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The Harmony of the Gospels, Book II

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Chapter 31. Of the Account Given by Matthew and Luke of the Occasion When John the Baptist Was in Prison, and Dispatched His Disciples on a Mission to the Lord.

78. Matthew proceeds with his narrative in the following terms: And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding His twelve disciples, He departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities. Now, when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, and said to Him, Are you He that should come, or do we look for another? and so on, until we come to the words, And Wisdom is justified of her children. This whole section relating to John the Baptist, touching the message which he sent to Jesus, and the tenor of the reply which those whom he dispatched received, and the terms in which the Lord spoke of John after the departure of these persons, is introduced also by Luke. The order, however, is not the same. But it is not made clear which of them gives the order of his own recollections, and which keeps by the historical succession of the things themselves.

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Source. Translated by S.D.F. Salmond. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 6. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1602231.htm>.

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