51
Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
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Verse 51. The same words have an impious and sacrilegious sense in the intention of the high priest, the enemy of Jesus Christ: and a divine and prophetic sense, in the intention of the Holy Ghost. V.—We here behold the privilege of the office and order, though in a wicked person: and as we have the assistance of God for the utterance of truth, which Caiphas neither meant nor knew, we may rest satisfied that Christ will not leave Peter’s chair; (Luke 22:32) whose faith he promises should never fail, though the occupants be as bad as their enemies describe them.
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