Excerpt from The Gospels of Matthew and Luke: A Vindication of Their Agreement and Accuracy as to Certain Dates and Order of Events; Especially of the Marginal Chronology, the Fifteenth Year of Tiberius Caesar, the Case of Cyrenius, the Visit of the Magi, the Flight Into Egypt and Return It must be said in justice to the publishers, that their correspondent is not quite right in his repre sentation of the margin. For the first appear ance and preaching of john are therein given as A. D. 26. That date and 27 for Christ's baptism are most generally accepted as best authenticated. The apparent jump is occasioned by an unnoted change in the basis of the chronological notation. The first dates were strictly in accord with but the later dates are based upon, and give the year of his life through which he was then passing, be ginning with his thirty-first year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.