, but that,
also, he should gather together in one the children of
God, that were scattered abroad," John xi. 47-43.
The high priest argues that Jesus must die for the
peo le.
$he seventy weeka shows that the Measiah mu& be
cut off at the close of the last week, nnd not for himself.
Also Peter had occasion to say in his epistle, U Of which
ealvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently,
who prophesied of the grace that should come
unto you, searching what, or what manner of time, tlie
spirit of Christ, which was in them, did siplfy, when it
testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the
glory that should follow," 1 Peter i. 10, 11.
Where was the exact time of Christ's sufferings
prophesied of but in Daniel's seventy weeks Again,
to this Christ alludes when he says,LbhIy time is not et
fully come ;" and, &&Then they sou lrt to take him, gut
no man laid hands on him, because%is hour was not et
come:" that is, the ieventy reeks were not yet ldfilled,
John vii. 8, 30. Mark telle us, xiv. 41, "The
hour is come; behold, the Son of Man ia betrayed
into the hnn& of sinnera"