[180]. Matt., 27, 27-31.
[181]. Matt., 27, 32-44.
[182]. It was not the teaching of Jesus, but His interference, in the interests of His own supreme standards, with the traditional worship and customs of the Jews, that led the Jewish hierarchy to determine on His death. See below p. 52.
[183]. See Hastings, Dictionary of the Bible, ad loca, and Moffatt, Historical New Testament, pp. 272-274. The most probable dates are, for Mark, 66 to 70 A.D., and for Matthew and Luke, 70 to 75 A.D.
[184]. See the masses of evidence gathered in Schürer, H. J. P.
[185]. Fairbairn, The Philosophy of the Christian Religion, pp. 328-9.
[186]. Mark, 1, 9.
[187]. Mark, 1, 9.
[188]. Mark, 6, 3.
[189]. Luke, 3, 1; 1, 4, 14.