Mark vi. 9 “Money in the girdle,” changed into, “money in the girdles” (x. 9). Mark ix. 42: “A millstone were put on his neck,” changed to, “were hung about his neck” (xviii. 6). Mark x. 17: “Sell all thou hast;” Matt. xix. 21, “all thy possessions.” Mark xii. 30: “He took a woman;” Matt. xxii. 25, “he married.” But if it be evident that the author of St. Matthew’s Gospel laid under contribution the material used by St. Mark, it is also clear that he did not use St. Mark’s Gospel as it stands. He had the fragmentary memorabilia of which it was made up, or a large number of them, but unarranged. He sorted them and wove them in with the “Logia” written by St. Matthew, and _afterwards_, independently, without knowledge, probably, of what had been done by the compiler of the first Gospel, St. Mark compiled his. Thus St. Matthew’s is the first Gospel in order of composition, though much of the material of St. Mark’s Gospel was written and in circulation first. This will appear when we see how independently of one another the compiler of St. Matthew and St. Mark arrange their “memorabilia.” It is unnecessary to do more to illustrate this than to take the contents of Matt. iv.—xiii. According to St. Matthew, after the Sermon on the Mount, Christ heals the leper, then enters Capernaum, where he receives the prayer of the centurion, and forthwith enters into Peter’s house, where he cures the mother‐in‐law, and the same night crosses the sea. But according to St. Mark, Christ cast out the unclean spirit in the synagogue at Capernaum, then healed Peter’s wife’s mother, and, not the same night but long after, crossed the sea. On his return he went through the villages preaching, and then healed the leper. The accounts are the same, but the order is altogether different. The deutero‐Matthew must have had the material used by Mark under his eye, for he adopts it into his narrative; but he cannot have had St. Mark’s Gospel, or he would not have so violently disturbed the order of events. The compiler has been guilty of an inaccuracy in the use of “Gergesenes” instead of Gadarenes. St. Mark is right. Gadara was situated near the river Hieromax, east of the Sea of Galilee, over against Scythopolis and Tiberias, and capital of Peraea. This agrees exactly with what is said in the Gospels of the miracle performed in the “country of the Gadarenes.” The swine rushed violently down a steep place and perished in the lake. Jesus had come from the N.W. shore of the Sea to Gadara in the S.E. But the country of the Gergesenes can hardly be the same as that of the Gadarenes. Gerasa, the capital, was on the Jabbok, some days’ journey distant from the lake. The deutero‐Matthew was therefore ignorant of the topography of the neighbourhood whence Levi, that is Matthew, was called.