The events of the Passion have been detailed at some length, with the object of showing that the accounts in the four Gospels do not disagree as a whole with one another, and that the close proximity of the sites fits with the limited time that elapsed between the first trial in the Prætorium and the Crucifixion of our Lord. Like the early Christians, we must be content with a very general idea of the localities; and as regards the “new sepulchre,” we must “let the dead bury their dead.” FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER VII [286] Neubauer, “Géog. du Talmud,” 1868, p. 142, quotes Tal. Jer., _Sanhed._, ii. 2 (“et dans d’autres passages”), for the doctors seated on the steps to teach. Luke ii. 46–50. [287] The tables (_Sheḳ._, vi. 45); the seats (_Sukkah_, iv. 1); the boxes (_Sheḳ._, iii. 2); and the stalls (Tal. Bab., _Aboda Zara_, 8 _b._; _Rosh hash-Shanah_, 31 _a_). Matt. xxi. 12; Mark xi. 16; Luke xix. 45, xxi. 1; John ii. 14, x. 23; Josephus, “Ant.” XX. ix. 7; “Wars,” V. v. 1; Acts iii. 2. [288] Matt. xxiii. 37, xxiv. 1–2; Mark xiii. 1–2; Luke xxi. 1–5. [289] John v. 2–4, ix. 7. The “tower of Siloam” (Luke xiii. 4) was probably one of those on the city wall near the pool. [290] Bordeaux Pilgrim (333 A. D.); Eucherius (_c._ 427–40 A. D.); Onomasticon, s.v. _Bethesda_. [291] See Derenbourg, “Palestine,” 1867, p. 465; Mishnah, _Middoth_, iv. 7, and _Seder Olam_, and Tal. Bab., _Aboda Zara_, 8 _b_, _Rosh hash-Shanah_, 31 _a_, are quoted by Derenbourg. [292] _Ḥanuioth_, see Gesenius, “Lex.,” Jer. xxxvii. 16; _Ḥanuth_ in Tal. Bab., _Rosh hash-Shanah_, 31 _a_, in the singular; Josephus, “Wars,” V., iv. 2, vi. 3. [293] Josephus, “Wars,” II. xvii. 6. [294] Mark xv. 25; John xix. 14. [295] Mark xv. 16; John xviii. 28, xix. 9, 13; Josephus, “Wars,” II. xv. 5, V. v. 8; Acts xii. 10, xxi. 31, 37, 40. [296] Matt. xxvi. 59. [297] John xviii. 19. [298] _Sanhed._, i. 5, v. 2, x. 4. [299] _Ibid._, vii. 5. [300] Luke xxii. 61. [301] Matt. xxvi. 74, xxvii. 1; Mark xiv. 72, xv. 1; Luke xxii. 66, xxiii. 1; John xviii. 27, 28. [302] Luke xxiii. 6–12. [303] Matt. xxviii. 11; John xix. 20, 41; Heb. xiii. 12. [304] Matt. xxvii. 32, 39; Mark xv. 21, 29; Luke xxiii. 26, 49. [305] Acts vii. 58. [306] Mishnah, _Sanhed._, vi. 4. [307] _Ibid._, vi. 1–4. [308] Deut. xxii. 24; John xix. 41. [309] Josephus, “Wars,” V. ii. 2; Jer. xxxi. 39. [310] Mejîr ed Dîn (_c._ 1521 A. D.). [311] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., 1883, pp. 428–35. [312] Prof. T. Hayter Lewis, “Holy Places of Jerusalem,” 1888, p. 113. [313] John xix. 41, 42. [314] See _Pal. Expl. Fund Quarterly_, April, 1890, p. 69. [315] “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., p. 385. [316] “Citez de Jhérusalem,” after 1187 A. D. [317] See “Ord. Survey Notes,” plate xxv., for the tomb of Helena of Adiabene; “Mem. West Pal. Survey,” Jerusalem vol., p. 433, for plan of the tomb in question.