PLAIN A COMMENTARY ON The Four Holy Gospels, INTENDED CHIEFLY VOL. I.-PART II. ST. MATTHEW. CHAPTERS XIV,-XXVIII. ASK FOR THE OLD PATHS, WHERE IS THE GOOD WAY, AND WALK JEREMIAH VI. 16. GRANT, O LORD, THAT IN READING THY WORD, I MAY NEVER Bishop Wilson. LONDON, JOHN HENRY PARKER. M DCCC LV. A PLAIN COMMENTARY ON THE FOURTEENTH CHAPTER OF St. Matthew's Gospel. 1 Herod's opinion of CHRIST. 3 Wherefore John Baptist was beheaded. 13 JESUS departeth into a desert place: 15 where He feedeth five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes. 22 He walketh on the sea to His Disciples: 34 and landing at Gennesaret, healeth the sick by the touch of the hem of His gar ment. XIV. AT that time Herod the tetrarch 1 heard of the fame of JESUS, and said unto 2 his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him. At the "time" alluded to, our SAVIOUR was performing His third great Ministerial Circuit of Galilee; and the fame of His Miracles is found to have reached the ears of the Tetrarch. Herod had very recently been guilty of the murder of St. John Baptist,-under circumstances which the Evangelist proceeds to relate, but which will be found more fully given in St. Mark's Gospel, chap. vi. 17 to 29. That one who professed to disbelieve in the Resurrection, and the wonders |