For Jesus himself testified This is a well-known difficulty. As in John 20:17, we have a reason assigned which seems to be the very opposite of what we should expect. This witness of Jesus would account for His notgoing into Galilee: how does it account for His going thither? It seems best to fall back on the old explanation of Origen, that by -his own country" is meant Judaea, -the home of the Prophets." Moreover, Judaea fits in with the circumstances. He had not only met with little honour in Judaea; He had been forced to retreat from it. No Apostle had been found there. The appeal to Judaea had in the main been a failure.

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