The result is just what might have been anticipated.

The first two of the verses which it is the fashion to brand with ignominy were found to carry on their front clear evidence that they are genuine Scripture.

How then about the other extremity?
Note, that in the oracular Codexes B and [Symbol: Aleph] immediate transition is made from the words 'out of Galilee ariseth no prophet,' in ch.vii.5a, to the words 'Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying,' in ch.viii.12.And we are invited by all the adverse Critics alike to believe that so the place stood in the inspired autograph of the Evangelist.
But the thing is incredible.

Look back at what is contained between ch.
vii.

37 and 5a, and note--( _a_) That two hostile parties crowded the Temple courts (ver.