It is, however, a separate question

It is, however, a separate question whether in fact the chapters exhibit a practice which is reducible to no other principle than that of strict chronological order of narrative. First, then, it must be asked whether it is true that certain events are narrated in a way only explicable on the hypothesis that such a rigid principle of chronological order is followed that what might have suggested itself as a natural order of narrative is sacrificed to it; and secondly, whether, when the account of other events gives reasons for thinking that these may have been narrated out of chronological sequence, these reasons should be rejected out of hand.