Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Words of the Lord Jesus, Vol. 4: Translated From the Second Revised and Enlarged German Edition We have already, in Vol. ii., given our opinion upon the harmonistic relation of the entire section, ch. xi. 17-36, to Matt. xii. 25-45; expressing upon this latter passage our conviction that they record one and the same discourse, founded upon one and the same incident - whether the point of time, not definitely marked in either of the three Evangelists, be determined by St Matthew or by St Luke. Adhering, however, to our firm principle, we give the preference to St Matthew's arrangement of our Lord's discourses; when, therefore, St Luke interrupts the general discourse, in vers. 27, 28, by an interjected word, the conclusion of which he had already given us before, we must necessarily assume that this apostrophe of the woman, and our Lord's answer, had occurred in the meantime. But, whether in the midst of the discourse itself (St Matthew's extract gives us no appropiate point of connection for it) or at its close, parallel with what is related in Matt. xii. 46-50, Mar. iii. 31-35, and what St Luke himself has already recorded inch. viii. 19-21 - who shall determine? We manifestly see that the otherwise so well-informed Luke is indistinct in the chronology of these things generally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.