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ST. MATTHEW'S GOSPEL

WITH

PARALLEL PASSAGES.

MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,

PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

WITH

THE PARALLEL PASSAGES IN THE

OTHER EVANGELISTS

SHOWING

THEIR AGREEMENTS AND DIFFERENCES

With Notes and Comments

'Strive for the TRUTH unto death, and THE LORD shall fight for thee

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PREFACE.

Ir is a melancholy fact, that though this is the eighteen hundred and seventy-ninth year of the Christian era, we have not yet attained to a true knowledge of the doctrines which God revealed to us through His messenger, Jesus the Christ. From not knowing correctly what the scriptures of the New Testament really teach, many of the doctrines taught as Christianity are not founded on Christ's teaching at all, but some are based on the old abolished revelation made known to the Jews; others are Christianized adaptations from the ancient Greek mythology; while others are based on misconceptions as to what Christ taught.

It is with the view of showing what doctrines Christ really revealed unto us that the present work has been prepared; and may the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give unto us the spirit of wisdom while endeavouring to point out what are the truths which He has made known to us in the Gospels.

The theological world has been very much distracted by the very free. researches of German, Dutch, and French critics and writers, who have apparently succeeded in convincing themselves, however much they may have failed in convincing others, that the Gospels were not written by their reputed authors, and that they are of much younger date than they profess to be,—if they be not the production of compilers during the second century of the Christian era.

These critical researches, being merely speculative assumptions, whose truth can never be proved, need not unsettle the faith of any Christian. As long as the world lasts, the four Gospels-whoever wrote them-will be received by the Church as containing the only authentic accounts of the life, sayings, and doings of Jesus the Christ, the Founder of our faith. Even supposing these foreign writers and critics could prove all that, on very slender grounds, they assume, it would not render these Gospels less valuable to us, nor less worthy of being deeply studied and critically compared together, because it would still leave them as the oldest records we possess of the teachings and doings of the Founder of our faith.

In the following pages, the authorized version of the Gospel by Saint

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