37-viii.

12--the greater part of which is clearly descriptive of what happened at the Feast of Tabernacles--for her Pentecostal lesson: and judged it expedient, besides omitting as inappropriate to the occasion the incident of the woman taken in adultery, to ignore also the three preceding verses;--making the severance begin, in fact, as far back as the end of ch.vii.52.The reason for this is plain.

In this way the allusion to a certain departure at night, and return early next morning (St.John vii.

53: viii.

1), was avoided, which entirely marred the effect of the lection as the history of a day of great and special solemnity,--'the great day of the Feast.' And thus it happens that the gospel for the day of Pentecost was made to proceed directly from 'Search and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet,' in ch.