Preparation of | Same as Matt.| Same as Matt. | Discourses Passover.  Eating | | | with disciples, of Passover, and | | | but before the institution of the | | | Passover.  Washes Holy Eucharist. | | | the disciples’ Gethsemane. | | | feet.  Nothing Betrayal by Judas. | | | said of Holy Led captive to | | | Eucharist, nor Caiaphas.  Denied | | | of agony in by St. Peter. | | | Gethsemane. | | | Malchus’ ear. | | | Led captive to | | | Annas first. | | | Then to Caiaphas. | | | Denied | | | by St. Peter. | | | FRIDAY. | FRIDAY. | FRIDAY. | FRIDAY | | | Led to Pilate. | As Matthew, | Led to | Taken to Judas hangs | but hour of | Pilate.  Sent | Pilate.  Jews himself.  Tried. | crucifixion | to Herod. | would not enter, Condemned to | given, | Sent back to | that they death.  Scourged | 9 a.m. | Pilate.  Rest | might eat and mocked.  Led | | as in | the Passover. to crucifixion. | | Matthew; but | Scourged by Darkness from 12 | | one | Pilate before to 3.  Died at 3. | | malefactor | condemnation, | | repents. | and mocked.  Shown | | | by Pilate to | | | Jews at 12.

I became uneasy as I proceeded with my task, for discrepancies leaped at me from my four columns; the uneasiness grew as the contradictions increased, until I saw with a shock of horror that my “harmony” was a discord, and a doubt of the veracity of the story sprang up like a serpent hissing in my face.  It was struck down in a moment, for to me to doubt was sin, and to have doubted on the very eve of the Passion was an added crime.  Quickly I assured myself that these apparent contradictions were necessary as tests of faith, and I forced myself to repeat Tertullian’s famous “Credo quia impossible,” till, from a wooden recital, it became a triumphant affirmation.  I reminded myself that St. Peter had said of the Pauline Epistles that in them were “some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest ... unto their own destruction.”  I shudderingly recognised that I must be very unlearned and unstable to find discord among the Holy Evangelists, and imposed on myself an extra fast as penance for my ignorance and lack of firmness in the faith.  For my mental position was one to which doubt was one of the worst of sins.  I knew that there were