A PLAIN COMMENTARY "ON The Four Holy Gospels, INTENDED CHIEFLY VOL. IV.-PART II. ST. JOH N. CHAPTERS XII.-XXI. ASK FOR THE OLD PATHS, WHERE IS THE GOOD WAY, AND WALK JEREMIAH VI. 16. GRANT, O LORD, THAT IN READING THY WORD, I MAY NEVER Bishop Wilson. LONDON, JOHN HENRY PARKER. M DCCC LV. 101.2.259. A PLAIN COMMENTARY ON THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF St. John's Gospel. 1 JESUS excuseth Mary anointing His feet. 9 The people flock to see Lazarus. 10 The high priests consult to kill Him. 12 CHRIST rideth into Jerusalem. 20 Greeks desire to see JESUS. 23 He foretelleth His death. 37 The Jews are generally blinded : 42 yet many chief rulers believe, but do not confess Him: 44 therefore JESUS calleth earnestly for confession of faith. XII. THEN JESUS six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom He raised from the dead. 'As the time approached at which our LORD had resolved to suffer, He approached the place which He had chosen for the scene of His sufferinga.' St. John proceeds to describe the Supper at Bethany; restoring that incident to its actual historical place, namely, the Sabbath before the Passover; from which St. Matthew, (and St. Mark after him,) had displaced it. They did so for an excellent reason, which has been pointed out in the note immediately preceding St. Matth. xxvi. 6; but which, as the attentive reader will • Alcuin. b St. Matth. xxvi. 6 to 13. St. Mark xiv. 3 to 9. |