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our Lord , on being accosted by the Jewish Doctor , delivered the parable of the Good Samaritan ; and that he visited Martha and Mary . ( Luke x « 25 —42 . ) They resided , there is no room for reasonable doubt , * at Bethany , on the eastern side of the Mount of Olives ; , and as it is certain that our Lord was at Jerusalem at the Feast of Dedication , we presume that his visit to Bethany preceded his short visit at Jerusalem at that time . * j * Again the Jews sought to kill him ; but he immediately withdrew from their jurisdiction , and went into the Perea , residing principally at Bethabara , or Bethany
east of the Jordan . ( John x . 22—42 . ) In that region he appears to have spent the whole of December , and the greater part of January ; and during bis abode there , probably delivered several of those discourses and parables which are recorded by St . Luke in his Gnomology . ( See pp . 382—384 . ) While there , too , we suppose that the Seventy rejoined him , after having executed their ministry in the Perea ; either in the northern part of Herod's portion , or in the southern part of that portion which belonged to Philipprobably in both . Some also of the Apostles rejoined him while in the Perea ; as appears from the record of the resurrection of Lazarus . At the close of the January preceding his crucifixion , our Lord , knowing
that Lazarus was dead , set out again for Bethany , near Jerusalem ; and after having restored his friend to life , he retired , with those of his disciples who had attended him , to the neighbourhood of Ephraim . ( John xi . 1 — 54 . ) There was a town of this name about eight miles north of Jerusalem ; but as there was another , further north , in Samaria , out of the jurisdiction of the Jews , it seems most probable that it was to this our Lord retired .
Our Lord ' s visit to Jerusalem at the Dedication , his sojourn in the Perea , his return to the house of Martha , and his retirement at Ephraim , all took place , we conclude , between the occurrences recorded in the xith chapter of Matthew , and those in the xiith ( the Walk through the Corn-field excepted ) . At the period of the miracle of the Withered Hand , our Lord began his last abode in Galilee ; and since , from some unknown cause , this was associated with the Walk through the Corn-fields , St . Matthew begins the new portion with the narrative of the latter . J Wherever it was
* Mr . Greswell thiuks it certain that Martha and Mary resided in Galilee : there appears to be no foundation for the opinion , except his own theories ; and the narrative of St . John decidedly opposes it . - \* According to our calculation of the date of the first Passover , this visit of our Lord at Jerusalem must have been near the end of November . John , however , ( ch . x . 22 , ) says that it was winter , %£ i ^ & > v vjv . The short winter of Palestine was
about the end of December ; but at the end of November there was sometimes stormy weather ; and this is all which % c */ w . < wv necessarily implies . It seems to assign the reason why our Lord walked in Solomon ' s Portico , which was on the east side of the Temple court . X On the position of this narrative , we have already offered some remarks in the note in pp . 455 , 456 .
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On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives . 619
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 619, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/43/
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