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 228 Page 118. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Resch, 58.

Page 120. Signs of the times. For these, see Drummond, Jewish Messiah.

Page 123. Jesus Bar Abbas. The earliest MSS. of the Gospels give this as the full form of Barabbas' name, and it is necessary to remember this as a clue to the scene at the Prætorium. See p. 198. Though ordinarily spoken of as a robber, it is clear from Mark xv. 7 that Barabbas had been concerned in some insurrection against the Romans.

Page 125. Maccabee. The ordinary etymology of this word is from the Hebrew for "hammer." Cf. Charles Martel.

Page 127. Hosanna Barabba. Some of the Apocryphal Gospels give this in the Aramaic form.

Page 142. Street of the Bakers. Mentioned in Jeremiah xxxvii. 21.

Page 147. Jochanan ben Zaccai. If the ordinary date given for Hillel be correct, Jochanan would have been the chief Rabbi of the time of Jesus.

Page 163. Peter, of whom. An addition in Tatian's Diatessaron, recently discovered. Whether authentic or not, it clearly shows that the early Christians felt a need of explanation with regard to Jesus' seemingly unpatriotic acquiescence in paying tribute to Rome. It is at any rate clear that it was this incident that set the common people against Jesus, and enabled the sacerdotal party to compass his death.

Page 169. Passover lamb to be killed. I have adopted Chwolson's ingenious explanation of the discrepancy between John and the Synoptics in his treatise Das Passahmahl Christi, 1893.

Page 171. Moon, which was near its full. We know that the moon must have been full at this date, since the Hebrew months are lunar ones.

Page 172. Priestly Sanhedrim. Derenbourg has