Each one had gone to his home: but the homeless One had repaired to the Mount of Olives.

In other words, the paragraph under discussion is found to be an integral part of the immediately antecedent narrative: proves to be a fragment of what is universally admitted to be genuine Scripture.

By consequence, itself must needs be genuine also[577].
It is vain for any one to remind us that these two verses are in the same predicament as those which follow: are as ill supported by MS.
evidence as the other ten: and must therefore share the same fate as the rest.

The statement is incorrect, to begin with; as shall presently be shewn.

But, what is even better deserving of attention, since confessedly these twelve verses are either to stand or else to fall together, it must be candidly admitted that whatever begets a suspicion that certain of them, at all events, must needs be genuine, throws real doubt on the justice of the sentence of condemnation which has been passed in a lump upon all the rest.
I proceed to call attention to another inconvenient circumstance which some Critics in their eagerness have overlooked.
The reader will bear in mind that--contending, as I do, that the entire Pericope under discussion is genuine Scripture which has been forcibly wrenched away from its lawful context,--I began by examining the upper extremity, with a view to ascertaining whether it bore any traces of being a fractured edge.