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    that he wrought the miracle , it excited the persecuting spirit of the Pharisees , who now sought , even in Galilee , £ o take away his life ; and it may not unreasonably be supposed that this was in part owing to the known determination of the Sanhedrim ( John xi . 47—53 ) to put him to death . Our Lord then went to the neighbourhood of the Lake , ( where he could easily

    get into Philip ' s dominions , ) accompanied by great numbers of those who needed and received his benevolent aid . At this time he delivered those discourses and parables which are recorded in Matt . xii . 22 , xiii . 52 ; dining the same day ( Luke xi . 37 ) at a Pharisee's house ; and , about the beginning of March , went into the interior of Galilee , and visited Nazareth .

    By this time the death of the Baptist must have been generally known ; and , not improbably , it was the immediate cause of the return of those Apostles who had not yet rejoined our Lord . We infer that Matthew had previously rejoined him , from his full record of the discourses and parables recorded in the above portion of his Gospeh

    Part VI . . From the Return of the Twelve , followed by the Miracle of the Five Tiiousand , to the termination of our JLord * s Ministry in Galilee .

    Herod returned to Galilee soon after his defeat by Aretas , the father of the wife whom he had divorced ; which probabl y occurred shortly after John was beheaded at Machaerus , on the north of trie Dead Sea . Hearing ( as it appears for the first time ) of Jesus , he was very desirous to see him ; but our Lord knew the crafty cruelty of his disposition ; and , from this period , spent most of his time , till his last journey to Jerusalem , in the dominions of Philip , east of the Jordan , and in Galilee Superior , at a distance from Herod ' s court at Tiberias , and where he could easily fly beyond his jurisdiction . It appears , too , that he was constantly moving from place to place . *

    On the return ot the Apostles , the multitudes beginning to crowd around him , Jesus went across the Lake , to a desert near Bethsaida in Philip ' s dominions . There he wrought the signal miracle which shewed what powers he had at his command , and by which he could have attained any of the objects of human ambition . In the succeeding night he followed his disciples as they were crossing the Lake , by walking on the sea ; and the next day delivered in the synagogue at Capernaum the discourse which proved to many the test of faithfulness . This is recorded by John alone in ch . vi . : "f * but Matthew and Mark have recorded another discourse , (

    pro-* The narratives of this part are in Matt , xiv . I—xix . 1 ; Mark vi . 14—x . 1 ; Luke ix . 7—56 ; John vi . 1—vii . 1 . f Respecting the position of this chapter , and the reasons for believing that the miracle of the Five Thousand was wrought near the last Passover , the reader is referred to what has been stated in preceding articles , pp . 172 , 305 , &c . 4

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    € 20 On the Chronology and Arrangement of the Gospel Narratives .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1831, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2601/page/44/