His earthly life covered a period of thirty-three years; and of these but three were spent by Him as an acknowledged Teacher openly engaged in the activities of public ministry.
I said, in my last sermon, that we were approaching the end of our Lord's public ministry.
So it becomes the suitable close to the records of our Lord's public ministry,--the right preface to those private interviews of which St. John is the only historian.
Footnote a: Notice that this was the last occurrence in the Saviour's public ministry, except the trial and the crucifixion.
Two other great groups will occur hereafter, one group given in Luke only, and the last group during the last week of our Lord's public ministry.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "public ministry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
