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definite notes of time in some cases , ( see p . 314 , ) it may reasonably be concluded that when he uses indefinite expressions , it was for want of information as to the precise date . This indefiniteness in the notes of time presents itself in various parts ; ( e . g . ch . v . 12 , 17 , vi . 12 , viii . 22 ;) and there are also in his Gospel , even in the historical portions of it , fewer means of deciding the locality of events than in Matthew ' s .
On the whole , it is probable , that notwithstanding the expression jto ^ Hf ^ , ( ch . i . 3 , ) in a continued series , in a connected narrative , * ( so generally understood to shew that Luke wrote his narrative in the order of time , ) a preference would usually be given , on internal evidence , to the order of Matthew , but for the great agreement between the arrangement of Luke and that of Mark . This is considered by many as affording reasonable presumption that St . Luke ' s order is most according to the succession of events ; because
it is supposed , two independent writers could not adopt the same order but from its agreeing with-reality . Bishop Marsh argues the contrary . According to his hypothesis , each of the first three Evangelists possessed a copy of one common document , with various additions : on this supposition , the agreement of Mark and Luke only proves that they followed the arrangement adopted in the common document ; while the departures from that succession of events by Matthew , a personal witness , is an indication that he left
it , owing to his knowledge of its non-accordance with the real order of events . If Bishop Marsh ' s hypothesis be correct , the argument seems decisive : it has great force also on the hypothesis of more than one common document . The phenomena of verbal agreement in various parts between Mark and Luke , and between one or both of them and Matthew , can be adequately explained only on one or other of these two hypotheses ; and there is , in the latter at least , nothing at all improbable .
Independently of these hypotheses , however , we have stated grounds for our conviction that St . Luke ' s order , in that fully occupied interval between the imprisonment of the Baptist , and the mission of the Twelve , ought not to be preferred to Matthew ' s ; but the agreement of the former with Mark ' s renders it desirable that we analyze that portion of Luke ' s Gospel which extends from the imprisonment of the Baptist to our Lord ' s last journey to Jerusalem , in connexion with the corresponding part of Mark's , in order to shew in what way their common sources might have occasioned the ^ order found in Luke ' s Gospel , where it differs from that of Matthew .
Before the public preaching of Christ , which commenced after the imprisonment of the Baptist , we may place that visit of our Lord to Nazareth , which Luke records in the fourth chapter , vers . 16—30 : and from this part of his Gospel we shall trace the correspondence with St . Mark ' s . I . Mark i . 16—iii . 20 ; Luke iv . 31—vi . 19 : ( Mark begins exclusively with the Call of Peter , Andrew , James , and John : ) the cure of the
Demoniac in the synagogue at Capernaum : the cure of Peter ' s wife ' s mother , and many others , followed by a progress through Galilee : ( Luke here introduces the miraculous draug ht of fishes , which is commonly regarded as the same transaction with the Call of Peter , &c . : ) the cure of the Leper : the cure of the Paralytic : the Call of Levi : the discourse of our Lord at Levi ' s Feast : the Walk in the Cornfields : the Cure of the Man with the
Withered Hand : the Selection of the Apostles . II . Luke , vi . 20—viii . 3 , here introduces a portion peculiar to himself .
* See the useful Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament from the Clavis Philologica of Wuhl , by Edward Robinson . Audover . 1825 .
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On the Chrontfogy and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives ' . 385
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/25/
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