" [26:1] I confess that I find it
somewhat difficult to distinguish between those out of which I am said
to "make capital" and those which Dr. Lightfoot characterises as "their
main arguments," if I am to judge by the "samples" of them which he
gives me. For instance, [26:2] he asks why, when asserting that the
Synoptics clearly represent the ministry of Jesus as having been limited
to a single year, and his preaching as confined to Galilee and
Jerusalem, whilst the fourth Gospel distributes the teaching of Jesus
between Galilee, Samaria, and Jerusalem, makes it extend over three
years, and refers to three passovers spent by Jesus at Jerusalem:
"Why then," he asks,
"does he not add that 'apologetic' writers refer to such passages as
Matt. xiii. 37 (comp. Luke xiii. 34), 'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem ...
_how often_ would I have gathered thy children together'? Here the
expression 'how often,' it is contended, obliges us to postulate
other visits, probably several visits, to Jerusalem, which are not
recorded in the Synoptic Gospels themselves. And it may be suggested
also that the twice-repeated notice of time in the context of St.
Luke, 'I do cures _to-day and to-morrow, and the third day_ I shall
be perfected,' 'I must walk _to-day and to-morrow and the day
following_,' points to the very duration of our Lord's ministry, as
indicated by the fourth Gospel.
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