Our Lord, leaving Capernaum, made the journey through Samaria to Jerusalem, John vii. 3, Luke ix. 51, 56, arriving there about the 18th of September, which in this year was the middle of the Feast of Tabernacles. The sending out of the Seventy took place soon afterwards, Luke x. 1.
a.d. 29. October.
Our Lord takes up His residence in Judæa, possibly at Bethany, see p. [370]. Incident of woman taken in adultery, John viii. 1. Our Lord in the house of Martha, Luke x. 38-40.
November.
Our Lord probably passed this month in Judæa. Many of the events of Luke, chapters xi., xii., xiii. may have occurred at this time, but we must not conclude for certain from St Luke's account that the events of these chapters all fell together in one short period. Some of them are related by St Matthew in a different connexion; it seems impossible to place them in order.
a.d. 29. December.
The Feast of dedication (encaenia), John x. 22, fell in this year on the 20th of December, and lasted eight days. At the end of our Lord's discourse at this feast, St John says “They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand. And he went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John was at first baptizing, and there he abode.” John x. 39, 40.
a.d. 30. January. a.u.c. 783.
Our Lord may have remained at the place just mentioned, “the Peræan Bethany” (see a.d. 28, March), during this month, having probably only a few followers with Him.
“And many came unto him; and they said, John [pg 486] indeed did no sign: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.” John x. 41.