Reasons for detaching Mark ix. 33—the end, or Luke ix. On the supplementary relation of John vii-xi. 54. to the three first Connection of this Dissertation with Dissertation VIII. Critical adaptation of St. John's Gospel to the rest The last circuit of our Lord began from Capernaum Nature of the sin against the Holy Ghost On the notices of time supplied by Luke xii. Practical ill consequences of misplacing this chapter Times of the rainy and dry seasons in Judæa; and by what natural phenomena they were each ushered in . ib. HARMONY OF THE GOSPELS. PRELIMINARY DISSERTATIONS. DISSERTATION I. On the prophecy of the Seventy weeks, and the second part of the chronology of the Acts of the Apostles. IT may not, perhaps, be sufficient to have shewn that the first twelve chapters of the Acts, with respect to the times and the periods which they embrace, require to be distributed in a certain manner, unless it can be further demonstrated that the sequel and residue of the history admit of this distribution. For the sake, therefore, of establishing this fact, as well as because the purpose, which I have in view by it, is not altogether foreign to the proper business of a Gospel Harmony, I shall devote the present Dissertation to the remainder of the Acts, from the thirteenth chapter inclusively, to its close; in the course of which I shall necessarily have occasion to consider also the chronology of the Epistles of St. Paul. The notices of time, or such other indications as might serve to ascertain the chronology of the Acts, are interspersed in the body of the history, and withal of so peculiar a nature, as to render it much easier and much safer, to begin by tracing the course of events from a certain fixed point backwards, than from any certain point forwards. Two such points, each of them within the compass of the time which remains to be investigated, are capable of being determined; and as they may be determined independently |