A KEY To the Narrative of THE FOUR GOSPELS BY JOHN PILKINGTON NORRIS, M.A. CANON OF BRISTOL, AND FORMERLY ONE OF H. M. INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS RIVINGTONS London, Oxford, and Cambridge 1869 101. g 349. Preface HIS is an age of historical criticism. TH Some think we are carrying it too far. It is difficult to see how it can possibly be carried too far, so long as it is sincere and thoroughgoing. But, rightly or wrongly, so it is. Everything purporting to be a fact in the world's history is being thus tested, that we may see for ourselves whether it have about it the character of an authentic fact or no. The Gospel narratives cannot escape this kind of criticism. The purpose of the following pages is to help our younger students to realize to themselves the narrative of these four Gospels: to show that they are not contradictory but supplemental to each other. It may not be possible to weave into one consistent chronicle all their anecdotes of our blessed Lord's ministry. But it may be possible so far to succeed in reconstructing the original order of events, as to satisfy any candid mind that their |