157 – Palestine Exploration Fund Map; but Baedeker 1,788 ft. 158 – See the full references and statements in Maclear’s “New Testament History,” p. 134. Merivale shows that Cyrenius was twice governor of Syria, and the Greek word πρώτη may refer to the first time, or the enrolment. See also Bloomfield’s “Notes on the New Testament,” Luke 2. “The whole world” is a term frequently used when only all that land and no more was meant. Thus in 2 Sam. 24:8, in the Hebrew, “the whole world” meant, evidently, the whole of that land only. So in Acts 11:28; 17:6; the phrase was used in either way as including only the entire Syria or Judæa to a Jew, or, to a Roman citizen, it was the Roman Empire. 159 – Gen. 49:10. 160 – As shown in Prideaux’s “Connection.” 161 – This place was then in Gaul, now called France. 162 – “Wars of the Jews,” VI., §9:3. 163 – Bloomfield, John 2:14, note. 164 – Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great by Malthace. See the Table, p. 229. 165 – Bloomfield, Notes in Matt. 9:9. 166 – Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration. 167 – Died A. D. 420. 168 – Murray’s “Handbook,” 1875, p. 408. 169 – Baedeker’s “Palestine and Syria,” p. 374. 170 – Merrill, “Galilee in the time of Christ,” p. 48. 171 – Herodotus, 3:20, and Athen., p. 268. 172 – Bloomfield, “Notes,” Matt. 26:7. 173 – Idyll 15, line 114; Parkhurst, Lex., 5; Bloomfield, Luke 8:1. 174 – Josephus, “Antiquities,” XVII., 2:2. 175 – Ellicott, 333, in Maclear’s “Class Book of the New Testament,” p. 149. 176 – Prideaux, “Connection,” II., 9, p. 379. 177 – “Antiquities,” XVIII., 3:2. 178 – Pausanias, V., 12:12, in Bloomfield’s “Notes,” Matt. 27:51. 179 – As mentioned, “Iliad,” III., l. 315, 316, etc. “Iliad,” VII., l. 175, 176, etc. 180 – Conybeare and Howson’s, “Life and Travels of St. Paul,” CXIV. 181 – John 21:2, 3. 182 – Sebaste being the Greek form of the word Augustus. 183 – Acts 6:5. 184 – Baedeker, p. 317. 185 – Josephus’ “Antiquities,” XIX., 1:11, and Maclear’s “New Testament History,” p. 394. 186 – These cohorts are mentioned by Arrian; see authority in Bloomfield’s “Notes,” Acts 10:1. 187 – Maclear, “New Testament History,” p. 403, note. 188 – Tac., “Ann.,” 12:13; Josephus, “Antiquities,” III., 15:3; XX., 2:5. The famine here foretold took place in Judæa A. D. 44, in the fourth year of Claudius. Josephus, “Antiquities,” XIX., 7:2. 189 – Merivale, VI., 116, 117. Cassius Longinus was now appointed, A. D. 44, to the presidency of Syria, and Cuspius Fadus was appointed governor of Judæa, Josephus, “Antiquities,” XIX., 9:2; XX., 1:1. See Maclear, “New Testament History,” p. 409.