Thus have we, in the Gospels of _Matthew_ and _John_ compared together, the history of _Christ_'s actions in continual order during five Passovers. _John_ is more distinct in the beginning and end; _Matthew_ in the middle: what either omits, the other supplies. The first Passover was between the baptism of _Christ_ and the imprisonment of _John, John_ ii. 13. the second within four months after the imprisonment of _John_, and _Christ_'s beginning to preach in _Galilee_, _John_ iv. 35. and therefore it was either that feast to which _Jesus_ went up, when the Scribe desired to follow him, _Matth._ viii. 19. _Luke_ ix. 51, 57. or the feast before it. The third was the next feast after it, when the corn was eared and ripe, _Matth_, xii. 1. _Luke_ vi. 1. The fourth was that which was nigh at hand when _Christ_ wrought the miracle of the five loaves, _Matth_. xiv. 15. _John_ vi. 4, 5. and the fifth was that in which _Christ_ suffered, _Matth._ xx. 17. _John_ xii. 1. Between the first and second Passover _John_ and _Christ_ baptized together, till the imprisonment of _John_, which was four months before the second. Then _Christ_ began to preach, and call his disciples; and after he had instructed them a year, lent them to preach in the cities of the _Jews_: at the same time _John_ hearing of the fame of _Christ_, sent to him to know who he was. At the third, the chief Priests began to consult about the death of _Christ_. A little before the fourth, the twelve after they had preached a year in all the cities, returned to _Christ_; and at the same time _Herod_ beheaded _John_ in prison, after he had been in prison two years and a quarter: and thereupon _Christ_ fled into the desart for fear of _Herod_. The fourth _Christ_ went not up to _Jerusalem_ for fear of the _Jews_, who at the Passover before had consulted his death, and because his time was not yet come. Thenceforward therefore till the feast of Tabernacles he walked in _Galilee_, and that secretly for fear of _Herod_: and after the feast of Tabernacles he returned no more into _Galilee_, but sometimes was at _Jerusalem_, and sometimes retired beyond _Jordan_, or to the city _Ephraim_ by the wilderness, till the Passover in which he was betrayed, apprehended, and crucified.