amount of reason or tradition that can be brought to bear on the point. If the details of a fact differ in one gospel account from those of another, and if even the series of facts differ in the different Evangelists, we must recall the principle that no gospel claims to give a full account of the Life of Jesus, or to tell all that is true. With this principle before our eyes, it cannot be hard to reconcile all seeming divergences of the gospels. It is true that in the Synoptic gospels the whole