[Mrs. Ghosn-el-Howie, a resident of Syria, in S. S. Times.] " AND it came to pass about eight days after these sayings." Luke 9:28. In Mark 9 it says, "After six days," that is, after the happenings described in Matthew 16:13–28. The Latin New-year's day is thirteen days earlier¹ than the Greeks', and the Syrians date their letters, documents, etc., in accordance with either reckoning; but the major part of the people do not wait to think, and can give you no exact answer as to how the thirteen days are to be reckoned, and yet the matter gives them no trouble. A friend left us on Sunday, and said he would return "after three days." This may mean that he would return on Thursday after an absence of three clear days, but he may return on Tuesday. In that case, the day of going and the day of return would be counted to make up the three days. It would be possible to understand Mark's "six days" as clear days, while Luke adds the day on which "these sayings" finished and the day on which they started for the mount, and so he got his eight days.