"This man deprived Ananus [Annas] of the high priesthood, and appointed Ishmael, the son of Phabi, to be high priest. He also deprived him in a little time, and ordained Eleazer, the son of Ananus, who had been high priest before, to be high priest; which office, when he had held for a year, Gratus deprived him of it, and gave the high priesthood to Simon, the son of Camithus, and, when he had possessed the dignity no longer than a year, Joseph Caiaphas was made his successor" (Antiquities B. xviii, ch. ii, sec. 2). 90 Who was tetrarch of Abilene at this time? Luke: Lysanias (iii, 1). Lysanias was put to death at the instigation of Cleopatra sixty years before Jesus began his ministry. "She [Cleopatra] hurried Antony on perpetually to deprive others of their dominions, and give them to her; and as she went over Syria with him, she contrived to get it into her possession; so he slew Lysanias" (Josephus, Antiq., B. xv, ch. iv, sec. 1). At the time mentioned by Luke the territory of Abila, or Abilene, was no longer a tetrarchy. 91 Where was Jesus three days after he began his ministry? Synoptics: In the wilderness fasting (Matt. iv, 1; Mark i, 9-13; Luke iv, 1). John: At a wedding in Cana, feasting (i, ii). 92 Was he led, or driven by the spirit into the wilderness? Matthew and Luke: "Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness" (Matt. iv, 1; Luke iv, 1). Mark: "And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness" (i, 12). 93 When did the temptation take place? Mark: During the forty days' fast. "And he was there in the wilderness forty days tempted of Satan" (i, 13). Matthew: After the fast. "And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights ... the tempter came to him" (iv, 2, 3). 94 During the temptation the devil is said to have set him on the temple. On what part of the temple did he set him? Matthew and Luke: "On a pinnacle" (Matt. iv, 5; Luke iv, 9). The indefinite article "a" clearly implies that the temple had several pinnacles, whereas it had but one. After eighteen hundred years the Holy Ghost discovered his mistake and moved the Oxford revisers to substitute "the" for "a." 95 What did the devil next do? Matthew: "The devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world" (iv, 8). It must have been "an exceedingly high mountain" to have enabled him to see the kingdoms of the opposite hemisphere. 96 What did the devil propose? "All these things will I give thee [Jesus], if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (Matthew iv, 9). If Jesus was the Christ, and Christ was God, as claimed, who owned "these things," he or the devil? Think of a tramp offering you a quit-claim deed to your home for a meal. 97 Where did the devil take him first, to the temple, or to the mountain? Matthew: To the temple (iv, 5-8). Luke: To the mountain (iv, 5-9).