[39:4] John i. 35, 40.

[39:5] From the great minuteness of the statements in the passage, it has been conjectured that the evangelist himself was the second of the two disciples mentioned in John i. 35-37.

[39:6] John iii. 30.

[39:7] Matt. xix. 27.

[40:1] Mark i. 20.

[40:2] Luke xix. 2.

[40:3] Luke xix. 2.

[40:4] Mark ii. 15.

[40:5] John vii. 52.

[40:6] John xi. 16.  See also v. 8.

[41:1] John xx. 25.

[41:2] John xx. 28.

[41:3] Some writers have asserted that he is a different person from James “the Lord’s brother” mentioned Gal. i. 19, but the statement rests upon no solid foundation.  Compare John vii. 5; 1 Cor. xv. 7; Acts i. 14, xv. 2, 13.  See also note p. 38 [38:3] of this chapter.

[41:4] John i. 47.

[41:5] Mark v. 37, ix. 2; Matt. xxvi. 37.

[41:6] Acts xii. 2, 3.  “It is remarkable that, so far as we know, one of these inseparable brothers (James and John) was the first, and one the last, that died of the apostles.”—­Alexander on the Acts, i. 443.

[41:7] See Greswell’s “Dissertations,” vol. ii. p. 115.

[42:1] Matt. xx. 20, 21.

[42:2] Some writers have asserted that Philip and Nathanael were learned men, but of this there is no good evidence.  See Cave’s “Lives of the Apostles,” Philip and Bartholomew.

[42:3] Greswell makes it nine months.  See his “Harmonia Evangelica,” p. xxiv. xxvi.

[42:4] Matt. x. 5, 6.

[42:5] See Vitringa “De Synagoga Vetere,” p. 577, and Mosheim’s “Commentaries,” by Vidal, vol. i. 120-2, note.

[43:1] This is the calculation of Greswell.  “Harmonia Evangelica,” p. xxvi. xxxi.  Robinson makes the interval considerably shorter.  See his “Harmony of the Four Gospels in Greek.”

[43:2] They received new powers at the close of their first missionary excursion.  See Luke x. 19.

[43:3] Selden in his treatise “De Synedriis” supplies some curious information on this subject.  See lib. ii. cap. 9, Sec. 3.  See also some singular speculations respecting it in Baumgarten’s “Theologischer Commentar zum Pentateuch,” i. 153, 351.  Some of the fathers speak of seventy-two disciples and of seventy-two nations and tongues.  See Stieren’s “Irenaeus,” i. p. 544, note, and Epiphanius, tom. i. p. 50, Edit.  Coloniae, 1682; compared with Greswell’s “Dissertations,” ii. p. 7.

[43:4] Gen. x. 32.

[44:1] The following tabular view of the names of the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, mentioned in the 10th chapter of Genesis, will illustrate this statement:—­