The Pulpit Commentary — John — Volume 1 — Section 438

lem leads many to look for the full ohrono- x. 22 ; x. 40) ; and that the fine.I departure logionl detail of thia Inst tra.nsnction. It from Galilee was with a gror,t convoy. oontu.ine, however, many inci<lcnts between Ewald o.nd Moy~r regard thi8 as a violent oh. Ix. 51 an,I xviii. 31, where the final attempt M harmonietic e.rran.,.ement of tho ovenls of the Ju.et u.pproaoh to Jerusalem detttils before us. To resume tlie narrative-- aro brought into chronological rolu.tions with Ver. 10.-But when his brethren were tho other three Gospels, which coult.! not gone up to the feast,' then went he alro up, u.11 hnvo been connected with the journey to not manifestly, but as it were in secret. Th o the Feast of Tnbernaclee. E<le1·sheim and emendation of the text is important, for it Weiss alike infer that, since Luke says draws attention to the fact that, while tho nothing of the Feabt of Tabernacles, he !JD.s brethren went up to the feast, he simply reokonod in this period the events apper- went up, towar,ls Jerusalem-n,,t, however, taining to the Perman ministry and the re- in the pilgrim-caravan, but as a quiet way· turn to the Feast of Dedication, as well as the farer, blessing lepers, comforting souls, pour- final determination to challenge the u.uthori: ing forth on a favoured few his tn1th, till ties at J eruse.lem, with hie e.ssertion of true he reached the certain village at the very Messiahship, and the Inst e.pproe.ch to Je- gates of Jerusalem. ,That a contrast there ruse.lem. Luke does not describe the route was between the first visit (eh. ii.), when he taktn, but implies on several occasions appeared suddenly in the temple, and cast Christ's growing determination to confront out the money-changers, or that when (eh. v.) Jerusalem; and also implies that he had he went to the" unnamed" feast as a pilgrim• visited it" often" (Luke xiii. 31-34), with The hostility has deepened; the " w.,rld" the purpose of gathering it under his gracious hates its Saviour, because he would save it sway and protection. There a1·e, moreover, from its sins, interpret it to itself, and offer a few incidents mentioned which synchro- epiritunl rather than temporal benecliction. nize with the journey to the l!'east of Taber- The phrase, "in secret," has led some of the nacles. He went through Samaria instead Tiibingcn school to suggest a. docetic view of by the frequented Pe1·rean route on the of the Person of Christ; but the suggcstiun other side of Jordan (Luke ix. 52). There is reckless and absurd. Moulton, who con- the Su.maritans refuse to reoeive him, because ceives that the lllli!sion of the seventy dis- his face was a.a though he would go to ciples preceded this e.dv1mt, says even thi,i Jerusalem, and the Boanerges are rebuked does not clash with the idea. of a vfrtnally for their Elijah-like desire. The incident secret and retired advance. of the cure of ten lepers, one of them a Vers.11-19.-(2) The controrersy amo,,g Samaritan, probably belongs to the ea.me "Jeu,s n COJ1cerni11.g ChNt-11i3 fi·rst discussion jou1·ney ; and, above e.11, the interesting with them, fragment of the visit to Me.rtha and Mary Ver. 11.-The J'ews therefore sought him at a certain village. This village may, as at the feast. The ruling and hostile powers, Edersheim suggests, havo been the retire- the unbelieving hierarchy, Caiaphas and hfa ment from which our Lord emerged in the party (eh. vi 41, 52; vers. 13, 15), because midst of the Fee.st of Tabcrnaoles. Many of his non-appearance in the Galilmnn cara- other of the murati ves belong to the closing van, went hither and thither, saying, Wb.era period of our Lord's life. The most ilifficult is he '1--J,,,ivos, "thnt notorious Person," event to harmonize with the suggestions of whose claims me.ddenetl us some months this passage of John and with the subsequent agone, o.nd whose deeds are being talked of hints of chronological arrangement, is the throughout the city, whom the Galilmnn• choice of the seventy disciples, which Weiss would have constrained to take up arms and regards as a kind of misapprehension, but crown: where ia he? Luther said that which Edersheim (loo oit., vol. ii. 135) believes their malice was so great that they forbore to have been one of the great events of this to name him. But we can hardly press tba journey to the Feast of Tabernacles. It i1«ivos so far as that. must be admitted that it is strangely incon- Ver. 12.-And there was much murmuring sistent with the journey which was con- among tha multitudes concerning him. This ducted as it were "in secret." It would vivid dramatic touch lifts n veil, an<l we seo be more ne.tU1·al to believe thnt it WCUI the eager excitement of those who fancied one of the incidents of the ministry in themselves duped, or who were at least di.s- Permu., of which Mark gives traces, and for which John provides the true- place ( eh. x. 1 The authorities for the transposition of 40). Lango and Godct argue that between •ls ~opT'iiv from after r,yefJ11 to before T&H the departure from the cnpit£>1 (eh. ix.) o.ncl Kai, a.re II{, B, K, L, T, X, n, some important the Feast of Dcdicu.tion, our Loni resumetl cursives and versions; they are folluwecl oy his work in Galileo, nntl there pursued the Tischendorf (8th edit.), Westcott and Hort, abuu,lnnt ministry recortlcd between Luke R.T., etc. The T.R. rests on D, r, 6, A, 1t.11cl •· and xviii. (seo 11otea of Godet and Lcmge, other unciRls l\lld cursi ve11,  308 THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. [on. vn. 1-68,