I should place the journey of the Apostles to Galilee in the subsequent week. This change would do the Apostles good in many ways. It would relieve the strain on their minds, and was medicine for the shock they had received. For our Lord’s care for the physical and mental health of His followers, see text, p. 302, on the words, “Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a while.” During this stay in Galilee, there took place the appearance of our Lord on the mountain, which I take to be that named, 1 Cor. xv. 6 (see text, last chapter), and at this time I also place the important interview of our Lord with James, our Lord’s brother, 1 Cor. xv. 17, and probably with the rest of His brethren, see below. A.D. 30. _May._ The appearance at the sea of Tiberias (but see Mr Sanday on the “Authorship of the Fourth Gospel,” chap. xvii.) may have taken place in this month, as also the return of the Apostles from Galilee to Jerusalem with the women and Mary the Mother of Jesus, and the brethren of our Lord. The latter, possibly, had not been in Jerusalem at the Crucifixion, but had at last learned, perhaps through James, the fulness of their brother’s greatness. The Apostles as well as the relations of our Lord must have been enjoined to return to Jerusalem, or they would not without exception have gone thither. The Feast of Pentecost was not a sufficiently imperative call to account for their presence. This injunction must have been given in Galilee. If we had only St Luke’s account, we should suppose that the Apostles never left Jerusalem; but this would in itself be unlikely and is contradicted by the other Evangelists. The day given for the Ascension by Wieseler, “Chronologie des Apostolischen Zeitalters,” 1848, is May 18. The Ascension was followed by the choice of Matthias. The day of Pentecost, as fixed by Wieseler, was May 27, A.D. 30. INDEX OF TEXTS. GENESIS. iii. 18, 19; 44 xxviii. 12; 161 DEUTERONOMY. xviii. 15; 94 xix. 16; 396 18; 396 II SAMUEL. xii. 13; 420 JOB. xiii. 4; 396 PSALMS. cxix. 162; 232 PROVERBS. vi. 19; 396 xii. 17; 396 ISAIAH. vi. 10; 321 xi. 1; 160 JEREMIAH. vi. 31; 396 S. MATTHEW. iii. 5; 189 iv. 1; 117 1-11; 114 20; 186 vi. 25; 404 vii. 17; 259 viii. 19; 375 ix. 14-17; 220 36-38; 234 x. 2-6; 162 5-15; 290 xi. 2-6; 262 12; 232 21; 106 xii. 28; 83 30; 358 46; 180 xiii. 10; 321 xiv. 17; 22 23; 229 xvi. 13-20; 327 xvi. 22; 126 23; 329 24, 25; 340 xvii. 12; 348 25; 133 xviii. 1-11; 356 21; 469 21, 22; 358 xix. 6; 408 xxii. 42, 43; 415 xxiv. 24; 75 25; 413 xxv. 14-30; 316 xxviii. 16; 451 19; 250 xxviii. 20; 69