Matthew 19:1-12

CHRONOLOGY. Shortly after the discourse recorded in chap. 18 our Lord finally left Galilee, passing toward Jerusalem. This chapter (comp. Mark 10) takes up the history after an interval of some length, omitting a number of events which are recorded by Luke and John. Intervening occurrences (Robinson): the sending out of the Seventy (Luke 10:1-16); the final departure from Galilee, passing through Samaria (Luke 9:51-56; John 7:2-10); the healing of the ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19); the public teaching of Jesus at the feast of Tabernacles (John 7:11-53); the account of the woman taken in adultery (John 8:1); the reproof of the unbelieving Jews, and the escape from their hands (John 8:12-59); the instruction of the lawyer, and the parable of the good Samaritan (Luke 10:28-37); the incidents in the house of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42); the return of the Seventy (Luke 10:17-24), which should probably be placed earlier; then in regular order the events narrated in John 11; ‘Ephraim' (John 11:54) being in Perea, and this chapter taking up the history at that point Lange, without sufficient reason, refers Matthew 19:1-2, to a previous journey along the borders between Samaria and Perea. At all events Matthew 19:3 belongs to the visit to Perea just before the last Passover.