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Some instances may now be given to show the clever compilation of connected sentences out of the accounts of different Evangelists, e.g.—
“And came into the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized, and there He abode, and great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there, and as He was wont He taught them again” (vide St. Matt. xix. 1; St. John x. 40; St. Mark x. 1),
which reads as if it was one sentence, but is in reality four extracts from three Evangelists.
Again—At the supper at Bethany—
“She annointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair, and she brake the box, and poured it on His head, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment” (vide St. John xii. 3; St. Mark xiv. 3).
Or this:
“Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her, whereon never man sat; loose them and bring them unto me” (vide St. Matt. xxi. 2; St. Mark xi. 2).
In both these extracts a little incident supplied by St. Mark is introduced into the main narrative of another Evangelist, who had not mentioned it.
The following also is interesting, taken from the gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke—