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656 On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives ,
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claims . When arrived at the Temple , he healed many blind and lame persons ; and it is not improbable that , on this first day , occurred that solemn scene which followed the application of the Gentile proselytes . ( John xii . 20—26 . ) After this , without making further stay in the Temple , he withdrew with the Twelve to Bethany , where he passed the succeeding nights till the Thursday .
Early on the day following his public entry—say on the Tuesday—he devoted the barren fig-tree ; and on arriving at the Temple , with comparatively few attendants , he drove out those who were trafficking there . This excited the anger of the Chief Priests and their adherents ; and they sought to destroy him ; but the people listened , with admiration , to his instructions ; and the chief men found no means of executing their purposes . On the second morning after his public entry—that is , probably , on the Wednesday—as he was returning to Jerusalem , the disciples observed that . the fig-tree had been withered from the roots . The circumstances of the day before seem to have aroused the various enemies of our Lord ; and from his entrance into the Temple , till he left it , no more to return , every effort
was made to harass and to ensnare him . First , a body of the Sanhedrim came and demanded his authority for the measures he had taken ; which led him to deliver several parables fitted to shew to them , and to the people , their guilt and their danger . Next , a party of the Herodians , sent by the Pharisees with some of their own disciples , put to him the question respecting the Roman tribute-money . When their crafty and malicious designs had been defeated , the Sadducees came to propose their paradox concerning the resurrection , by which , probably , they had often perplexed
their opponents , the Scribes , some of whom ( Luke xx . 39 ) , as it appears , were greatly pleased with our Lord's repl y * Lastly , one of the Scribes ( Mark xii . 28—34 ) proposed that inquiry by which the Pharisees so much confounded the plain dictates of conscience— " Which is the great commandment of the Law : " and this led our Lord to give the most
unequivocal sanction to that fundamental declaration of the Jewish legislator , respecting the Oneness and Supremacy of Jehovah , and the exclusive direction to him otthe highest affections of the heart , which must one day be the common faith and directory of the Christian world , as it still is of the Jews wherever they are found , both in their public and in their private worship . Our Lord then himself proposed a question to the Pharisees
respecting the superiority of the Messiah to David , his progenitor by natural descent , which confounded and silenced them . Perhaps it was at this interval that , while sitting opposite the Treasury , near the entrance into the Inner Court of the Temple , the Divine Teacher uttered that most encouraging expression respecting the Widow ' s Mite ; and made , still more publicly , the solemn declaration as to the authority of , his words , because enjoined by the Father who sent him , which is recorded at the end of the xtith chapter of St . John . Soon after , he must have delivered those awful
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1831, page 656, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2602/page/4/
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