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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH GERMAN EDITION
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTHICAL POINT OF VIEW IN RELATION TO THE GOSPEL HISTORIES
- FIRST PART HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS
- SECOND PART HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS
- CHAPTER I RELATIONS BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST
- CHAPTER II BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF JESUS
CHAPTER I - RELATIONS BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION
- PREFACE TO THE FOURTH GERMAN EDITION
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT OF THE MYTHICAL POINT OF VIEW IN RELATION TO THE GOSPEL HISTORIES
- FIRST PART HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS
- SECOND PART HISTORY OF THE PUBLIC LIFE OF JESUS
- CHAPTER I RELATIONS BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST
- CHAPTER II BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF JESUS
Summary
CHRCNOLOGICAL RELATIONS BETWEEN JOHN AND JESUS
For the ministry of John the Baptist, mentioned in all the Gospels, the second and fourth evangelists fix no epoch; the first gives us an inexact one; the third, one apparently precise. According to Matt. iii. 1. John appeared as a preacher of repentance, in those days, ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐϰείναις, that is, if we interpret strictly this reference to the previous narrative, about the time when the parents of Jesus settled at Nazareth, and when Jesus was yet a child. We are told, however, in the context, that Jesus came to John for baptism; hence between the first appearance of the Baptist, which was cotemporary with the childhood of Jesus, and the period at which the latter was baptized, we must intercalate a number of years, during which Jesus might have become sufficiently matured to partake of John's baptism. But Matthew's description of the person and work of the Baptist is so concise, the office attributed to him is so little independent, so entirely subservient to that of Jesus, that it was certainly not the intention of the evangelist to assign a long series of years to his single ministry. His meaning incontestably is, that John's short career early attained its goal in the baptism of Jesus.
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- The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined , pp. 299 - 347Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010