⁸⁹ Matt. ix. 20-22.

⁹⁰ See note 9, p. 419.

⁹¹ John xi. 43.

⁹² Matt. xxvii. 15-18, 21-23.

⁹³ John xix. 12.

⁹⁴ Or, slanderous.

⁹⁵ The word here, xa/risma, is used in the New Testament only of gifts and graces bestowed by God, and specially of the miraculous gifts imparted to the early Christians by the Holy Ghost. The word in Matt. ii. 11 is dw=ra.

⁹⁶ Matt. ii. 14-16. [The writer seems to identify Herod the Great and Herod Antipas.-R.]

⁹⁷ Luke xxiii. 6-11. [The only passage directly interpolated into Luke's narrative is "as being derived of the race of the Jews." A curious blunder of the compiler!-R.]

⁹⁸ Matt. xxvii. 25.

⁹⁹ John xix. 2, 3; Matt. xxvii. 29.

¹⁰⁰ Mark xv. 21.

¹⁰¹ Qeoto/koj- a word used several times by Athanasius (died 373), e.g., in Orat. iii. Contra Arianos, c. 14 and 29. The refusal of Nestorius to give this epithet to Mary was the commencement, in 428, of the long struggle between the rival sees of Constantinople and Alexandria. See Haag, Histoire des Dogmes Chretiens, i. 190. The paragraphs about the Qeoto/koj in this chapter are interpolations.

¹⁰² Lit., and.

¹⁰³ Lit., darkended.

¹⁰⁴ A mistaken reference to John xix. 13.

¹⁰⁵ John xix. 26, 27.

¹⁰⁶ Luke xxiii. 34; cf. Acts vii. 60.

¹⁰⁷ John xix. 28; Matt. xxvii. 48.

¹⁰⁸ Comp. Matt. xxvii. 40-42.

¹⁰⁹ Luke xxiii. 39-43. MS. C. here inserts the early history of the robber Dysmas. [See note 3, p. 426.-R.]

¹¹⁰ Luke xxiii. 46.

¹¹¹ Comp. Luke xxiii. 44-49.

¹¹² John xix. 31-34.

¹¹³ [Or simply, "the Preparation;" comp. Matt. xxvii. 62, and elsewhere, in the Rev. Vers.-R.]

¹¹⁴ Comp. Matt. xxvii. 60.

¹¹⁵ John xix. 38-42.

¹¹⁶ Luke ii. 35.

¹¹⁷ It is to be observed that John's Gospel is much more frequently quoted in this book than any of the others.

¹¹⁸ Observe the anachronism.

¹¹⁹ Matt. xxvii. 62-66.

¹²⁰ Matt. xxviii. 1-8.

¹²¹ Matt. xxviii. 11-15.

¹²² Mark xvi. 16.

¹²³ 1 Cor. xv. 6.

¹²⁴ e0si/kwsan, which should be e0sh/kwsan, is a modern Greek word, the aorist of shko/nw.

¹²⁵ Ps. cxviii. 26; Matt. xxi. 9.

¹²⁶ Or, literally, men of good family.

¹²⁷ Deut. xix. 15; Matt. xviii. 16.

¹²⁸ This last clause would be better as a question: And how is it the truth that he has risen?

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