1st day, 2d day, 3d day, Sunday. The 1st watch, from sun-set to the 3d hour of the night. The 2d, or middle watch, from the 3d hour to the 6th. The day, reckoning from sun rise, and the night, from Tuesday. sun-set, were each divided 5th day, Wednesday. into 12 equal parts, called The Sd watch, or cock-crow The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, &c. 6th day, Friday, Hours. 7th, or Sabbath, Saturday. 4th day, ing, from the 6th to the 9th. The 4th, or morning watch, from the 9th hour to sun-rise. An Index TO THE NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY. The year before 6. 5. 4. 3. Luke, i. 26, 57. Luke, ii. 21. Mat. ii. 1, 12, 14, 16, 20. THE angel Gabriel appears to Zachary the priest, In the sixth month after John was conceived, the John the Baptist boru six months before Christ. On the eighth day after his nativity, he is circum- The wise men of the east bring presents to the Joseph flies into Egypt with the child Jesus, and Herod commands the infants in and about Beth- Herod dieth, and his son Archelaus is by Cæsar Jos. Ant. Christ, by God's appointment, is brought back out 21, 23. of Egypt into Nazareth. 26. 46. Jos. Ant. The First Year of the vulgar Christian Era begins By occasion of the Passover our Lord goes up Angustus dies, and Tiberius succeeds him. man governor. Towards the end of this year, Pontius Pilate is 27. Mat. iii. 1. 22. ¡he which shall baptize with the Holy Ghost. Mat.iii.13. Jesus entering upon the thirtieth year of his age, Joho, i. Mat iv. 1. Mark, i. 12 John sees it, and bears record that this is the Son Jesus, full of the Holy Ghost, returns from Jordan, Luke, iv.1, the devil. After this, our Lord returns into Galilee. John gives testimony to our Saviour, passing by Christ, at a marriage in Cana of Galilee, turneth The First Passover of Christ's public Ministry, Jesus cometh to Jerusalem at the time of the Pass- The Year after CHRIST The Seventh Age of the World. 30. John,ii.13. temple (understanding the temple of his body), and in 32. Mat. xiv. 15. Mark, vii. 35. Luke, ix. 12. John, vi. 1, 15. three days he will raise it np. Herod the tetrarch casteth John the Baptist into prison for reprehending his incest with his brother Philip's wife, and other evils done by him. Christ discovers himself to the woman of Samaria. He goes throughout all Galilee, teaching in the synagogues, and working miracles. Matthew called to be a disciple. The Second Passover of Christ's Ministry, John, v. 1, compared with iv. 3, 5, from which the Second Year of the Seventieth Week of Daniel begins. Jesus comes up to Jerusalem at the time of the feast, and heals on the sabbath-day a man that had an infirmity thirty-eight years, lying at the pool of Bethesada. He makes a most divine apology to the Jews that sought to kill him, because he said that God was his Father. Christ, out of the multitude of his disciples, chooseth twelve, whom he calleth apostles; namely, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, Simon called Zelote, Judas the brother of James, aud Judas Iscariot. Tothese our Saviour chiefly directs his discourse in that glorious, full, and admirable sermon on the mount. Jesus sends his twelve apostles by two and two to preach, and heal the sick. John the Baptist is beheaded in prison, by Herod's command. Jesus feeds five thousand men, besides women and children, with five barley loaves, and two little fishes. He refuses to be made a king. The Third Passover of Christ's Ministry, JOHN, Mat.xvii.1 |