Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists Matthew Mark and Luke John Calvin (continued)
Matthew 4:12,17;Mark 1:14-15;Luke 3:19-20; 4:14
MATTHEW 4:12, 17; MARK 1:14-15;
LUKE 3:19-20; 4:14
Matthew 4:12, 17
Mark 1:14-15
Luke 3:19-20
12. And when Jesus heard that John had been delivered up, 317 he withdrew into Galilee. 17. From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
14. Now after that John had been imprisoned, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God: 15. And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the Gospel.
19. Now Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the wicked actions which Herod did, 20. Added also this above all, and shut up John in prison.
Luke 4:14-15
14. And Jesus returned by the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and a report went out through the whole country concerning him. 15. And he taught in their synagogues, and was glorified by all.
Luke 3:19. Now Herod the tetrarch. Luke alone explains the reason why Herod threw John into prison: though we shall afterwards find it mentioned by Matthew
14:3, and Mark 6:17. Josephus says, (Ant. 18, v. 2,) that Herod, dreading a popular insurrection and a change of the government, shut up John in the castle of Macherus, (because he dreaded the man's influence;)318 and that Herodias was married, not to Philip, who was Salome's husband, but to another Herod. But as his recollection appears to have failed him in this matter, and as he mentions also Philip's death out of its proper place, the truth of the history will be obtained, with greater certainty, from the Evangelists, and we must abide by their testimony.319 It is well known, that 317"Que Jean estoit prisonnier;" — "that John was prisoner." 318"Pource qu'il savoit que c'estoit un homme de grande authorite envers le peuple, et pourtant se dutoit de luy." — "Because he knew that he was a man of great authority among the people, and therefore had doubts about him."
319The solution usually given, we believe, for this apparent discrepancy, is, that the name of