A LEPER IS CLEANSED

St Mark 1:40-44; where this incident is placed in the course of a Galilæan circuit, and before the return to Capernaum. St Luke 5:12, where the cure is placed ἐν μιᾷ τῶν πόλεων, and precedes the Sermon on the Mount. With these discrepancies which meet us at every turn in the Gospels, it appears to be a hopeless task to construct a chronological arrangement of our Lord’s ministry. On the other hand such divergences of plan form the strongest evidence of the independence of the narratives.

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