1 a He sheweth that John Baptist was the first preacher of the Gospel.
1 ! The office, doctrine & life of John the Baptiste.
2 b In Greke, Angel, or Ambassadour.
3 c Take awaye all lettes, which might hinder Christ to come to you.
4 d He did bothe baptize & preache, but preached first, & after baptized, as appeareth by {Mat. 3, 1}: so that the ordre is here inuerted, which thing is commune in the Scriptures.
8 e He declareth that he is but the minister of the outwarde signe, and that it is Jesus Christ that giueth the force & vertue,
10 f This was done for the confirmacion of John, and them that stode bye.
11 g The Father beareth witnes that Christ is the verie Sonne of God,
13 h Christ wolde be tempted to persuad vs, that he wil helpe them that be tempted, {Ebr. 2,18}
14 i By the which Gospel he wil rule & reigne ouer all.
17 h To drawe them from perdicion.
17 ! Calleth the fishers.
22 l Whose doctrine was dead, & nothing fauoured of the spirit.
23 ! Christ healeth the man with the vncleane spirit.
25 m Christ wolde not suffer the father of lyes to beare witnes to the trueth.
27 n Thei referre the miracle to the kinde of doctrine, & so marueil at it, as a newe and strange thing, and do not consider the power of Christ, who is the autor of the one and the other.
29 ! He healeth Peters mother in law.
34 o Christ wolde not haue suche witnesses to preache him & his Gospel, so Paule was offended that the Pythonesse shulde testifie of him, {Act. 16, 18}
34 ! The deuils knowe him.
35 / Or, being yet night.
41 ! He clenseth the leper, and healeth the diuers others.
43 p Forbidding him to tell anie man, because as yet his time was not come to be knowen.
44 q It belonged to the Priest to knowe if a man were healed of the leprosie.
44 r To take all maner of excuse from them, & to condemne them of ingratitude.
45 f The preasse was so great, that he shulde haue bene thronged.