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 An aspect of the facts, which presents a 
 
 HARMONY OF THE NARRATIVES OF THE SyNOP- 
 TISTS, WHO RELATE OUR LoRD's MIRACLE OF GIV- 
 ING SIGHT TO THE BLIND, ON THE OCCASION OF 
 HIS PASSING THROUGH JeRICHO. 
 
 Matt XX. 29-34 ; Mark x. 4.6-62 ; Luke xviii. 35-43. 
 
 The explanation that I offer of the apparent discrepancy 
 in this case, makes it necessary for me to establish, relatively 
 to Luke xviii. 39, 40, that there was, in fact, between the oc- 
 currences related in the former, and those stated in the latter 
 of those two verses, an interval unnoticed by that Evangelist. 
 
 I purpose to show that the blind man who sat by the way- 
 side when " Jesus came nigh unto Jericho," may, simultaneous- 
 ly with Bartimeus, have been a recipient of the Divine gift of 
 sight, at " the going out from Jericho," and that to the two, at 
 first separated, but afterwards brought together — one of thera 
 being noticed by St. Luke, the other by St. Mark — St. Mat- 
 thew refers. 
 
 I thus read the narratives, regarded as a whole : Jesus, on 
 His journey to Jerusalem, passed through Jericho, followed 
 by a multitude. As He came nigh to the latter place, a blind 
 man — the subject of St. Luke's narrative — sat by the wayside, 
 begging. He, made aware of the approach of Christ, rose up, 
 and advancing with the crowd, stimulated and invigorated by 
 'lis great faith, inferable from the language of his supplica- 
 tion, reached at last, and until then apparently unnoticed by 
 Him, who was the object of his pursuit, a spot at, or near to 
 the place of " going out from Jericho," seating himself by the 
 
 
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 wayside there. There, at that time was sitting blind Barti- 
 meus. There, St. Matthew saw them both. There they repeat- 
 ed earnestly the same supplication. There, our Lord " stood 
 still," "summoned them," and gave them sight. The place 
 where they thus were is the only locality referred to in the 
 narratives where it neceasarUy appears that Jesus healed 
 blind eyes, on the particular day. It is fixed by St. Mark, St. 
 Matthew being in accordance with, and St. Luke not being, 
 as I hope to show, at variance with him, at the place of " going 
 out from Jericho." What follows will, I think, support my 
 hypothesis as to the state of the facts, and meet every reason- 
 able objection to it. St. Mark mentions a little circumstance 
 3f significance as to the place of healing, when he tells us 
 that Bartiraeus, after he was healed, " followed Jesus in the 
 way." From the narratives we gather, with certainty, the 
 following facts :— 
 
 As our Lord was passing through Jerich^ , Zaccheus was in 
 the way, " pressed by the crowd." Our Lord never left the 
 way from His first entrance, by it, within Jericho, until after 
 He had healed Bartimeus, nor until after He had seen Zaccheus. 
 There is no intimation of any miracle having been wrought 
 after Zaccheus was first seen. 
 
 No reason exists for disturbing the order of events as stated 
 by St. Luke, beginning with verse 35 of ch. xviii. and ending 
 with verse 5 of the following chapter. That portion of his 
 narrative, viewed, of course, according to his impression of 
 facts, reads thus : " And it came to pass as He was come nigh 
 to Jericho, a certain blind man s. b. t. w. " — and so on to the 
 end of the chapter, which tells only what occurred before 
 Jericho was entered. The first six verses of the following 
 chapter relate what took place after Jesus had entered Jericho, 
 and that has reference to Zaccheus alone. No miracle is 
 recorded to have been performed after Jesus had visited the 
 house of Zaccheug. The first interview between our Lord and 
 him must have taken place immediately after the healing of 
 Bartimeus ; and, shortly after that; Jesus must have gone to 
 be the guest of Zaccheus. 
 
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 highway 1 
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 absuhito ai 
 sense than 
 Zacchei's— 
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 by supposl 
 the reports 
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 to a point 
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 U8US healed 
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 Jesus in the 
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 lever left the 
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 een Zaccheus. 
 )een wrought 
 
 ents as stated 
 i. and ending 
 jortion of his 
 impression of 
 as come nigh 
 
 so on to the 
 jurred before 
 the following 
 >,tered Jericho, 
 Jo miracle is 
 ,d visited the 
 
 our Lord and 
 he healing of 
 have gone to 
 
 The orij^'inai words of Matthew xx. 29, rendered "as they de- 
 part«'(l," and the ori;,Mnal words of Mark x. 40, rendered " as 
 he went out of" import this, ami only this, relatively to our 
 Lord and the crowd, that they were, at the times referred to, 
 in. the act of " going out " of Jericho, that is, by and on the 
 hi^diway by which they had entered within that place. A 
 constrtiction of the phrases that would make them import an 
 absolute and final departure from Jericho proper, in any other 
 sense than that of leaving the place to go to the liouse of 
 Zacchoi'.s — supposing that luere shown to he outside of Jericho 
 — is not at all necessary. Some commentators have been misled 
 by supposing — without any authority for the assumption in 
 the reports — that the miraculous acts referred to by St. Mat- 
 thew and St. Mark, have, or that either of them has, reference 
 to a point of time subsequent to Jesus' visit to the house of 
 Zaccheus. 
 
 In consistency with my view, our Lord, on witnessing the 
 manifestation of Zaccheus' faith, may have, then changed a 
 primary purpose of going on at once to Jerusalem, and that, 
 in order to proceed to the residence of Zaccheus. To me it ap- 
 pears in the highest degree probable that such was the fact. I 
 regard the words of the original of verse 1, chapter xix. as 
 very significant to a right understanding of the eflfect of St. 
 Luke's narrative. That Evangelist writes — "He, having 
 entered into Jericho, was passing through it," — i. c. traversing 
 it by means of a highway that extended through it. Jesus, of 
 whom this is predicated, was then passing through Jericho, 
 purposing to go out of it, beyond it, to a fixed destination. 
 We know that that destination was Jerusalem. With a view 
 to that, He proceeds, by the highway, in a direction towards 
 the Holy City, until He — being, then, in the very act of " going 
 out of " Jericho, and still in the way — sees Zaccheus, and wit- 
 nesses his faith. — He immediately announces to Zaccheus, His 
 intention that day, to stay at his house. Thither He goes. 
 What is the fair and natural inference ? Do not the circum- 
 stances point to the conclusion that I have intimated? 
 
The following' aspect of tltf tliict^ imnativt's is prosmtctl : 
 In each tlu'in an; tliroc actors — om Lord, a blind man, a crowd. 
 In eacl>, follovvinj^ tho course of thr nairative up to and in- 
 clusive of the statement "And Jesus stoo<l," wiiicli is conum)n 
 to them all, the acta, the uftcranci'H, of ei'try one of thfi tidors, 
 the rebuke of the crowd incliuhil, are ideut'ieal with the actn, 
 utterances and rehiikv dated in each of the other iiarrativeM. 
 Tliis makes it most iiiiprol»able that I'ach narrative records a 
 distinct miracle, or tliat St. Mattlievv notices one exercise of 
 Divine healing power, and St. Lulce another. Wo may ob- 
 Rorve, also, a substantial harmony of the circumstances stated 
 in all the narratives sul)se(|uently to thos«5 noticed altove. 
 The internal evidenc«i aflbided by tliis remarkable eo-ineidenco 
 points to a conclusion, that only on(! occasion of giving sight 
 to blind eyes is within the scope of all the narratives. The 
 effect of this evidence will be striking, if the reports be placed 
 before the mind's eye thus :— - 
 
 Matt. XX, V. 31. — " Have mercy on us, Lord, tl. i Son of Diivid." 
 V. 32.— "And Jesua stood Htill, and called them." 
 
 Mark x, v. 48.—" Thou Son of David, have mercy uii me." 
 
 V. 49.— "And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be nailed." 
 
 Luke xviii, v. 39. — "Thou Son of David, have mercy on me." 
 
 V. 40.—" And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought 
 unto him." 
 
 In view of this, ask, Did Jesus, that day, hear the particular 
 words of supplication from a blind tiian sitting iy the way, as 
 " He was com j nigh to Jericho," and immediately stand and 
 summon the suppliant to his presence; and did He again, that 
 day, hear the same supplication addressed to Him by Bartirneus, 
 sitting by the way '' as He went out of Jericho," and again 
 immediately stand and summon Bartirneus ; and did He again 
 that day, hear the same supplication addressed to Him by two 
 blind men, sitting by the way, "as He departed from Jericho," 
 and again immediately stand, and summon the two sap- 
 pliants ? The mind must be differently constituted from mine 
 that can give an affirmative answer to that question ! 
 
 
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 Oltservo in connection with this coincidtnco, that, while it 
 i.i hi;;My inipiohahlo that two hiind men, acting' in (listant 
 j)hic«!s, HhoiiM liavf a<liIi«'»Ht»(l onv hovd in pn-ciNely the same, 
 and thoHu, reiimriiahle, tcinis of supplication, the circuniMtance 
 is not iniprohahle, when both arc sitting' side by Mitle, and 
 moved l»y the same impidse. It would ])e indeed quite natural, 
 tliat the blind man soated "at tlie place of goinj/ out," heanl 
 this' cry uttered by him who had, at first, sat " at tno approach 
 to Jericho," and echoed it, v/hen both wore brou;^'ht to^'etlier. 
 
 In this case, St. jMatthew's report must be used as a key to 
 a discovery of the facts, because he was an eye witness to all 
 that occurred — see Malt. xx. 17-1 ft, — and because neither St. 
 Luke nor St. Mark appears to have been sucli ; especially so, 
 if wo consider that St. Mark is in harmony with St. Matthew, 
 as to th'; place, and in every other respect, a.ssuraing that St. 
 Mark knew of Hartimeus alove being healed. St. Matthew 
 proceeds at once ti' relate the event which occurred at the de- 
 parture from Jericho. Ho, present witli his Lord tlirough- 
 out the whole <lay's journey, mentions one only miraculous 
 act, as done on the day in question. That surely, is a .striking 
 fact! 
 
 I now turn to St. Luke, proposing to accommodate his report 
 to that of St. Matthew, but without violating any rule of con- 
 struction in doinir so. If St. Luke's narrative must bo read aa 
 relating events in unbroken continuity, as it would, of course, 
 have to be if it stood alone, there is a discrepancy as to the place 
 where the blind man referred to by him is represented by him 
 to have been when Jesus opened his eyes, for St. Matthew, jtre- 
 sent at that place, saw not that act of healing there performed. 
 But, if there was in fact, though it is not told by St. Luke, an 
 interval between the second cry of that man and the " stand- 
 ing of Jesus," — an interval that would be represented by the 
 time occupied by our Lord in passing from the place of en- 
 tnince into Jericho, by the way, to the place where Bartimeus 
 received liis sight, or to that where Zaccheus first appeared — 
 then h'ai Miony peivades the three narratives. Surely this is 
 
sug^ostivo! St. Murk's report, iloi's ni)t tnnr that hannoiiy. 
 \U; was not, .s<» far us wn know, uii u^'^-witiuM of tlu> oceuir- 
 eiices. It woiilil bo ilifHcult to n';,'unl liiin as such, for lu) i«»- 
 fui's to tliu huuling of liurtinious as a iiiiniclu <listiiict from 
 that which in nicordod hy St. Mattlu'W. \Vr know howovcr, 
 that nonu hucIi was ]k rformcd, inasniucli as it is unnoticed liy 
 St. Mattlusw. And, yet, thuru is no inconsistency hotween St. 
 Mutthew ami St. Mark. The latter was not as we nuiy assuino, 
 inforuicd that Hartimeus was one of the two tliat St. Matthr-w 
 saw healed at the place mentioned in hoth their narrativev. 
 It cannot be urged that St. Matthew did not report the heal- 
 ing of Bartinieus, because he knew that St. Luke had related 
 it. The precedent exi.-tence of St. Matthew'.s narrative rests 
 uu the unaniniou" authority of the ancient Fathers. 
 
 Let us incjuire, then, what objections can be reasonably 
 urged against so reading St. Luke, as if his report expresstnl 
 the assumed interval. It may be objected — and no other ob- 
 jection occurs to my mind — that St. Luke appedrH to have 
 ii»tended the several circumstances stated by him to be under- 
 .stood as having occurred without interruption of continuity. 
 
 This is my rationale of interpretation of his report: Ho, 
 from some unknown source — hut not as an eye-vntneas — 
 learned everything that he lias reported ; but, I suppose, that 
 he had not been informed of the only fact aa»\iined by me, 
 viz., that Jesus, aware of the presence of the blind man, when 
 he sat at the entrance to Jericho, suffered him to keep pur- 
 suing, for a portion of the luay, and then summoned him to 
 His presence. 
 
 Obviously, this alternative presents itself : either thus to 
 modify St. Luke's narrative, or to hold that St. Matthew did 
 not mention the healing " at the entrance to Jericho,'' because 
 he did not know of the fact, or because he had forgotten it, 
 or because ho did not deem it worthy of notice. He could 
 not but have been aware of it, if it was a fact. The truth is, 
 that his silence on the point can only be explained, by sup- 
 posing the fact to have been, as I am thoroughly satisfied it 
 
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 was, tliitt one of the ''two" whoM rifen fui nav^ o/wn^f/ hjf nur 
 Lui'tl, at "the fjonig out," wan tlif trvif man tvliojn St. Luhe 
 §}ntdH of an Hiftimj hy fhr ii'iD/Miili' at the ttpptuuioli to Jiricho. 
 
 llrfoiH' conchKliii^' this |>ii|M'r, I invito attention to ci'itnin 
 pu^sfi^'tH ill St. Liik*<'H (lo«iH'l tluit show his lujuimT of report- 
 inj; oveiitM nil/vtivfly to tho tinirs wlmn they occMirrrd. C'^m- 
 paro Luko xviii, .'l!)-4(>— thu casi' heforo us- witli Liik< tii, 
 lS-20; Iiiik<» xxiv, 40-.')l, and Lwkv xix, 44-45; ohm-rvin;,', that 
 ill »»ac'h of th«( thit't' first iin'iitioiuMl piacf's tho two consrciitive 
 vtdses ar»' coniw'ctcil hy tht; Hann' (}i«M>k oonjiitu'tioti. \n to 
 thf first of tln'sc iiistnmM's, St. Liiki* iii. lH-20: St. Lukt> a/)- 
 pai'M to liavo rolatrd tho iinprisonimmt of th<i Baptist to have 
 takun place iiniiuMliatfly after th«' clos«» of the .seriiion of the 
 latter, wherea.s evich-nee aliiindo shows that an interval of some 
 days elapsed between the two circumstances. If there were no 
 explanatory extrinsic evidence, then tho effect of what St. Luke 
 relates in chapter xxiv, 49-51, woidd be, that the A.sccnaion of 
 our Lord took place on the very day cf Ilis Resurrection. Turn- 
 ing to St. Luke xix, 44-45, and reading' the verses alone, it a/)- 
 prai'fi that our Lord purged the Temple immediately upon his 
 triumphal entry into Jerusalem; whereas, to make those verses 
 accord with Mark xi. 11-16, we must understand that there 
 was an interval of a night spent at Bethany between the two 
 events. As to extrinsic evidence in like manner aflfecting the 
 subject of our inquiry, we have it in the combined circumstances 
 of St. Matthew's presence at the entrance to, and at the j/oing 
 out from, Jericho, and in his silence as to any miracle having 
 been performed at the former place : So that the cases refer- 
 red to are parallel with that before us. 
 
 For my own part, if there were in those throe narratives an 
 incurable discrepancy as regards the circumstances detailed, 
 the existence of such would not in the least impair my faith 
 in the Divine inspiration of any one of the documents ; al- 
 though I should, in that case, deem it unwise to force the dis- 
 cordant elements into an unnatural and only seeming accord- 
 ance. But, after a careful consideration of the subject before 
 
mo. I have at loaMt convince.! myM-lf. that my hypothoNU pro- 
 HentM an intur])rctation of ihcHo ivportn. that is.aliko. Ii rmon- 
 
 ioui and true. ... 
 
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