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V . Occurrences during the Last Journey to Jerusalem : ch . xix . xx . VI . Transactions from our Lord ' s Entry into Jerusalem , to his Ascension-: th . xxi .- —xxvtii .
In the fourth part , St . Matthew's record very closely agrees , in subject , and in arrangement , with that of Mark . St . Luke's , we have seen ( p . 386 ) , does not contain the portion of the history between the miracle of the Five Thousand and the Confession of Peter : but as far as his record goes , his arrangement agrees with that of the other two Evangelists ,
The third part has , necessarily , more of the character of a Gnomology ; and were it necessary , transposition might , we think , be freely made in it z but with the exception of one occurrence ( the Walk through the Cornfields ) which from some cause is associated in each of the three Gospels with the Cure of the Man with the Withered Hand , there is nothing decidedly opposing the opinion that all is arranged in the order of time .
In the second part , the reader will expect , from what we have already said , that we regard St . Matthew ' s order as uniformly to be followed , with the exception of the cure of Peter ' s wife's mother , which is placed by him ( ch . viii . 14—17 ) after our Lord ' s return from his first progress , whereas St . Mark places it before that progress , soon after the Call of Peter . Now considering the connexion of Mark with Peter , and siill more his express refe- ' rence of this miracle and those which followed it , to the Sabbath ob which
our Lord cured the Daemoniac in the synagogue at Capernaum , and that he so speaks of the latter , that it appears to have immediately succeeded the Call of Peter , we adopt as preferable the position of it in St . Mark ' s Gospel . * St . Matthew ' s account of the facts which he records is , in general , more compendious than that of the other Evangelists ; but all is orderly ; and the mind can follow it , with close attention to time and place , ( just as in the fourth part , ) without any perplexity or even difficulty .
The fundamental principles , then , on which we would arrange the Records of our Lord ' s Ministry , are the three following : 1 . That it included two Passovers only ; lasting a year and a few months . 2 . That the miracle of the Five Thousand occurred not long before the second Passover , at which our Lord was crucified .
3 . That of the first three Gospels , St . Matthew's arrangement should be made the general guide . And to these we may add the following , as a subsidiary principle . 4 . That no portion should be separated from its connexion in the particular Gospel in which it is found , unless the separation be required by the ascertained or at least very probable order of time . It may now be satisfactory to the reader if we give a general outline o £
* We have considered the views of the able Editor of the Boston Harmony , Pref . p . ix . ; but we prefer the opinion that St . Mark ' s record here presents the real order of time . The part of his Gospel which respects the interval between the commencement of Christ's public preaching in Galilee , and his first progress , is so detailed , connected , and consecutive , that it seems to us reasonable to follow it here . St .
Matthew might , when writing his Gospel , introduce his brief record in its present ' position , ( ch . viii . 14—16 , ) from the events having occurred at Capernaum , about the time of the first progress . It does not appear to us probable that St . Matthew would not have intimated that the Sermon on the Mount , the cure of the Leper , and that of the Centurion ' s Servant , took place on the sabbath , supposing such had becu the case , us it must huve been on the same day with the miracle at Peter ' s house *
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^ On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel NarrtUtvet . 4 &&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/21/
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