flesh, to go through these appointed rites and purifications which
belonged to that flesh. There is no more strangeness in His having been
baptized by John, than in His keeping the Passover. The one rite, as the
other, belonged to sinners, and among the transgressors He was
numbered."--ALFORD, _Greek Testament_, Note on Matt. iii. 13-17.

[18:4] See Greswell's "Dissertations upon an Harmony of the Gospels,"
vol. i. p. 362, 363. John probably commenced his ministry about the
feast of Tabernacles, A.D. 27.

[18:5] See Josephus, "Antiq." xviii, 5, Sec. 2.

[19:1] Matt. iv. 23.

[19:2] Matt. iv. 24, 25.

[19:3] Isaiah xlv. 15.

[19:4] 1 Kings viii. 10-12.

[19:5] John v. 13, vi. 15, viii. 59, xii. 36; Mark i. 45, vii. 24.

[19:6] Mark ii. 1, 2; Matt. xiv. 13, 14, 21, xv. 32, 38, 39.

[20:1] Matt. iv. 13. Hence it is said to have been "exalted unto heaven"
in the way of privilege. Matt. xi. 23; Luke x. 15. It was the residence
as well of Peter and Andrew (Matt. xvii. 24), as of James, John (Mark i.
21, 29), and Matthew (Mark ii. 1, 14, 15), and there also dwelt the
nobleman whose son was healed by our Lord (John iv. 46). It was on the
borders of the Sea of Galilee, so that by crossing the water He could at
once reach the territory of another potentate, and withdraw Himself from
the multitudes drawn together by the fame of His miracles. See Milman's
"History of Christianity," i. 188.

[21:1] John i. 46.

[22:1] Luke xxiv. 32.

[22:2] Matt. vii. 29.

[23:1] According to Mr Greswell our Lord adopted this method of teaching
about eighteen months after the commencement of His ministry, and the
Parable of the Sower was the first delivered. "Exposition of the
Parables," Vol. i. p. 2.

[23:2] Isa. xxxv. 5, 6.

[23:3] See John v. 13, ix. 1, 6, 25, 36.

[23:4] Mark ii. 6, 7, 10, 11, iii. 5, 22.

[24:1] John vi. 9.

[24:2] Matt. xiv. 24, 25.

[24:3] Mark iv. 39; Matt. viii. 26, 27.

[24:4] John ix. 16.

[24:5] Matt. xxi. 19. Neander has shown that this was a typical action
pointing to the rejection of the Jews. See his "Life of Christ." Bohn's
Edition.

[24:6] John ii. 9.

[24:7] Matt. ix. 28, 29; Mark vi. 5, ix. 23, 24.

[25:1] John viii. 12.

[26:1] Several of the early fathers imagined that it continued only a
year. Some of them, such as Clemens Alexandrinus, drew this conclusion
from Isaiah lxi. 1, "To preach _the acceptable year_ of the Lord." See
Kaye's "Clement of Alexandria," p. 347.

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