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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1863. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... thied part. of christ''S works and discourses. particularly in galilee. Matth. iv. 12--xviii. 35; Mask i. 14--Lr. 50; Luke iv. 14--ix 50. SS 1. Jesus Appears As A Teacher. (Matth. iv. 12-17; Mark i. 14, 15; Luke iv. 14, 15.) Ver. 12.--Were we not accurately instructed by the accounts of the Evangelist John as to the many events which intervened between the public appearance of Jesus and the imprisonment of John (see John iii. 24), we should conclude from Matth. iv. 12, and Mark i. 14, that the incarceration followed close upon the temptation of Jesus. This fact confirms the view detailed above (Introduction, SS 7), that in this part of the Gospel-history, a chronological arrangement of the individual events is impracticable, since it is evidently by accident only that a comparison of John''s narrative enables us to demonstrate, that the events thus connected in the narrative are separated in point of time.0 For even though Luke does not mention John in this place (see, however, Luke iii. 19, 20), yet he begins his narrative (iv. 15) with the general statement, that Jesus taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all; by which this section is deprived of its chronological character. Matthew (iv. 23) applies similar general formulas, and thus likewise renounces beforehand all pretensions to an exact chronological arrangement of the several events. What portion of the accounts of the first three Evangelists can with probability be assigned to the early period of Christ''s public ministry, can be determined only by the help of the Gospel of John. The references to place are as indefi That this does not warrant any conclusion unfavorable to Matthew as ap author, is Hermann Olshausen, Books, Religion and Spirituality, Biblical Commentary On The New Testament (volume 1) Books>Religion and Spirituality <