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to enter in." (3) The striking closing statement, "The last shall 

 be first." 



These subjects are all referred to directly, or indirectly, in the 

 parallel passages in Matthew and Mark. Hence we conclude that 

 all the five records refer to one and the same conversation, made on 

 the same final journey to Jerusalem. 



Dr. Schofield states that Lukan triplications are apparent, but 

 it is evident that the long one, Luke (A), Luke (B), Luke (C), is 

 cryptic to him. Otherwise he would conclude that the sentence 

 about the fox, the hen and her brood (Luke xiii, 31-35) was spoken 

 on the very last journey, and most probably near to Jerusalem. 

 For it came just after the conversation with the man about the 

 saved — the inheritors of eternal life, which we judge from the 

 reference to the Jerusalem-Jericho road in the parallel passage in 

 Luke (A) (x, 25-37), containing the Parable of the Good Samaritan, 

 was uttered on that route. The latter half of the sentence about 

 the hen and her brood was repeated at Jerusalem, according to 

 Matthew xxiii, 37, only a few days afterwards. 



Now it was in accord with our Lord's practice to speak on the 

 same subject on days near together, as for instance when He referred 

 to Himself as the Bread of Life on the day after the miracle of 

 feeding the five thousand (John vi, 11, 22, 51). Hence, if the long 

 threefold narrative is accepted, we must judge that Luke is historical 

 and accurate in the passage under consideration. But Dr. Schofield 

 thinks that the sentence in r|uestion was spoken just before the 

 feast of Dedication, more than three months before the Crucifixion ; 

 if so, all unity of time is lost and Luke's historicity must be given 

 up; for it is most unlikely that our Lord would have repeated the 

 same sentence about the hen and her brood at times so far 

 separated from each other. 



There are difficult questions connected with the presence of 

 Judas at the Lord's Supper, but St. Luke's history of what took 

 place is quite consistent with itself. AVe are told in chapter xxii, 

 4, 5, that the traitor was away plotting with the chief priests. But 

 he was afterwards present at the eating of the Passover (xxii, 21). 

 Later on he must have left, because he met our Lord in the garden, 

 and guided the multitude to apprehend Him (xxii, 47). 



In reply to the Rev. A. H. Finn, it is, of course, true that fruits, 

 corn, lilies and grass ripen at different times, but all are growing 



