Matthew, iii.

“For Matthew the apostle ... declares that John, when preparing the way for Christ, said to them who were boasting of their relationship according to the flesh, &c., ’O generation of vipers, who hath shown you to flee from ... raise up children unto Abraham.’ (iii. 9, 1.)

    “As John the Baptist says, ’For God is able from these stones to
    raise up children unto Abraham.’” (iv. 7, 2.)

There are no less than six quotations or references to the ninth and tenth verses of this chapter, viz., iv. 24, 2; v. 34, 1; iv. 8, 3; iv. 36, 4; v. 17, 4.

“Now who this Lord is that brings such a day about, John the Baptist points out when he says of Christ, ’He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire, having His fan in His hand,’” &c. (iv. 4, 3.)

    “Having a fan in His hands, and cleansing His floor, and gathering
    the wheat,’” &c. (iv. 33, 1.)

    “Who gathers the wheat into His barn, but will burn up the chaff
    with fire unquenchable.” (iv. 33, ll.)

    “Then, speaking of His baptism, Matthew says, ’The heavens were
    opened, and He saw the Spirit of God,’” &c. (iii. 9, 3.)

Mark, i.

    “Wherefore Mark also says, ’The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus
    Christ the Son of God, as it is written in the prophets.’” (iii. 16,
    3.)

    “Yea, even the demons exclaimed, on beholding the Son, ’We know Thee
    who Thou art, the Holy One of God.’” (iv. 6, 6.)

Mark iv. 28.

    “His Word, through whom the wood fructifies, and the fountains gush
    forth, and the earth gives ’first the blade, then the ear, then the
    full corn in the ear.’” (iv. 18, 4.)

Luke, i.

“Thus also does Luke, without respect of persons, deliver to us what he had learned from them, as he has himself testified, saying, ’Even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the Word.’” (iii. 14, 2.)

Another reference to same in preface to Book iv.

“Luke, also, the follower and disciple of the Apostles, referring to Zacharias and Elizabeth, from whom, according to promise, John was born, says, ’And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless,’”, &c. (iii. 10, 1.)

    “And again, speaking of Zacharias, ’And it came to pass, that while
    he executed the priest’s office,’” &c. (Ibid.)

    “And then, speaking of John, he (the angel) says:  ’For he shall be
    great in the sight of the Lord,’” &c. (Ibid.)

    “In the spirit and power of Elias.” (iii. 10, 6.)

    “Truly it was by Him of whom Gabriel was the angel who also
    announced the glad tidings of His birth ... in the spirit and power
    of Elias.” (iii. 11, 4.)