All this time _Matthew_ passeth over in few words, and here begins to relate the preaching and miracles of _Christ_. _When _Jesus__, saith he, _had heard that _John_ was cast into prison, he departed into _Galilee_; and leaving _Nazareth_, he came and dwelt at _Capernaum_, and from that time began to preach and say, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand_, Matth. iv. 12. Afterwards he called his disciples _Peter_, _Andrew_, _James_ and _John_; and then _went about all_ Galilee, _teaching in the Synagogues,--and healing all manner of sickness:--and his fame went thro'out all _Syria_; and they brought unto him all sick people,--and there followed him great multitudes of people from _Galilee_, and from _Decapolis_, and from _Jerusalem_, and from _Judea_, and from beyond _Jordan__, Matth, iv. 18, 25. All this was done before the sermon in the mount: and therefore we may certainly reckon that the second Passover was past before the preaching of that sermon. The multitudes that followed him from _Jerusalem_ and _Judea_, shew that he had lately been there at the feast. The sermon in the mount was made when great multitudes came to him from all places, and followed him in the open fields; which is an argument of the summer-season: and in this sermon he pointed at the lilies of the field then in the flower before the eyes of his auditors. _Consider_, saith he, _the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet _Solomon_ in all his glory was not arayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven_, &c. _Matth._ vi. 28. So therefore the grass of the field was now in the flower, and by consequence the month of _March_ with the Passover was past. Let us see therefore how the rest of the feasts follow in order in _Matthew_'s Gospel: for he was an eye-witness of what he relates, and so tells all things in due order of time, which _Mark_ and _Luke_ do not.