St. _John_ wrote his Gospel many Years after the other _Evangelists_: What then should have been his peculiar Business? Certainly nothing more, than to add some remarkable Passages of Life, to _Jesus_'s Honour, which they had omitted; and to confirm the Truths which they had before reported of him. But St. _John_ is so far from doing this, that the Stories, he has particularly added, are not only derogatory to the Honour of _Jesus_, but spoil his Fame for a Worker of Miracles, which the other _Evangelists_ would raise him to. By reading the other _Evangelists_, one would think, that _Jesus_ was a Healer of all manner of Diseases, however incurable by Art and Nature, and that where-ever he came, all the sick and the maim'd (excepting a few Infidels) were perfectly cured by him. But this Story before us will be like a Demonstration, that _Jesus_ was no such Worker of Miracles and Healer of Diseases, as he is commonly believed to have been; and that he wrought not near the Number of Cures, he is supposed to have done, much less any great ones. The best Conception that an impartial Reader of the Gospel can form of _Jesus_, is, that he was a tolerable good natural _Orator_, and could handsomely harangue the People off hand, and was according to the Philosophy of the Times, a good _Cabalist_; and his Admirers finding him endewed with the Gift of Utterance, which was thought by them more than human, they fancy'd he must have the Gift of healing too, and would have him to exercise it; which he did with Success, upon the Fancies and Imaginations of many, who magnified his divine Power for it. And the Apostles afterwards, to help forward the Credulity and Delusion of the People, amplified his Fame with extravagant Assertions and strange Stories of Miracles, passing the Belief of considerate and wise Men. Whether this Representation of the Case, according to the _Letter_ of the Gospels, be false and improbable, let my _Readers_ judge by the Story before us, which I come now to dissect, and make a particular Examination into the several Parts of it. Accordingly it is to be observ'd