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    Messiah's kingdom , and to commence that series of wonderful miracles , and public teaching , which we denominate his Public Preaching in Galilee . *

    Part IV . Christ ' s Public Preaching in Galilee , as Jar as the Mission of the Twelve , shortly before the Feast of Dedication . This Part occupies from the 12 th verse of the ivth chapter of Matthew , to the end of the xth . —Immediately on returning to Galilee our Lord called Peter , Andrew , James , and John , to be regular attendants on his ministry ; and on the ensuing Sabbath cured a demoniac in the synagogue at Capernaum , healed the mother of Peter ' s wife , ( see p . 453 , ) and wrought many other miracles . The next , day , after retiring to a solitary spot to hold communion with God , he commenced his first progress through Galilee , that is , Galilee Inferior—a very populous district , but not larger than Monmouthshire . During this progress the miracles of our Lord were

    peculiarly numerous and striking ; and the immediate effect was to draw round him a large concourse of those who were eagerly expecting the approach of the Messiah . The absence of Herod , the return of the people from the Tabernacles , the completion of the husbandman ' s labours , and the settled mildness of the weather , must all have contributed to promote

    the publicity of our Lord's progress ; but his inestimable discourse at the close of it must have disappointed those who followed him from merely worldly motives ; and embarrassed the better disposed , whose notions of the Messiah ' s kingdom were founded on a literal interpretation of the splendid predictions of their ancient prophets . After delivering the Sermon on the Mount , Jesus healed a leper : and , on entering into Capernaum , cured the centurion's servant .

    If the true reading in Luke vii . 11 , is ev t $ eSrjq ( sc . ypep ?) , then our Lord went the next day to Nain , in the south-western part of Galilee , about twenty miles from Capernaum . If Luke wrote ev rep fi £ * K > ^ order , in the course of events , still , as there is no improbability in the present situation of the fact , our subsidiary principle ( p . 453 ) would lead us to arrange it here . St . Mark informs us ( ch . i . 45 ) that , after the cure of the leper , pur

    Lord was for some time absent from CaDernaum , in the more retired parts Lord was for some time absent from Capernaum , in the more retired parts of the country . A few days after , in the evening , he crossed the southern part of the Lake . It was at this time that he stilled the storm , and , on landing in the region of Gadara , healed the demoniacs , and caused their phrensy to take possession of the herd of swine . On his return to

    Caper-• By the expression * ' these three years , " iu Luke xiii . 7 , our Lord is usually supposed to denote the * ' three years" of his ministry . If it were the fact that hia ministry lasted three years , this reference would be natural : but it may with great propriety refer to the three great festivals , at each of which our Lord proposed his claims to the Jews at Jerusalem .

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    On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives . 617

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 617, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/41/