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and education , he would have access to a class in society superior to that of the fishermen and publicans of Gaftfee . To the lafter cause may be attributed St . Luke ' s knowledge of various occurrences at the houses of the rich , which are not recorded by Matthew or Mark ; and also of those connected with the household or the jurisdiction of Herod r to the former , his knowledge of discourses , parables , &c , which were delivered in the Persea , or at least recorded by believers who resided there , and probably but Mule known in Galilee . It is not likely that St . Luke would hare much access to
Apostles , ihost of whom must have left Jud « a > , ana of whom one alone is mentioned in the later part of St . Paul's history ( Actexfci . 18 } : but many of the Seventy must have been still living * and from their recollections , as well ad from those records , which ( either from personal knowledge , or from the preachings of the Apostles ) would be early drawn up , of our Lonf s transactions or discourses in particular portions of his ministry , he must have had sources of information beyond what any single Apostle eould have supplied . The Gospel of Luke may be divided into six leading portions :
I . The record of the early history of John and of Jesus : ch . u ii . II . The Ministry of the Baptist ; with the Baptism and Temptation of Christ : ch . iii . 1 ^—iv . 13 . III . The Ministry of Christ in Galilee : ch . iv . 14—is . 62 . IV . Miscellaneous Discourses and Transactions principally connected with trie Pera&a r ch . % . 1—xvii . LO . V . Discourses and Occurrences during the last Journey to Jerusalem : ch * Xvii . 11—xix . 28 *
* The word&in Luke xvii . 11 , a ? e rendered , " And it came to pass , as he went to Jerusalem , that he passed through the midst of Samaria aad Galilee * . " & « y . G < rov X < x / x < xpeice <; k «* Y < z \ ika , Kz $ . As Luke could not have represented owe Lord ' s course to Jerusalem from any part of Palestine , as passing through the midsft , first of Samaria , and then of Galilee , —and as he was too accurate a writer to place the countries in that order , if our Lord had been journeying from any part of Galilee to Jerusalem—it appears most reasonable to suppose , that his words mean , "' through the borders-of Samaria and Galilee / ' From ch . ix . 51—^ 56 and Matt . xhr . 1 , it ap ^
pears , that , ou our Lord ' s last journey to Jerusalem , having been rejected hi Samaria , he passed over the Jordan , into the Pereea—probably over the bridge near Scythopolis . His course would , therefore , lie along the confiues of Samaria and Galilee ; and Luke would naturally mention Samaria first , because his previous view of our Lord ' s course was from Samaria . This is the interpretation of Wetstein and others ^ and it now appears to us fully satisfactory . Lightfoot imagines that Galilee ( as
loosely it might ) included Pereea ; and , further , that it here means Perse a , which is not an admissible interpretation . Paulus and Greswell suppose , that , as Christ , after raising Lazarus , resided for a time atEphraim , and afterwards went into Ga-Klee , before he came to Jerusalem at the last passover , Luke speaks of him , hi the passage tinder consideration , as taking & circuit from Ephraim , through Samaria ami Galilee , in the way to Jerusalem !
. Regarding Luke xvii . 11 as . referring to our Lord's last journey to Jerusalem , we have little hesitation in considering it as the recommencement of that narrative which the Evangelist had interrupted at the close of the ninth chapter , in order to introduce a Gnomology consisting of miscellaneous records , without specific dates , the ^ Artioie of Which he may have collected in the Peraea , and much of which he may have
known to be connected with it in point of locality . There are in it some facts which could not have occurred in our Saviour ' s last journey CO Jerusalem , ad the-missio n of the Seventy , and the visit to Bethany in the tenth chapter $ and some discourses ( as we shall hereafter specify ) which the Gospel of Matthew , and internal evidence , would lead one to rfcfer tfr an ettrlfet f » eiiod : bat , On the other hand , there are others , ( as ch . xiii . 1—9 and 22— -3 & >) which ao ob > viou » ly suit that journey , th , iri
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382 On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/22/
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