§150. CHRIST'S FINAL APPEARANCE, AND HIS ASCENSION.

MARK 16:19, 20.

19 So then the Lord Jesus, after
he had spoken unto them, was re-
ceived up into heaven, and sat down

at the right hand of God. 20 And
they went forth, and preached every-
where, the Lord working with them,
and confirming the word by the
signs that followed. Amen.

§151. THE CONCLUSION OF JOHN'S
JOHN 20: 30, 31.

LUKE 24:44-53.

44 And he said unto them, These are my words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, how that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me. 45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures; 46 and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day; 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 Ye are witnesses of these things. 49 And behold, I send forth the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city, until ye be clothed with power from on high.

50 And he led them out until they were over against Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. 51 And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven. 52 And they 'worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53 and were continually in the temple, blessing God.

GOSPEL.

30 Many other signs therefore did Jesus in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book: 31 but these are written, that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye may have life in his name.

JOHN 21: 25.

25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that should be written.

1 Some ancient authorities read unto. Or, nations. Beginning from Jerusalem, ye are witnesses authorities omit and was carried up into heaven. Some ancient authorities omit worshipped him, and.

8 Some ancient

APPENDIX.

SAYINGS OF CHRIST

ASSIGNED BY THE EVANGELISTS TO MORE THAN ONE OCCASION.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE ANALYTICAL OUTLINE.

To the student of the gospels it is a matter of special interest to determine the historical situation of the sayings of Christ. This portion of his task, however, is complicated by the fact that many of these sayings are given by the different synoptic gospels in substantially the same form, but in entirely different historical situations. In a few instances the same passage even occurs more than once in the same gospel. In the present state of knowledge respecting the way in which our four gospels were produced it is impossible to determine with certainty in each case on which of two or more occasions a given saying was uttered, or whether on more than one occasion. In the construction of the harmony we have therefore in each instance placed this discourse material in the connection given to it in the gospel containing it. In no case have we detached a paragraph of Christ's sayings from the historical situation given it by the evangelist, or dissected what is given in the gospels as a discourse, in order to bring similar discourse material into the same section. In thus assigning more than one historical situation to similar or practically identical sayings, we by no means maintain that all of them were spoken more than once. We simply maintain that in the present state of New Testament criticism it is quite impossible to determine to which historical situation each of the parallel sayings belongs, and which of them were actually repeated on more than one occasion.

The following table is designed to exhibit the principal instances of this parallelism in the discourses of Christ. Under each section of the table the figures in boldface type designate passages which belong to the corresponding section of the harmony. The figures in lighter-face type designate passages which are assigned by the evangelists to a different historical occasion, yet are closely parallel in thought and language to the passages opposite which they stand in this table. In the case of parallel passages occurring in the same gospel we have placed the citations in the same column connected by a brace. Any passage cited in boldface type under a given section in the table will be found in the text of the corresponding section of the harmony, while the passages cited in lighter-face type will be found at the foot of the page under the same section. Every passage thus printed in the margin of the harmony appears also in its own proper section in the body of the text.

When a saying occurs at two distinctly different points in the same section, either by being repeated in the same account, or by being placed in different connections in the parallel accounts, cross-reference is made in the harmony from each passage to the other. The footnote in such a case, however, consists of a reference only, and does not include the text of the passage referred to. See, for example, pages 58 and 79. These cases do not appear in the table unless the passage is also repeated in a different section.

It will be observed that there are at least forty discourses of Christ, shorter or longer, which contain parallel matter of the kind above described. The list is not exhaustive, but may be considered approximately complete within its intended scope. A typical and interesting instance of discourse parallelism is found in the parables of The sheep gone astray, in section 81, and of The lost sheep, in section 102. Section 64, The mission of the Twelve, illustrates the wide distribution in the other gospels of matter which forms one discourse in Matthew. And, to add one more instance, the often quoted text: "He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it," occurs in slightly varied forms six times, and is assigned by the evangelists to four different historical situations.

This exhibit of the parallelism in the reports of Christ's sayings will be of service in the study of the teaching of Christ by showing those passages of his discourses which are assigned by the evangelists to more than one occasion, and some of which were doubtless often repeated during his ministry. It should be particularly observed that the list does not undertake to include all the sayings of Christ of which there is more than one report in the gospels, but only those which are assigned by the evangelists to more than one historical situation.