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* Tbe Pharisees manifestjuqg ^ displeasure the increasing . success of our Lord , he left Judsea ; and , in m& ^ y to Galilee , had the very important conversation with the Samaritatt WoHiaiji , at Sychar . After remaining there two days , he proceeded to Ca £ ta ; and soon after his arriva-1 , on the application of a nobieman—probabiy Chuza , Herod's steward—lie healed his son who was lying sick at Capernauou These facts are recorded by John alone , ch . iv .
Soon after this , b £ went to Jerusalem to another festival , which must have been the Pentecost : 9 ^ there , ' after heajing the infirm man at the Pool of Bethesda , he delivered a solemn address to the Jews , probably before tbe Sanhedrim , distinctly avowing his appointment to be the Judge of mankind ; and appealing to the testimony of God himself to the truth of his claims . This important part of oar Lord ' s Ministry is recorded by John alone ; in ch . v .
From this time till the approach of the Feast of Tabernacles , we have a © particular record of our Lord ' s transactions , except , probably , that of his visit to Nazareth , in Luke iv . 14— -30 . We may reasonably conclude that he taught in the synagogues of Galilee , and also , without any peculiar publicity , wrought miracles , as the providence of God presented suitable opportunities .
When the reader recollects that the interval of which we speak , was nearly four months—a large portion of our Lord's whole Ministry—he may expect us to shew the grounds of the arrangement which requires so long an
emission of it in some ancient testimonies is more easily accounted for tban the introduction of it into any , ) this also opposes the solution ; whether the meaning of the woxcl be the first sabbath after the second day of the Passover , or > as we think decidedly preferable , the first sabbath of the second month . " The portion of Mark and Lnke , rn which the facts are recorded , we regard as founded on a common document ; and the previous facts have . the general connexion arising from the manifestations of the captious spirit of our Lord ' s enemies . This was probably tbe original cause of the connexion between the two occurrences . 8 t . Luke left them together , as he found them : but he gives specific information as to the date of one ; and states that the other occurred " on another sabbath . " None of the first three Gospels gives any account ( and piobably the Authors had no knowledge ) of that part of our Lord ' s history , to which the secvnd-Mrsi sabbath
must relate ; and each naturally gives it in connexion with a fact with which , in some common record , it had been associated . That fact , Matthew places shortly before the general return of " the Apostles . The xith chapter contains a series of occurrences which closely followed their mission . In the succeeding interval , before the miracle in ch . xii . 9 , &c , our Lord had beeu absent for two or three mouths , in Jerusalem , Perea , Judea again , and Ephraim ; and the Evangelist introduces the new series of events with an expression which , in his phraseology , more marks the introduction of a new series of events , than any specification of
time . This may appear from comparing with that in the present passage , the expression iu ch . iii . 1 , " in those dayi , " and ch . xiv . 1 , " at that time . * ' A similar mode of expression occurs in Exod . ii . 11 . —It is , however , clear , that Matthew could not have referred the Walk through the Cornfields to a period before our Lord's Public Ministry in Galilee ; and we can only say , that , finding it with the record of an event which occurred shortly before the return of the Apostles , he left it there . —That , in some years and seasons , the grain would be sufficiently ripe
some time before the Passover for such an occurrence to have taken place there , may prevent us from supposing that St . Matthew could not have so left it in connexion with the miracle which he must have known to have occurred not very long before the Passover . And we must not judge of these things by our precision in dates , derived from the uniform commencement of years , and from the possession of almanacs , &c . We have not in Matthew a single specific date , till we reach tbe last Passover .
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at 466 On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel AfctrrWiv& m f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 456, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/24/
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