PLATE I.

FROM NAZARETH TO CAPERNAUM. §§ 12-19.

These five maps are arranged to show, by means of colored lines, the journeys of Jesus, and also to call attention to the places and order of time connected with prominent events of his life.

At Nazareth the birth of Jesus was announced. He was born at Bethlehem, carried into Egypt, and afterwards to Nazareth, where the years preceding his public ministry were spent. These first journeys are not indicated by lines.

As shown by the blue line, Jesus journeyed from his home at Nazareth, to the river Jordan, where John was baptizing (§ 15); thence, through the wilderness of Judea (Temptation, 16), to Jerusalem, and back to Jordan (§§ 17 and 18), where the first disciples were called.

As shown by the red line, Jesus went from Bethabara back to Galilee, where his first miracle was performed, at Cana (§19), and then made a brief stay at CAPERNAUM. Thus was completed his first circuit, of which the record is very concise. From this time CAPERNAUM is the starting-point of each circuit, as shown in succeeding plates.

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THE INTERWOVEN GOSPELS.

PERIOD I.

The Time of Preparation.

[From the Announcement of the Birth of John the Baptist to the Beginning of Christ's Public Ministry—a period of about thirtytwo years.]

John 1.

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1. Preface by John.*

IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word 2 was God. The same was in the beginning 3 with God. All things were made tl.rough

him; and without him 'was not anything 4 made that hath been made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in the darkness;

and the darkness apprehended it not. 6 There came a man, sent from God, whose 7 name was John. The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came that he 9 might bear witness of the light. There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the 10 world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the

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KEY.- Matthew, Mark, Luke, d John.

1 Or, was not anything made.

was life in him; and the life &c.

2 Or, overcame.

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That which hath been made

3 Or, The true light, which lighteth every man, was coming. Or, Every man as he cometh.

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The introductions to the several Gospels beautifully supplement each other. Luke narrates the events preceding Christ's advent; John declares his divine nature and pre-existence; Matthew (with Luke) gives his ancestral tables; while Mark, in a single sentence, leads at once to the proclamation of the Gospel. The order here adopted differs from most harmonists, who also differ widely among themselves. In these opening sections the clearest arrangement is best.