TABLE OF THE HARMONY OF THE FOUR GOSPELS. N.B.-In the following Table, where all the references under a given section are printed in thick type, as under "Two Genealogies," it is to be understood that some special difficulty besets the harmony. Where one or more references under a given section are in thin, and one or more in thick type, it is to be understood that the former are given as in their proper place, and that it is more or less doubtful whether the latter are to be considered as parallel narratives or not. It must always be remembered that the sacred writers have not so treated their subject that the construction of a complete Harmony is possible for us. Sending forth of the Twelve Herod's opinion of Jesus Death of John the Baptist Approach of Passover (3rd) Feeding of the five thousand Walking on the sea ix. 1-6 .. ix. 7-9 vi. 4 .. .. Miracles in Gennesaret vi. 16-21 .. vi. 22-65 The Passion foretold The Transfiguration .. The Passion again foretold.. ix. 37-42 .. Fish caught for the tribute ix. 43-45 .. The little child One casting out devils .. ix. 49, 50 xvii. 2 Χ. vi. 7-13 xiv. 1, 2 vi. 14-16 xiv. 3-12 vi. 17-29 xiv. 13-21 vi. 30-44 xiv. 22-33 vi. 45-52 xiv. 34-36 vi. 53-56 XV. 1-20 vii. 1-23 XV. 21-28 XV. 29-31 XV. 32-39 xvi. 1-4 vii. 24-30 vii. 31-37 viii. 1-9 viii. 10-13 xvi. 5-12 viii. 14-21 viii. 22-26 xvi. 13-19 viii. 27-29 xvi. 20-28 viii. 30-ix. 1 xvii. 1-9 ix. 2-10 xvii. 10-13 ix. 11-13 xvii. 14-21 ix. 14-29 xvii. 22, 23 ix. 30-32 xvii. 24-27 xviii. 1-5 ix. 33-37 xviii. 6-9 ix. 38-41 ix. 42-48 xviii. 10-14 xviii. 15-17 xviii. 18-20 xviii. 21-35 ix. 49, 50 viii. 19-22 ix. 52-56 The Seventy disciples X. 1-16 Discussions at Feast of Tabernacles vii. 11-53 Woman taken in adultery viii. 1-11 .. The man born blind Dispute with the Pharisees.. .. .. The good Shepherd Χ. 1-21 .. .. The return of the Seventy THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW. CHAPTER I. 1 The genealogy of Christ from Abraham to Joseph. 18 He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, and born of the Virgin Mary when she was espoused to Joseph. The angel satisfieth the misdeeming thoughts of Joseph, and interpreteth the names of Christ. CHAP. 1.-1-18. THE GENEALOGY. 1. The book of the generation.] This expression has been variously interpreted: (1) as limited to the genealogical table; (2) as extending to the history of the birth and childhood of Jesus; (3) as embracing the whole Gospel, and meaning the history of the life of Jesus. The exact expression occurs in two places in the LXX, Gen. ii. 4, V. 1. In the former place, and perhaps in the latter also, it means the history of the creation, and so far confirms (2). The plural, generations, is often used of a genealogical table, but generally with reference to the ancestor, not to the descendant. Thus the "generation of Shem" means the table of the posterity descended from Shem. The authorities cited in support of the third interpretation are doubt ful; and the choice seems to lie between the first and second. But whichever of these interpretations may be adopted, there can be little doubt that the catalogue which follows is taken from an actual genealogical table, such as are known to have been kept among the Jews, both as public and as private records, until the destruction of Jerusalem. (See Lightfoot's Exerc. on this place, and compare 1 Chron. ix. 1; 2 Chron. xii. 15, xxxi. 16; Ezra ii. 59-62, viii. 1; Neh. vii. 5, 64, xii. 23.) The existence of such tables, by which any forgery could be easily detected, sufficiently refutes the theory of Strauss that the genealogies were invented by the Evangelists to make out a royal descent for our Lord. The untenability of this theory is shown at length in Dr. Mill's 'Observations,' part II. chap. ii. The name Messiah was sometimes used to denote a priest (Levit. iv. 3, vi. 22; Numb. iii. 3), afterwards more frequently a king New Test. VOL. I. (1 Sam. xvi. 6, xxiv. 6, xxvi. 11, 16, 23; of Jesus Christ.] Both the sacred names the son of David, the son of Abraham.] In these words is manifested the purpose of the first Evangelist, to portray the Lord as the Messiah of the Jews, in whom were fulfilled the promises made to Abraham and David. This is one of the evidences that St. Matthew's Gospel was written in the first instance for Jewish Christians. 2. Abraham begat Isaac.] The first part of St. Matthew with St. Luke, and of both B d Gen. 29. 35. |