41. The journey to Galilee.  Do John (iv. 1-4, 43-45) and Mark (i. 14 = Mt. iv. 12; Lk. iv. 14) report the same journey?  Both are journeys from the south introducing work in Galilee; yet the reasons given for the journey are different (compare Jn. iv. 1-3 with Mk. i. 14).  If the Pharisees had a hand in John’s “delivering up” (Mk. i. 14; comp.  Jos.  Ant. xviii. 5. 2), the same hostile movement may have impelled Jesus to leave Judea.  He may not have heard of John’s imprisonment until after his departure, or some time before he opened his new ministry in Galilee.  See GilbertLJ 173f.  AndLOL 176-182 argues against the identification.

42. The nobleman’s son (Jn. iv. 46-54).  Is this a doublet of Mt. viii. 5-13; Lk. vii. 2-10?  John differs from synoptics in the time, the place, the disease, the suppliant, his plea, and Jesus’ attitude.  Matthew and Mark differ from each other concerning the bearers of the centurion’s messages to Jesus.  John’s account is similar to synoptic superficially, but is probably not a doublet.  Compare Syro-Phoenician’s daughter (Mk. vii. 29f.).  See GilbertLJ 202; Meyer on John iv. 51-54; Plummer on Luke vii. 10.  WeissLX II. 45-51 identifies.  Read SandayHastBD II. 613.

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The Ministry in Galilee

43.  Read SandayHastBD II. 613-630; GilbertLJ 180-283.  Consult WeissLX II. 44 to III. 153; EdersLJM I. 472 to II. 125; BeysLJ II. 140-147,168-294.  See AndLOL 209-363 for discussion of details, and KeimJN III. 10 to IV. 346 for an illuminating, though not unprejudiced, topical treatment.

44.  Geographical notes. Capernaum.  The site is not clearly identified, two ruins on the NW of Sea of Galilee are rival claimants,—­Tell Hum and Khan Minyeh.  Tell Hum is advocated by Thomson, Land and Book, Central Pal. and Phoenicia (1882), 416-420; Khan Minyeh, by SmithHGHL 456, EnBib I. 696 ff.  Latter is probably correct.  See AndLOL 224-237.

Bethsaida.  The full name is Bethsaida Julias, located at entrance of Jordan into the Sea of Galilee.  SmithEnBib I. 565f., SmithHGHL 457f., shows that there is no need of the hypothesis of a second Bethsaida to meet the statement in Mk. vi. 45, or that in Jn. i. 44.  See also AndLOL 230-236.  Ewing HastBD I. 282f. renews the argument for two Bethsaidas.

Chorazin was probably the modern Kerazeh, about one mile N of Tell Hum, and back from the lake.  See SmithEnBib I. 751; SmithHGHL 456; AndLOL 237f.

45. The mountain of the sermon on the mount (Mt. v. 1; Lk. vi. 12) probably refers to the Galilean highlands as distinct from the shore of the lake.  More definite location is not possible.  See AndLOL 268f.; EdersLJM I. 524.  The traditional site, the Horns of Hattin, is a hill lying about seven miles SW from Khan Minyeh, which has near the top a level place (Lk. vi. 17) flanked by two low peaks or “horns.”