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CH. V.-CHRONOLOGICAL Table of the NEW

TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES.

THE New Testament was originally written in the Greek language: but concerning the exact time wher each of the several books was written, it is now difficult to determine; consequently there is some little difference of opinion among learned commentators, in reference to some of them. The following table has been compiled from the most celebrated writers on the subject.

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in Greek........ Ditto... Ditto....... Gentile Christians.... 60 1 Thessalonians ... Paul ... Corinth..... Ditto

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Romans

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Ditto Macedonia .. Ditto

James..

Judea

Mark... Rome
Ditto

Panl...

Ditto... Ditto.

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Ditto.

Ditto... Ditto

Ditto... Italy.

Luke, gospel of.... Luke... Greece...

Acts

1 Timothy Titus.

1 Peter

Jude

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Paul Macedonia.. Timothy
Ditto... Ditto......

Titus

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Philemon

2 Peter..

2 Timothy

1 John, epistle of... John ... Ephesus .... General..

3 John.

2 John, do...... Ditto... Ditto....... The Elect Lady.
do...... Ditto... Ditto....... Gaius...
Ditto... Patmos..... General
John. gospel of..... Ditto... Ephesus Ditto

Revelation.

CH. VI.-THE MIRACLES OF CHRIST.

It is evident from the evangelical narratives, that only a very small number of the miracles of our divine Lord have been circumstantially mentioned by the sacred

Peter...

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writers. The following, therefore, is only a list of the more particularly noted miracles of Christ.

MIRACLES.

Water turned into wine....

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Cana...... John ii. 1-11. iv. 46-54.

The Capernaum nobleman's son cured.... Ditto..
Surprising draught of fishes.....
Demoniac cured

Peter's mother-in-law healed
Leper healed..

Centurion's servant healed.

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Widow's son raised from the dead

Tempest calmed.......

Demoniacs of Gadara cured..

S. of Galilee Luke v. 1-11.
Capernaum Mark i. 22-28.
Ditto......
Ditto......

Ditto......

30-31. 40-45.

Matt. viii. 5-13.

Nain.. Luke vii. 11-17.

S. of Galilee Matt. viii, 23-27.

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Ditto.....

28-34.

ix. 1-8.

18-26.

27-31.

Dumb demoniac cured...

32, 33.

Woman diseased with issue of blood healed Ditto...... Luke viii. 43-48. Diseased cripple at Bethesda cured ...... Jerusalem. John v. 1-9.

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CH. VII.-RECORDED PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST.

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70 CH. VIII. REMARKABLE DISCOURSES OF CHRIST.

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CH. VIII.-REMARKABLE DISCOURSES OF CHRIST.

DISCOURSES.

Conversation with Nicodemus..

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Jerusalem. John iii, 1-21.

the Samaritan woman. Sychar.... iv. 1-42.

Discourse in the synagogue
Sermon on the mount.

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Nazareth.. Luke iv. 16-31.
Ditto...... Matt. v. vi. vii.

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Ordination charge to the apostles
Denunciations against Chorazin..
Discourse concerning healing the infirm
man at Bethesda.

Discourse concerning his disciples pluck-
ing ears of corn on the sabbath

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Jerusalem. John v.

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Refutation of the charge, of his working Capernaum miracles by the agency of Beelzebub. )

Discourse on the bread of life....

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concerning internal purity
against giving or taking of-

fence and forgiving of injuries.

Matt. xii. 1-8.

22-37.

Ditto...... John vi.
Ditto...... Matt. xv. 1-20.

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at the feast of tabernacles...... Jerusalem. John vii.
on occasion of the adulteress

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Discourse concerning the sufferings of
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Denunciations against the pharisees
Predictions concerning the destruction of
Jerusalem..

Discourse of consolation.

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on the way to Gethsemane.....
with his disciples before his

ascension

Ditto...... John xiv.-xvi.
Ditto...... Matt. xxvi. 31-36.

Ditto...... -xxviii. 16-20,

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CH. IX.-JEWISH SECTS.

On the restoration of the Jewish church, after the Babylonish captivity, there arose two parties among them, who manifested a regard for religion. One of them adhered to the scriptures only, rejecting all human traditions. Professing to observe the whole law they assumed the name Zadikim, the righteous. From these proceeded the Samaritans and the Sadducees. The other party, besides the inspired scriptures, superadded the traditions of the elders; and from a supposed superior degree of sanctity were called Chasidim, the pious. From these arose the Pharisees and Essenes.

1. The Samaritans were originally the idolatrous successors of the ten tribes, part of whom the king of Assyria sent to unite with the scattered few in repeopling Samaria and the land of Israel. At first, as a punishment for their idolatry, they were plagued with lions; but on this being reported to the king, a priest was sent from among the captives, to instruct them in the law of God. So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence," 2 Kings xvii. 24-33.

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Afterwards they became partially reformed, admitted the writings of Moses, built a temple on mount Gerizim, and worshipped the God of Israel. From the conversation of the woman of Sychar, we learn that even the more corrupt class had some knowledge of the Messiah, and expected his appearance, John iv. 25.

2. The Sadducees were a kind of deists. They received their appellation from Sadoc their founder, who lived B. C. 280 years. At first they rejected only the traditions of the elders, as being destitute of divine authority, but afterwards they adopted many impious notions like those of Epicurus, a heathen philosopher, and rejected the whole of the sacred writings except the five books of Moses. They denied the resurrection of the

dead, the existence of angels, and the immortality of the soul. They admitted the being and providence of Almighty God; but they rejected the doctrine of rewards and punishments in a future state. Josephus, the Jewish historian, observes, "Whenever they sat in judgment upon criminals, they always were for the severest sentence against them." He also says, "Their number was the fewest of all the sects of the Jews: but they were only those of the best quality, and of the greatest riches among them."

3. The Pharisees were the principal sect among the Jews; and though they were haughty despisers of the common people, the vulgar entertained such an opinion of their sanctity, that it became a common notion among them, that if only two persons were received into heaven one of them must be a pharisee. The greater part of the doctors of the law and the scribes were of this party. They esteemed the traditions of the wise men as of nearly equal authority with the word of God, and generally gave them the preference! They were intolerably proud of their religious attainments; supposing themselves to merit the divine favour by their duties and observances. On these accounts they were justly characterised by our Lord as grossly hypocritical, and at a greater distance from the kingdom of God than even publicans and harlots.

4. The Essenes were a rigid sect of the Jews, a branch of the pharisees; but they entered upon a more mortified way of living, and were probably more free from hypocrisy. Though our Saviour often censured the other sects, we have no account of his mentioning them; nor are they noticed specifically by the writers of the New Testament. This has been accounted for by their living in solitary places, somewhat in the manner of the Romish monks, and from their seldom coming to the temple or into public assemblies. Many suppose that John the Baptist lived among them. They believed in a future state of happiness, but doubted of the resurrection. They mostly disallowed marriage, adopting the children of the poor to train up in their principles.

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