Luke agrees with neither of his brother evangelists. He states the matter thus: The Sadducees tell Jesus of a woman who married seven times, and ask whose wife of the seven she would be in the resurrection. After Jesus had replied, some of the scribes remarked, “Master, thou hast well said,” and Luke adds, “after that they durst not ask him any question.” Which is right would be hard to say. Only one can be so. Matt., xxvi., 6, &c.; Mark, xiv., John, xii., 1, &c. 3, &c. John places this anointing in the Matthew and Mark say that Jesus house of Lazarus, and says the was banqueting in the house of woman’s name was Mary, who took a Simon the Leper, when a woman pound of spikenard for the came and anointed him with purpose. spikenard. There cannot be a doubt that all these refer to the same event or tradition. It was just prior to the “entry into Jerusalem” which brought about the trial and condemnation. It is wholly incredible that this anointing with spikenard should have been done twice at about the same time. Matt., xxvi., 34. Mark, xiv., 30. Jesus said to Simon Peter: Jesus said: “Verily I say unto “Verily I say unto thee that this thee that this day, even in this night _before the cock crow_, night, before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.” _twice_, thou shalt deny me thrice.” See also Luke, xxii., 34; and John xiii., 38. Matt., xxvi., 73. John, xviii., 26. Matthew describes the third John says it was not “they that “denial” thus: “After a while stood by,” but “one of the came _they that stood by_ and servants of the High Priest, said to Peter, surely thou art whose ear Peter [had] cut off.” one of them, for thy speech This servant said, “Did not I see bewrayeth thee.” thee in the garden with him,” and not that “thy speech bewrayeth Mark and Luke give substantially thee.” the same account. Matt, xxvi., 74. Mark xiv., 68–72.