THE EXECUTION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
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Strauss, David Friedrich and Eliot, George
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67 Schulz, die Lehre vom Abendmahl, s. 145. Winer, Realwörterbuch, 1, s. 693. ↑
68 Commentar, s. 380. ↑
69 The passage above quoted from the Acts gives us also some explanation, why the fourth Evangelist of all others should be solicitous to place the Baptist in a more favourable relation to Jesus, than history allows us to conceive. According to v. 1 ff. there were persons in Ephesus who knew only of John’s baptism, and were therefore rebaptized by the Apostle Paul in the name of Jesus. Now an old tradition represents the fourth gospel to have been written in Ephesus (Iræneus adv. hær. iii. 1). If we accept this (and it is certainly correct in assigning a Greek locality for the composition of this Gospel), and presuppose, in accordance with the intimation in the Acts, that Ephesus was the seat of a number of the Baptist’s followers, all of whom Paul could hardly have converted; the endeavour to draw them over to Jesus would explain the remarkable stress laid by the fourth Evangelist on the μαρτυρία Ἰωάννου. Storr has very judiciously remarked and discussed this, über den Zweck der Evangelischen Geschichte und der Briefe Johannis, s. 5 ff. 24 f. Compare Hug, Einleitung in das N. T., s. 190 3te Ausg. ↑
70 Antiq. xviii. v. 2. ↑
71 Ueber den Lukas, s. 109. ↑
72 Ibid. p. 106. ↑
73 Ueber den Ursprung u. s. w. s. 79. ↑
74 The expression οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι is thus interpreted by the most learned exegetists. Comp. Paulus, Lücke, Tholuck in loc. ↑
75 Lücke, Commentar, s. 327. ↑
76 Lücke, s. 339. ↑
77 Whether the dialogue between John and his complaining disciples (John iii. 25 ff.) be likewise a transmutation of the corresponding scene, Matt. ix. 14 f., as Bretschneider seeks to show, must remain uncertain. Probab., p. 66 ff. ↑
78 That Jesus, as many suppose, assigns a low rank to the Baptist, because the latter thought of introducing the new order of things by external violence, is not to be detected in the gospels. ↑
79 For a different explanation see Schneckenburger, Beiträge, s. 48 ff. ↑
80 Antiq. xviii. v. 2. ↑
81 This former husband of Herodias is named by the Evangelists, Philip, by Josephus, Herod. He was the son of the high priest’s daughter, Mariamne, and lived as a private person. V. Antiq. xv. ix. 3; xviii. v. 1. 4. B. j. i. xxix. 2, xxx. 7. ↑
82 Antiq. xviii. v. 4. ↑
83 Hase, Leben Jesu, s. 88. ↑
84 Fritzsche, Comm. in Matth. in loc. Winer, bibl. Realwörterb. 1, s. 694. ↑
85 Paulus, exeg. Handb. 1, a, s. 361; Schleiermacher, über den Lukas, s. 109. ↑
86 Vergl. Fritzsche, Comm. in Marc., p. 225. ↑
87 E.g. Schneckenburger, über den Ursprung des ersten kanonischen Evangeliums, s. 86 f. That the ἐλυπήθη of Matthew, v. 9, is not contradictory to his own narrative, see Fritzsche, in loc. ↑
88 S. Winer, b. Realwörterb. d. A. Herodes Antipas. ↑
89 Fritzsche, Commentar. in Matt., p. 491. ↑
90 Antiq. xviii. v. 1. ↑