[190]. Luke, 5, 8.
[191]. Luke, 7, 36-50.
[192]. Luke, 19, 1-10.
[193]. Luke, 23, 39-43.
[194]. See Harnack, What is Christianity, pp. 32-35.
[195]. See specially Weiss, N. T. Theology; Beyschlag, N. T. Theology; Wendt, Teaching of Jesus; Stevens, Theology of the New Testament; Robertson, Our Lord’s Teaching; and many others.
[196]. See Schürer, H. J. P., Div. II, Vol. II, pp. 126 ff.
[197]. The reason for His silence is to be found in the fact that the Messianic hope, as popularly held, had become largely political: to have confessed Himself the Christ would have been to precipitate a revolt against Rome. Cf. McGiffert’s Apostolic Age, 28.
[198]. Matt., 21, 1-11.
[199]. Matt., 21, 12-17.