s within the temple enclosure, in recognition of a
tradition that the porch covered and included a portion of the original
wall belonging to the Temple of Solomon. See _The House of the Lord_,
pp. 55-57.

3. The Oneness of Christ and the Father.--The revised version gives for
John 10:30: "I and the Father are one" instead of "I and my Father are
one." By "the Father" the Jews rightly understood the Eternal Father,
God. In the original Greek "one" appears in the neuter gender, and
therefore expresses oneness in attributes, power, or purpose, and not a
oneness of personality which would have required the masculine form. For
treatment of the unity of the Godhead, and the separate personality of
each Member, see _Articles of Faith_, ii, 20-24.

4. The Place of our Lord's Retirement.--Jesus went "beyond Jordan into
the place where John at first baptized" (John 10:40). This was probably
Bethabara (1:28), which is called Bethany in some of the earliest
manuscripts and is so designated in the latest revised version. Care
must be taken not to confuse this Perean Bethany with the Bethany in
Judea, the home of Martha and Mary, which was within two miles of
Jerusalem.

5. Lazarus in the Tomb Four Days.--On the very probable assumption that
the journey from Bethany in Judea to the place where Jesus was, in
Perea, would require one day, Lazarus must have died on the day of the
messenger's departure; for this day and the two days that elapsed before
Jesus started toward Judea, and the day required for the return, would
no more than cover the four days specified. It was and still is the
custom in Palestine as in other oriental countries to bury on the day of
death.

It was the popular belief that on the fourth day after death the spirit
had finally departed from the vicinity of the corpse, and that
thereafter decomposition proceeded unhindered. This may explain Martha's
impulsive though gentle objection to having the tomb of her brother
opened four days after his death (John 11:39). It is possible that the
consent of the next of kin was required for the lawful opening of a
grave. Both Martha and Mary were present, and in the presence of many
witnesses assented to the opening of the tomb in which their brother
lay.

6. Jesus Groaned in Spirit.--The marginal readings for "he groaned in
the spirit" (John 11:33) and "again groaning in himself" (v. 38), as
given in the revised version, are "was moved with indignation in the
spirit" a