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It begins with the record he had obtained of our Lord ' s discourse to his disciples ( delivered , as Matthew records * on a mount , and at an earlier period ) ; then the cure of the Centurion's Servant : the raising of the Widow ' s Son at Nain : the Message from the Baptist : the visit at the house of Simon the Pharisee : another progress , when several women attended our Lord .-
—Whether the records of these formed one document , or whether St . Luke arranged I hem as at present , cannot be certainly known ; but the latter seems the most probable . Two of the occurrences are given by St . Luke alone ; and , in reference to each other , and independently of any other portion , they are all , probably , in the real order of time * This is the case , too , with the greater part of the former portion .
IIL ( 1 ) Mark in . 20—iv . 34 ; Luke viii . 4—21 . In this portion of Mark , we find the discourse respecting Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit : the application of our Lord ' s Mother and Brethren : the Parables of the Sower ; the seed in the Earth ; and the Mustard Seed . In Luke we find only the Parable of the Sower , ( with a short addition respecting the lighted
candle , ) and the application of our Lord ' s Mother and Brethren . Other parts of this portion , however , are found in his Gnomology . As Mark connects this portion with the following , and as what Luke has of it bears the same position in reference to the next portion , this and the following may have formed one document ; and we have numbered them accordingly .
III . ( 2 ) Mark iv . 35—v . 43 ; Luke viii . 22—ix . 56 . This portion consists of a series of events , following each other in close succession ; and just such as might originate in the oral narratives of eye-witnesses , retracing them in succession . It begins with our Lord ' s crossing the Lake , and stilling the storm : then the cure of the Gadarene Demoniacs : the application of Jairus : the cure of the disordered Woman : and the raising of the Daughter of Jairus . We know from St . Matthew ' s Gospel ( ch . ix . 18 ) , that
the application of Jairus was made while our Lord was at his house ; and it is obvious that the person who originally recorded this portion , could not have himself been present at the feast , and that he simply gave an account of facts which came within his observation . It is scarcely possible that the two portions I . and III . 2 , could originally have been recorded by one person , himself present at the transactions related : no such person could have
separated the circumstances at Matthew's feast and the application of Jairus * And this throws much light on the nature of the Gospels by Mark and Luke , neither of whom were eye-witnesses , and both having to rely on information from written records , or oral narration ; abundantly satisfactory for all essential purposes ; but not affording the power to ascertain the succession of events as a whole , though giving them in a true order in particular parts .
Mark now adds the account of our Lord ' s visit to Nazareth , ( ch . vi . 1- — 6 , ) which seems to be unconnected with what precedes and follows . The remaining portions agree in the order of time , with the corresponding part of St . Matthew ' s Gospel . IV . Mark vi . 7— ' 44 ; Luke ix . 1—17 * The Mission of the Apostles : their Return , after the Death of John : the immediately subsequent Miracle of the Five Thousand . V . Mark vi . 45—viii . 26 . Occurrences between the Miracle of the Five Thousand , and the Confesssion of Peter .
VL Mark viiu 27—ix * 50 ; Luke ix . 18—50 . The Confession of Peter : the Transfiguration : ihe < 3 « re of the Epileptic : and the Rebuke of the Ambitious Disciples , and connected circumstances *
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386 On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narrative *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1831, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2598/page/26/
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