[422] Luke iii. 23. [423] Numb. iv. 3. [424] Matt. xxi. 12 sqq. [425] Zech. xiv. 21 runs in the Targum translation: "Every vessel in Jerusalem will be consecrated to the Lord, &c., and at that time there will no longer be shopkeepers in the House of the Lord." In this there may have been a further inducement for the Evangelists to state that Jesus chases the tradesmen from the Temple. [426] 2 Sam. xvii. 23; cf. also Zech. xi. 12 sq.; Psa. xli. 10. [427] Gfrörer, "Jahr. d. Heils," ii. 318 sqq. [428] Cf. 1 Cor. x. 1 sq. [429] 2 Kings iv. 19 sqq. [430] Numb. i. 44; Jos. iii. 12; iv. 1 sqq. Cf. "Petrus-legende," 51 sq. [431] Cf. p. 127, note. [432] Josephus, "Antiq.," iv. 8, 48; Philo, "Vita Mos.," iii. [433] 2 Kings ii. 11. [434] E.g. also the account of the arrest of Jesus (Matt. xxvi. 51 sqq.) cf. 2 Kings vi. 10-22. [435] Matt. ix. 11 sq., xii. 8 sq., xv. 1 sqq., 11 and 20, xxviii. 18. [436] Psa. cxlvi. 7. [437] Bereshith Rabba zu Gen. xli. 1. [438] Cf. esp. Acts xi. 2 sqq. [439] Matt. v. 17 sqq. [440] Id. viii. 11 sqq., x. 5, xxiii. 34 sqq., xxviii. 19 sqq. [441] Cf. Lützelberger, "Jesus, was er war und wollte," 1842, 16 sqq. [442] Cf. above, 59 sqq. [443] It is given as a reason for his appearing first in Galilee that the Galileans were first led into exile, and so should first be comforted, as all divine action conforms to the law of requital (Gfrörer, "Jahr. d. Heils," 230 sq. Cf. also Isa. viii. 23). [444] Cf. above, 173 sq. [445] See above, 171. [446] Exod. xvi. 17 sqq.; Numb. xxi. 1 sqq.; Exod. vii. 17 sqq. 1 Kings xvii. 5 sqq. [447] "Hist.," iv. 81. [448] "Vespasian," vii. [449] lxvi. 8. [450] Isa. 1. 6 sq. [451] Zech. xii 10. [452] Cf. "Petruslegende," 24. [453] Gen. xxvi. 6; cf. also Tertullian, "Adv. Jud.," 10. [454] Cf. for this Brandt, "Die Evangelische Geschichte," esp. 53 sqq. Even such a cautious investigator as Gfrörer confesses that, after his searching examination of the historical content of the Synoptics, he is obliged to close "with the sad admission" that their testimony does not give sufficient assurance to enable us to pronounce anything they contain to be true, so far as they are concerned, with a good historical conscience. "In this it is by no means asserted that many may not think their views correct, but only that we cannot rely on them sufficiently to rest a technically correct proof on them alone. They tell us too many things which are purely legendary, and too many others which are at least suspicious, for a prudent historian to feel justified in a construction based on their word alone. This admission may be disagreeable--it is also unpleasant to me--but it is genuine, and it is demanded by the rules which hold everywhere before a good tribunal, and in the sphere of history" ("Die hl. Sage," 1838, ii. 243).