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When our Saviour descended personally into the kingdom of hell to gather these spirits which He had gained by His death, all the dwellers therein bent the knee to Him and did Him profound reverence. From that time the sign of the Cross has been fearful and terrible to demons, because it is the figure of Christ our Lord crucified, and because by it we were redeemed, and through it they were conquered and humiliated.

If our Saviour was admirable in His great silence during His Passion, never attempting to defend Himself, He was not less admirable in what He now spoke to excuse His enemies.

-Have not managed to do one of these each day as I had hoped. ☹️

Pilate must have felt forced to consider (his wife's) message carefully, & to ask many questions & give many answers concerning it, & so the people would quickly obtain knowledge of it... news spread abroad throughout the city as to what the wife of the Governor had seen in favor of our Savior. And this was likewise an illustrious testimony of His innocence, and a means to cast suspicion on those who accused Him.

Fr. Luis writes of 'the other disciple" Jn18:15 as other than the evangelist John, '... as others think, and with greater probability, some citizen of Jerusalem of those who followed His teaching, and who, being in a higher rank of life, was acquainted with the High Priest.'