CHAPTER V.-CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES. THE New Testament was originally written in the Greek language: but concerning the exact time when each of the several books was written, it is now difficult to determine; consequently there is some little difference of opinion among learned commentators, in reference to some of them. The following table has been compiled from the most celebrated writers on the subject. BOOK. Matthew,gospel of, 2 in Hebrew... in Greek... AUTHOR. WHERE FOR WHOSE USE. DATE. A. D. Matthew Judea...... Hebrew Christians 38 1 Thessalonians... Paul... ... Corinth...... Ditto...... 1 Corinthians...... Romans. 2 Corinthians. James.. .... ..... Mark, gospel of..... Philemon.... Hebrews............ 58 James.... Judea........ Jewish nation.... 61 Luke, gospel of..... Luke..... Greece...... Ditto..... Ditto.... Acts... Titus. .... 98 Hebrew Christians 63 Theophilus and Ditto... 64 64 64 Ditto.............. 65 Babylon or Rome Ditto. 2 Timothy... Paul...... Rome........ Timothy........... 65 1 Peter.............. Peter..... Babylon General......... 1 John, epistle of... John..... Ephesus..... General.. 2 John, do...... Ditto..... Ditto... ... ... The Elect Lady... 69 do...... Ditto..... Ditto......... Gaius... 3 John, Revelation.. John, gospel of..... Ditto..... Patmos..... General ........... 97 CHAPTER VI. THE MIRACLES OF CHRIST. IT is evident from the evangelical narratives, that only a very small number of the miracles of our divine Lord have been circumstantially mentioned by the sacred writers. The following, therefore, is only a list of the more particularly noted miracles of Christ. MIRACLES. Water turned into wine.... PLACE. TheCapernaum nobleman's son cured Ditto.... RECORD. John ii. 1-11. iv. 46-54. Surprising draught of fishes........ S. of Galilee Luke v. 1-11. Demoniac cured... Peter's mother-in-law healed. Leper healed........ Centurion's servant healed.. Capernaum. Mark i. 22-28. Ditto......... Ditto......... Ditto....... S. of Galilee Widow's son raised from the dead.. Woman diseased with issue of blood Diseased cripple at Bethesda cured.. ....... Lazarus raised from the grave to life The ear of Malthus healed. Ditto... 30, 31. 40-45. Wondrous draught of fishes........ S. of Galilee John xxi. 1-14. CHAPTER VII.-RECORDED PARABLES OF JESUS CHRIST. Conversation with Nicodemus...... Jerusalem.. John iii. 1-21. woman. DISCOURSES. Discourse in the synagogue....... Ordination charge to the apostles... Refutation of the charge, of his working miracles by the agency of Beelzebub.... Discourse on the bread of life...... concerning internal purity against giving or taking offence and forgiving of injuries at the feast of tabernacles on occasion of the adulte ress woman.. iv. 1-42. Nazareth.... Luke iv. 16-31. Jerusalem.. John v. X. xi. 20-24. concerning the sheep..... Ditto......... viii 1-11. X. Peræa...... Luke xi. 37-45. Denunciation against the scribes and pharisees. xxiii. Ditto......... xxiv. Ditto......... John xiv.-xvi. Denunciations against the pharisees Ditto......... Predictions concerning the destruc tion of Jerusalem.. Discourse of consolation....... on the way to Gethsemane Ditto......... Matt. xxvi.31-36. with his disciples before Ditto........ his ascension.... - CHAPTER IX.-JEWISH SECTS. xxviii.16-20. ON the restoration of the Jewish church, after the Babylonish captivity, there arose two parties among them, who manifested a regard for religion. One of them adhered to the Scriptures only, rejecting all human traditions. Professing to observe the whole law they assumed the name Zadikim, the righteous. From these proceeded the Samaritans and the Sadducees. The other party, besides the inspired Scriptures, superadded the traditions of the elders; and from a supposed superior degree of sanctity were called Chasidim, the pious. From these arose the Pharisees and Essenes. 1. The Samaritans were originally the idolatrous successors of the ten tribes, part of whom the king of Assyria sent to unite with the scattered few in repeopling Samaria and the land of Israel. At first as a punishment for their idolatry, they were plagued with lions; but on this being reported to the king, a priest was sent from among the captives, to instruct them in the law of God. "So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence," 2 Kings xvii. 24-33. Afterwards they became partially reformed, admitted the writings of Moses, built a temple on mount Gerizim, and worshipped the God of Israel. From the conver |