Some time after the sermon in the mount, when the time came that he should be received, that is, when the time of a feast came that he should be received by the _Jews_, he set his face to go to _Jerusalem_: and as he went with his disciples in the way, when the _Samaritans_ in his passage thro' _Samaria_ had denied him lodgings, and a certain Scribe said unto him, _Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest_, Jesus _said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head_, Matth. viii. 19. Luke ix. 51, 57. The Scribe told _Christ_ he would bear him company in his journey, and _Christ_ replied that he wanted a lodging. Now this feast I take to be the feast of Tabernacles, because soon after I find _Christ_ and his Apostles on the sea of _Tiberias_ in a storm so great, that the ship was covered with water and in danger of sinking, till _Christ rebuked the winds and the sea_, Matth. viii. 23. For this storm shews that winter was now come on. After this _Christ_ did many miracles, and _went about all the cities and villages of _Galilee_, teaching in their Synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness, and every disease among the people_, Matth. ix. he then sent forth the twelve to do the like, _Matth._ x. and at length when he had received a message from _John_, and answered it, he said to the multitudes, _From the days of _John_ the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence_; and upbraided the cities, _Chorazin_, _Bethsaida_, and _Capernaum_, wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not, _Matth._ xi. Which several passages shew, that from the imprisonment of _John_ till now there had been a considerable length of time: the winter was now past, and the next Passover was at hand; for immediately after this, _Matthew_, in chap. xii. subjoins, that _Jesus went on the sabbath-day thro' the corn, and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat,--rubbing them_, saith _Luke_, _in their hands_: the corn therefore was not only in the ear, but ripe; and consequently the Passover, in which the first-fruits were always offered before the harvest, was now come or past. _Luke_ calls this sabbath [Greek: deuteroproton], the second prime sabbath, that is, the second of the two great feasts of the Passover. As we call _Easter_ day high _Easter_, and its _octave_ low _Easter_ or _Lowsunday_: so _Luke_ calls the feast on the seventh day of the unlevened bread, the second of the two prime sabbaths.