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17 And when they saw him,(310) they wors.h.i.+pped him: but some doubted.

18 And Jesus came, and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

19 Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you alway, _even_ unto the end of the world. Amen.

-- 171. Our Lord is seen of James; then of all the Apostles. _Jerusalem_.

The t.i.tle of this section in inserted, for the sake of preserving the series of Dr. Robinson, whose arrangement has been followed in this Harmony; but as the appearances of Jesus which are here referred to, are related only by Luke in Acts, i. 3-8, and by Paul in 1 Cor. xv. 7, the particular insertion of those pa.s.sages is omitted, for the reasons already given. See -- 137, note. The subject of this and the eleven preceding sections, respecting the resurrection of Jesus, is discussed in the Note on the Resurrection.

-- 172. The Ascension. _Bethany_.

Mark. Luke.

CH. XVI. 19, 20. CH. XXIV. 50-53.

19 So then, after the Lord had 50 And he led them out as far spoken unto them, he was as to Bethany:(311) and he received up into heaven, and lifted up his hands, and sat on the right hand of G.o.d. blessed them.

20 And they went forth, and 51 And it came to pa.s.s, while preached every where, the Lord he blessed them, he was parted working with _them_, and from them, and carried up into confirming the word with signs heaven.

following. Amen.

52 And they wors.h.i.+pped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy: 53 And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing G.o.d. Amen.

-- 173. Conclusion of John's Gospel.

John.

CH. XX. 30, 31.

30 And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.

31 But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of G.o.d; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

CH. XXI. 25.

25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.

NOTE ON THE RESURRECTION.

The accounts of the Resurrection and of the subsequent appearances of our Lord, have been harmonised in various methods; of which the latest, and probably the best, is that of Professor Robinson, in an article published in the Bibliotheca Sacra for February 1845, vol. ii. pp. 162-189. As the best service the present writer could do to the English reader, he has therefore here abridged that article, by omitting the introduction, and such parts as relate to the Greek text, and a few other pa.s.sages, which it seemed might be spared without injury to the narrative itself.

-- 1. _The Time of the Resurrection._

Matt. 26: 1, 2. Mark 16: 1, 2, 9. Luke 24: 1. John 20: 1.

That the resurrection of our Lord took place before full daylight, on the first day of the week, follows from the unanimous testimony of the Evangelists respecting the visit of the women to the sepulchre. But the exact time at which he rose is nowhere specified. According to the Jewish mode of reckoning, the Sabbath ended and the next day began at sunset; so that had the resurrection occurred even before midnight, it would still have been upon the first day of the week, and the third day after our Lord's burial. The earthquake had taken place and the stone had been rolled away before the arrival of the women; and so far as the immediate narrative is concerned, there is nothing to show that all this might not have happened some hours earlier. Yet the words of Mark in another place render it certain, that there could have been no great interval between these events and the arrival of the women; since he affirms in v. 9, that Jesus ”had risen _early_, the first day of the week;” while in v. 2, he states that the women went out ”_very early_.” A like inference may be drawn from the fact, that the affrighted guards first went to inform the chief priests of these events, when the women returned to the city (Matt.

28: 11); for it is hardly to be supposed, that after having been thus terrified by the earthquake and the appearance of an angel, they would have waited any very long time before sending information to their employers.-The body of Jesus had therefore probably lain in the tomb not less than about thirty-six hours.

-- 2. _The Visit of the Women to the Sepulchre._

Matt. 28: 1-8. Mark 16: 1-8. Luke 24: 1-11. John 20: 1, 2.