The Parts have been divided into sections, the extent of which has been determined by the unity of the event or discourse. In other words, a new section is made to begin where there is reason to believe that the gospel writer himself intended to pass to a new subject. In the few instances in which the synoptists disagree among themselves as to the limits of the section, we have followed that writer who makes a division where the other makes none. 3. In respect to the order of sections, our practice