44, 45, v.

1, and following.] [Footnote 14: The woman who anoints his feet, Zaccheus, the penitent thief, the parable of the Pharisee and the publican, and the prodigal son.] [Footnote 15: For example, Mary of Bethany is represented by him as a sinner who becomes converted.] [Footnote 16: Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, the bloody sweat, the meeting of the holy women, the penitent thief, &c.

The speech to the women of Jerusalem (xxiii.

28, 29) could scarcely have been conceived except after the siege of the year 70.] A great reserve was naturally enforced in presence of a document of this nature.

It would have been as uncritical to neglect it as to employ it without discernment.