[3111] This is the only occasion on which they are designated as Apostles in the Gospel by St. Mark.
[3112] St. Matt. xi. 1.
[3113] Their mission seems to have been short, probably not more than two weeks or so. But it seems impossible, in consistency with the facts, to confine it to two days, as Bishop Ellicott proposes (Hist. Lect. p. 193).
[3114] St. Mark vi. 12, 13; St. Luke ix. 6.
[3115] St. Matt xiv. 12, 13; St. Mark vi. 30.
[3116] St. John vi. 1.
[3117] St. Mark vii. 24.
[3118] St. John iii. 22 to iv. 3.
[3119] Comp. chapter vii. of this Book. For the sake of clearness and connection, some points formerly referred to have had to be here repeated.
[3120] St. John ii. 13 to iii. 21.
[3121] St. John iii. 25 &c.
[3122] Comp. Sketches of Jewish Social Life,' pp. 152, 153.
[3123] These verses contain the reflections of the Evangelist, not the words of the Baptist, just as previously vv. 16 to 21 are no longer the words of Christ but those of St. John.
[3124] St. John iii. 16 to 21.
[3125] Comp. Caspari, Chronolog. Georgr. Einl. pp. 83-91.
[3126] Ænon may even have been in Peræa itself - in that case, on the eastern bank of the Jordan.
[3127] St. John iii. 24.
[3128] St. John vi. i.
[3129] Comp. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. p. 233. As to the name Tiberias, comp. p. 635, note 1.
[3130] St. Matt. xiv. 1.
[3131] Numb. xxxii. 36; Josh. xiii. 27.
[3132] Ant. xviii. 2. 1.
[3133] Jerus. Shev. 38 d.
[3134] Comp. the references in Böttger, Lex. zu Jos. p. 58.
[3135] See the description of the site in Tristram, Land of Moab, p. 348.
[3136] Ant. xviii. 5. 2.
[3137] St. Matt. xiv. 5.
[3138] St. Matt. xiv. 3, 4; St. Mark vi 17, 18.
[3139] Sot. 22 b.
[3140] St. John iv. 1, 2.
[3141] St. Luke xiii. 31-33.
[3142] Ant. xviii. 5. 2.
[3143] A little before that it seems belonged to Aretas. We know not, how it again passed into the hands of Antipas, if, indeed, it ever was fully ceded by him to the Arabs. Comp. Schürer, u.s. p. 239, and Wieseler, Chron. Syn. p. 244, Beitr, pp. 5, &c., whose positions are, however, not always quite reliable.
[3144] Gen. xiv. 5.
[3145] Jewish War i. 8. 5.
[3146] Here Bassus made his attack in the fast Jewish war (Jos. War vii. 6. 1-4).
[3147] Canon Tristram Land of Moab, pp. 255-265; comp. Baedeker (Socin) Palästina, p. 195 and, for the various passages in Josephus referring to Machærus, Böttger, u.s. pp. 165-167.
[3148] War vii. 6. 1, 2.
[3149] St. John iii. 26.
[3150] Thus viewed there is no contradiction, not even real variation, between St. Matt. ix. 14, St. Mark ii. 18, and St. Luke v. 33.
[3151] St. Matt. ix. 14-17 and parallels.
[3152] B. Mez. 85 a, 2 towards the end.
[3153] Altogether, Baba Mez, 84 a to 85 a contains a mixture of the strangest, grossest, and profanest absurdities.
[3154] Thus a three day's fast would be on the second, fifth, and again on the second day of the week.
[3155] Taan. 12 a; St. Luke xviii. 12.
[3156] Taan i. 4-7.
[3157] Comp. The Temple, its Ministry and Services,' pp. 296-298.
[3158] St. Mark ii. 18.
[3159] This is the real import of the original.
[3160] St. John iii. 29.
[3161] Ber. 6 b.
[3162] Yoma viii. 1.
[3163] Jer. Sukk. 53 a, near the middle.
[3164] {hebrew} Jer. Megill. 72 d 1.
[3165] And all bride-chambers were only within the portions of Benjamin' (the Tabernacle and the Temple). Hence Benjamin was called the host of the Lord.'
[3166] Strangely, the two designations are treated as identical in most Commentaries.
[3167] St. John iii. 29.
[3168] St. Matt. ix. 16, 17.