Beruflich Dokumente
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IN
"Sir,
we would
see Jesus."
John 12
21.
Copyright, 1907
By Charles
Scribner's Sons
TO
CHARLES
E.
TAYLOR
SOMETIME PRESIDENT OF
WAKE FOREST COLLEGE
PKEFACE
I
Jesus.
book on
can
tell
exhaustless.
Who
Each age
Indeed, each
man
re-
We
The
We know
well
more
of the times of
of the period.
is
The background
worked
out.
work
of Christ
now
We
are
It is still
the dominant
modern men.
This
little
There
is
no technical criticism of
own
inci-
conclusions on
dentally.
many
eight
points which
come out
The
chapters
were
delivered
as
popular lectures at a
summer Chautauqua
at Pertle
viii
PREFACE
composed
of
intelligent
body
of other
Christian
The assembly
It is
requested
the
may be
useful to
some who
in
full
sympathy
tell
life
summary now and then is necessary to the interpretation of that life. The attention is rather called to the movement and climacteric power in the career of Christ. The historic
forces of that
life
of
The
life
of Christ are
brought out
may
had with
If the
light.
The lumber
who
of
reader
may be
focussed on Christ,
human freedom in the most heroic of all conflicts. He won the freedom of the human spirit at the greatThe Gentiles can now indeed see est possible cost.
Jesus without throwing any preachers into a panic.
PREFACE
ix
The whole world can now see Christ, if forsooth men have eyes to see. " In the midst of you standeth one whom ye know not" (John 1 62).
:
have been
my
obligations to the
numerous
ing
my
Broadus
selves
have been
my
Louisville, Ky.,
September, 1907.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTEH
I.
PAGE
The The
II.
26
III.
51
IV.
76
V.
The
Twelve
^
. .
98
VI.
120
VII.
The Answer
of Jerusalem
145
VIII.
of Jesus
160
Index
191
EPOCHS
IN
THE LIFE
I
OF JESUS
CHAPTER
JESUS
well
my
beloved Son, in
whom
am
There
Jesus.
are
many ways
the
of approaching the
life
of
No
and
other theme
steady
is
has produced so
stream
flows
on.
books,
many The
knowledge of Jesus
the sciences.
And
so.
No
four
us
all
like to
know, nor,
Herein
of Jesus.
inexhaustibleness.
"The
of Jesus. 1
riches
of
Christ"
are
The Problem
He
is
a constant chal-
as so at
and
is
true to-day.
Men
have grappled
development.
Orderly
development has
been
found
human
Is
knowledge.
of
Nazareth ?
he the prodecclesiastical
and
No
connection
Buddha, or any
Judaism.
outside
of
Here
universal
and
hate.
Here
is
the
man who
laid
stress
on the
spiritual
religion in the
midst of teachers
who
all.
and cumin.
sinless
But
life
is
this is not
Here
is
in the face of
ever
Here
is
who put
God, according
Here
is
one
who who
and
men,
sin
come
to
him from
His perfect
life
and
be absurd claims.
The tremendous power of Jesus over the world commands respect, whatever the explanation. The men who are most loyal to Christ are just the men who have been foremost in the advancement of civiUzation and the uplift of the race. The nations
where the influence of Jesus
is
The
from
priestly
on philosophical grounds,
(following Pfleiderer), or
G. B. Foster
dis-
on
grounds by
Schmidt (following Bousset and Wrede), are reverent in their treatment of the person of Jesus, even
enthusiastic about his character.
"What
Israel,
think ye of Christ?"
He was
many
is
indeed set
and the
rising of
not only in
but in
all
the world.
He
that
the loadstone of
life.
human
Charles
every man's
if
Like
into
Lamb, we
all
feel
Jesus
came
Jesus
He
we come
then
is
all
we
have.
The
it
to see the
really
is.
4 In
this
we
seize the
main things
in their historto
ical
No
it.
possible.
view of
all
is
"greater than
Jonah"
see him.
Son
of
God.
Men
have not
al-
show Jesus
to those
who asked
to
Philip and
the
Sometimes
Our
theology
may become
is
not seen
when
the Gospel
read.
picture an absent
disciples instead of
Jesus.
The
and
search-light of
modern
historical investigation
Christ
environment.
We
We
can even go
We
can see
how each
of the Apostles
to our
apprehended Jesus,
knowledge of the
first
We
can see
how
they at
that
were dazthem,
by the great
gradually they
Light
bewildered
how
his
came
their
to
message
and
mission.
The
revolution
JESl.'S
miracle of
Christianity
It is
and
is
We
can-
struggle,
we
are
He
himself
fact,
life
and
it
puzzled and
dazed
all
around him.
it
His
when
To-day
whose body
lies
Christ
who
the right
hand
That
is
the
New
tri-
umphed
This
to
is
who
is
leadevil.
ing a victorious warfare against the hosts of the Saviour from sin
So, while
we study
together
who has spoken peace name we work to-day. the human conditions
of
historic
plain
all
that
is
and now.
But
let
6
2.
When
I
the boy
knows
is
the
Son
of
God
of other
men.
must be
in
my
Father's house?"
of divinity
But none
the less
is
that this
is
Who
some
has
can
tell
The boy
and
to
fill
the heart
life.
came conscious
idle
That
is
know that at twelve years of age Jesus is aware that God has laid his hand upon him. He is at home in the Father's
only
We
of the
person of Jesus
is
this incident.
By
lies
the side of
early
Messianic
in
consciousness
the
other
fact that
he grew
wisdom and
in stature.
He was
and an
that really
his father
The
loneliness of the
boy Jesus
presses one.
He was
so deep
in
was well-nigh
little, if
silly
Only once
He had
human
at his
work
is
Luke
is
he
whose introduction
so
historian Thucydides.
of the
Greek
said that he
had made
and
of
be accurate.
The stamp
its
simplicity
and
reality.
Mary
may
Luke
what
here narrated.
It is
some
but
to discount
about Jesus,
this is
Luke
is
the historian.
in passing
word
needed
so soon conscious
lies in
The explanation
is
the appeal
There
no vestige
of artificiality, of
We
drop out
What
larger
come
to
activity
God ?
grew
in favor with
God and
with men.
And no
in
wonder.
He combined
When
the
a sense
heart have so
much
to
make
her glad
or so
much
boy?
Was
We purposely
now.
The
scientific
temper
demands
it
to
know
has succeeded;
but
this
feeling of omniscience
scientific
spirit.
is
The
go no further, make
scientist to say
it
difficult
nature, even
ist,
if
God
real
does not
exist.
If
God
does ex-
there
is
no
difficulty
view.
Now Matthew
points of view;
of
Luke from
independent
Matthew from
therefore two
event, both of
that of Joseph.
sur-
vived.
Luke
a careful historian.
Gospel which
tell
The
very
first
is
introduction,
10
ble.
The
Mark
Rome
away from
He
passed as the
Syriac
The new
manu-
Matthew from
left.
The
text
its
it is
human
limits.
Jesus
is
Son
heaven before
who has
and ascension.
not mere
in
mind, but
fur-
John goes
He
is
God.
That
that this
and dwelt
among
existed
us.
The Son
of
venture to ask.
Jesus a real
after all
Was
it
a mere theophany?
How? I Was
man ?
Were
man ?
is
who held that Jesus only seemed to be a The proper interpretation of John's language
He
assumes
as well
known and
implies
it.
If
he were
he would not be
"God
just as great
if
we turn
to Paul.
woman, and
Gnosticism. He was a man according to Paul. But did Paul hold him to be God as John clearly believed ? He does not use the term God of Jesus unless we so punctuate Rom. 9 5, and read church of God (correct text)
thus disposes of Docetic
:
in
Acts 20
in
28.
But
:
in Col.
(as
H. Cor. 8
9 and Phil. 2
6.)
Paul so deelse
him nothing
but
12
God.
may
or
may
But the
is
real deity of
Jesus
is
whole matter.
He
the
New
Testament
is
and there
Indeed, the
Professor Briggs
(in
up the
Virgin Birth
is
to give
up the philosophical
basis for
One may
still
believe in
many
people.
sible to think of
except by the
whom God
And
even
if
The
heresy
is
of Nestorianism or
inevitable.
two persons
Christ
then
God
God and
Son
of
Man,
way
this
happen.
And, indeed,
That
problem
is
no more
difficult
the
problem
after
all.
The
13
So
let
hills of
peace on earth to
of
men who
receive the
good pleasure
God.
I^et
us
fall
under the
ent mystery.
The
Child in the
new hope
has
felt
to every
mother
in the world,
new
Son
of
sins.
Zacharias and
They sang
the salhis feet,
Christian hymns.
vation of Israel.
The
wise
trying to
priest,
com-
But not
nor king,
of
Kingdom
God.
Who
is
Jesus then?
all
No
doctrine that
we can
word
in
frame meets
the facts.
The Kenosis
theories of
They multiply, not They fade away into dimChrist empty him?
Of what did
when he
left
14
Did
vine glory?
How much
of God's knowledge
and
man?
up
in
How
God
tie
himself
human
he had
with
human
limitations?
How
sin.
could
?
If
If the
it
true theologian
here,
must
about
ultimate
life,
things.
We do not
or man.
God
new
difficulties.
the subject of
God and man, we shall approach the God-Man with more confidence.
are sure that this sublime union of
At any
rate,
we
meet.
little
way here by
the
new emphasis on
We
of
God
of the Son.
The
a
news
came
going on
down by Jordan
He was
man
15
man
It
Jesus,
but
go to the desert.
the wilderness, a
habits,
of
Great-
It
was the
spirit
and power
He
Kingdom
Was
true?
The news
in
spread
till
all
Jerusalem and
to see
wind.
the
preachers and
teachers went also with the crowd to hear this mountain prophet,
some perhaps
to scoff
and
sneer.
It
He said common
But
sinners, publicans
As
this
if
we were
nor
Abraham!
lican,
in
Those
that repented he
rite
immersed
new
that he
himself.
while
16
Messiah.
He was
He was
-Spirit.
Messiah
Did Jesus
he
it.
tell
his
?
left
Nazareth
John
to recognize the
and eagerly
face.
He
not
sign
was he!
John had
not,
it
and
One, John
felt
afresh his
was
right
enough
John
to feel that
man and
The
on confession of
sin.
he had no sin to
JESUS 17
him from
the obligation to do
Let us never
for-
it
He
own example
he enjoined
to
it
baptism
in the
upon
all
his disciples.
his
all
He was
indeed in a symbolic
resurrection
way
also,
setting forth
but John in
point.
the Spirit of
God
in the
Jesus as he
came out
was
an august moment.
in celebrating
this event.
has
Some imagine
of of
that
now
became aware
the fact
that he
interpretation
test to
John
of the Messiahship.
was that
settled
it.
of
Some
Aeon or Emanation
of
18
was
this
Aeon Christ
that
was
divine,
His baptism
work.
Jesus was
now
He had crossed the Rubicon and there was no turning back. He had put his hand to this plow and he
must follow
It
it
to the
in deep.
of the
Holy
Let us
the
We may compare
Old Testament.
endowment
in the
in the Temptation.
The Gosfrom
pel writers
this narrative
Jesus himself.
He
met him
comes
as
it
often
young preacher.
Mark
Luke
Matthew and
The
Like a
Right-
wrongly
this
world as his
own.
and woe.
He had done much to make it a jungle of sin He felt that there could only be enmity
JESUS
19
The
Synoptic Gospels
baptism.
Every
new
the devil
We may
it
Most
mani-
proba})ly
difficult to
no more
making a
visible
all.
That
is
lem.
to
If there is
a real
spirit of evil
who has
ourselves
about the
rest.
It
would be comno
forting to believe, as
is
some
is
dead.
it
Certainly sin
is
not dead.
If
there
is
devil,
not complimentary to
man
to
make him
was
in the
realm of
tempta-
Mark
is
tempted
of the devil.
This
at first a
ably
it
God wished
it
Son
to
meet
all.
Not
20
that the devil would not try again, but the line for
future conflict would be clearly defined.
The
of the
devil has
an evident allusion
to the
approval
God had
is
it is
said.
Not
form
true,
and he says
" a son of
said.
of
But he suggests
to Jesus that
would be
said.
just
as well for
him
to test
That
would do no harm.
experience to
and,
ative
if
work
was a
subtle appeal.
Why
not
In a word, shall
That
is
real
character
at first concealed
and
difficult to see.
distrust of
God.
The Jews
great
They will often ask Jesus to do a sign, not merely work miracles, but some great portent in the heavens, for instance. The
spectacular
devil suggests that Jesus
accommodate himself
let
to
them
see
him come
2i
out of
down from the pinnacle of tlie temple, right heaven. They would hail him with acclaim.
to
be no mere performer of
tricks,
no
The
it.
devil
it
grows
as
some
In that also
he dared
now
had
as later whether he
was
to
planned.
Every preacher
in
It is so
fall in
with
over a great
height
afraid.
But the
He
appealed to the
ambition of Jesus.
the world.
He would
The
devil
He
together.
That would be
It
open war.
He
it
kingdoms
of the world
and
He
only asked
in return that
on the mountain.
bow down before him up here Nobody else was there, and it
of the facts of the case.
in his
The
devil did
22
power,
Roman
Empire,
for
instance.
Was
it
not better to
it
friends than
to fight
out?
He
Jesus,
Roman
this
Empire against
and,
if
who had no
disciples as yet,
em-
Kingdom
of Jesus.
In
to
fact,
world
on the
He knew
not
what
in that fashion.
He would
kingdom
of the world.
He would
did graft
much
of the world
on
Satan to go hence.
He
mo-
ment, but he will bide his time and wait for another
chance.
ning.
Death then
He must
men
before he
conflict
world
23
of Jesus.
is
It har-
in
the
In John, Jesus
repreis
work
for
God,
The
is
point to
note
is
given also
in the
Synoptic Gospels.
is
what
God.
siah
Jesus
the
Son
of
as addressed as
Mesfirst.
to
be Messiah at the
Just as John
That
tells
done by the
disciples of Jesus,
and consequent
hostility
of the Pharisees, so
same
reason.
The
collision
first
passover
made
it
plain
come
to
a focus at once
if
Jesus
in
Messiah or
The
Messianic re-
became a
necessity.
But
does not at
all
mean
24
finally
to think
he was the
alterna-
Those
that
we know of
There are
Jesus.-
no
fanatic,
latan.
as
knowing
he
Jesus goes on
Ac-
hood
7.
is
Have
a Peculiar In-
terest.
office,
and yet
in
a veiled form.
was
more than
In some
the jejune
passages
sides, the
that
positively
ridiculous.
Be-
He
is
Son
of
God
(Synoptic as well as
This
God and
received worship
JESUS 25
many words
dis-
of him.
And
yet
of
Man.
death.
He
It
for the
real
Messiah
identified
to
make
away
this claim.
And
Lamb
of
God
last
that taketh
The
time that the Baptist saw the Messiah he stood looking, rapt
"He
stand-
had
said,
"and ye know
him not."
And
that
is
CHAPTER
II
JESUS
1
:
(John
39).
We
was a
by what he
suffered.
He had
come
2:
to
Thus
to
(Heb.
gift or
an
be bought.
Already Jesus
The
came
to
work
for the
Kingdom
tion,
of
God.
few
spirits like
Simeon and
on,
Israel,
was
in
uncongenial
soil.
26
JESUS
27
of the
who would
hail the
Messiah with
joy.
He
easily.
He
Hope
of Israel.
implies
it
in alluding to the
Holy
Spirit descending
on him
(1
33).
we know, and
the
days.
the vision.
else
Lamb
of
God!
to
Naught
be seen.
1
:
"
(John
36).
identification.
this is
and
Son
of
God" (John
of
He saw
away
truly also
He
not,
is
"the
Lamb
God
that taketh
The
Baptist did
of the
Mes-
28
his
world.
2.
The
First
Disciples.
These
were
disciples
Andrew and probably John the who took the Baptist at his word and went with Jesus. It was a moment of great sigof
the
Baptist,
Evangelist,
Here
at least
was a beginning,
John
old
when an
man, but he
never forgot across the years the event nor the hour
of the day, time).
morning (Roman
first
They
of
many
like days.
The
first
leaven of the
Kingdom was
already at work.
tion of
text
To Andrew
to
moving
1:
win another.
The
is
correct
(John
the
first
thing that
Jesus,
for
Andrew
put
else.
first
communion with
He
He had no
It
time
aught
To
simply:
"We
was a
Simon
of
Could
it
be true ?
Jesus was taken with the man. He "looked upon him" with all the penetration of human nature so
characteristic of Christ,
He saw
in
Simon what
insta-
nobody
bility,
else
saw
indeed the
JESUS
the
29
but
saw
beyond
all
that
deeper
and
new name
did not
for
now deserve to be called a Rock, but he What Jesus did with Simon he does with every man. The most remarkable thing about Jesus is
will.
He
what he puts
into a
sees in him.
Thus
new
says:
up the world, by
that,
finding the
best thing in a
life
man, developing
and putting
Kingdom
of
God.
On
"Follow me."
It was a strange command. know Jesus. Why should he follow He may have been a disciple of the
Baptist, but at
saida, the
town
Andrew and
fact
Peter,
who
Avere
now
with Jesus.
of Jesus.
This
it is
So
to-day.
We
Besides, there
of Jesus.
was a tone
to
words
this
He seemed
it is
supreme service
of Philip.
Men
It will
be possible to win
men
to the
kingdom
also
of the devil.
was
stirred
30
is
Nathanael.
is
one.
Why
dom
eries.
not?
of
That
the normal
Kingsays.
God.
It
"We
Evp'^Kufiev.
was the
Not
gold, nor
covery of
whom Moses
write.
Simon.
He
of
thing
come out
Nazareth?" (John
tics,
43).
he
settled the
Philip
had
called
him "Jesus
of Nazareth, the
Son
of Joseph."
eth.
To
him.
Old Testa-
ment
Logic
after all
in.
One
only
came out
Nazareth.
trial.
patient.
He
asked a
"Come
and see."
The
claims of
experience
a scientific argument.
right there.
He knew what
come.
So he came
to
had already
31
whom
there
is
no guile."
Thus
and
it
is
Jesus.
"Whence knowest thou me"? It is the first time that Jesus exhibits to men supernatural knowledge.
Nathanael's scepticism vanishes before this personal
experience.
He
Son
of
God and
and
of
the
King
of Israel.
He
Son
Joseph."
Jesus
prophesies
greater
things
is
than
the
bond
and heaven.
The Man, as
angels
Christ
now
to
It is significant
to note
how
wards come
He
the
is
Son
Man,
of
King
of Israel,
the
3.
Lamb
The
God.
tried to get
First Miracle.
first
He
he was and
is
John the
say
we cannot
was expected
to
work miracles as a
mind.
matter of course.
difficulty to the
The
modern
They
ere-
32
But
is
modern approach
Son
of
he was
in reality
God,
it is
exercise the
power
of
God.
God
to us, we may not limit the expression The more real and spiritual God is, the less reason we have for denying his power in The suggestion for this miracle came from nature. the mother of Jesus, and shows that she knew that
nature
known
of his will.
And
was
perfectly natural
lation of fellowship
mand was
situation.
created by
for
The
his
Messianic work
made
it
impossible for
Mary
Jesus
had no harshness
but
it
word
"
Woman,"
new
was necessary
relation.
come
later in
Jerusalem.
He
did
33
His
first
miracle
as hard as any.
the water
his
will.
recognized
that
to
"The
Jesus
conscious water
God and
blushed."
knew how
to
mingle in social
life in
such a
recluse
way
as to bless
and gladden.
He was no
The
who
He
is
lover of
even
for
local
option
or
prohibition.
The
light
effect.
in
human
souls.
The
glory of Jesus
was
manifest to the
ciples
little
who now
new
feast
Master.
wedding
Cana.
4.
the
Jerusalem Authorities.
It
for the
Mes-
meet the
we come
to
a note of
it is
John
34
who
tell,
For
all
that they
in
the
work
But John,
if
we
take
Gospel to be
fairly chronological,
makes
So
at least
and a
let
half years.
it
was
is
in
in
first
months
before.
He
he
in the temple,
where he
loved to be
Father.
when a boy
also
is
Here
realizes that
his Father's
house that
money changers
Court
of the Gentiles.
He
is
and
phetic
and Messianic
authority.
this
It is
objected that
the
close
incident
at
of
and not
it
at the beginning as
John
has
it.
But
it
surely
was
of such a nature as to
make
Jesus
returned
to
their
The
for
men
rallied
anyhow.
a sign in proof of
35
right to do.
So here
is
drawn
between
Jesus
and the
authorities.
He could
him ?
Would
him now
He
He
It
on which he staked
his
whole career.
was
in
shown when
tation
is all
him.
And on
raise
it
the cross
it
will
that he
and
that.
He had
not said
He had
if
it
He had
said that,
he would raise
up
in three days.
career
objected that
it
is
for Jesus
if
that
36
end.
narrow a view of
makes
to
He came
work out
to
earth at
all
He
suicide.
their course.
events
hasten his
it.
To
ele-
mind
knowl-
ment
of transcendent heroism,
him
to lay
who saw that the only hope of the down his own life for it. But
will
do a man's
all
part
also.
He
will
about him
in religion
and
in
life.
He
will set
up
His
life
worth
and that
This
is
be to
men
That
calls for
He will begin with the house of God. Even if men with vested cleansing.
winked
at
privileges granted or
He
will protest
even
his
if
they
come back.
is lifted
He
and
hand
That hand
of
Ul-
JESUS
37
An
Inter viciv
Nicoansigns
demus
other.
felt
drawn
one scholar
a
is to
spirit,
man
versed in
The
God was
new
And
yet Jesus
was
man
was partly
that
Jesus
schoolman
rabbinical seminary,
so different.
at
first
place him.
collision in
He was
the
His
temple
The
rabbis
appre-
hended
trouble.
to him.
But
all
drawn
We may
with
many a
His
intro-
way
for
more intimate
Here
is
a very different
man from
He
if
is
the inquiring
scholar hedged
abstraction,
38
way through
Nicodemus
is
the slave of
it.
know
So
new
the
Kingdom
of grace
of
God.
The
helplessness of
in
Nicodemus before
that
fundamental idea
the
kingdom
in the
meshes of legalism.
own
point
Nicodemus, but
us.
spiritual
new
birth,
which
is
axiomatic with
"Ye must
be born anew."
for light
to
do with, though
the
was But
bring
that
him
this
into
Kingdom.
Jesus
insisted
Kingdom and
back
to
that
reached
the
purpose
atoning
in
of
God
as
shown
death of Christ.
too deep,
and we
of love
16,
whether
it
is
the
Evan-
own
words of
Jesus to Nicodemus.
The work
ful
of Christ in
JESUS
39
was aroused.
But
let
when
The
arrest of
when
G.
is
the issue
was sharply
joined.
An
Woman.
It
he
woman by
Jacob's well.
this
woman, and
itan,
a rabbi
whom
more
cordially
had had too many husbands and whose character and reputation made a very
to handle.
delicate
difficult
case
Nicodemus.
Every reason
of race
her alone.
to greater heights
this
sinful
woman.
He
common
topic between
There
is
no
finer
40
preme
in
overcoming
woman
herself.
for theologi-
cal controversy
a prophet.
pute.
that Jesus
was
preacher, a dis-
to
word
had
to give
about
God and
The
demus.
result
justified
the
patient
perse-
many
others.
maritan
woman
promise
of
victory.
The
was indeed
when such a woman as this could be The harvest is still ripe, waiting for
But the soul
of Jesus fed
on
this blessed
He
The
will of
God was
enough.
can be saved.
7.
The Call
to
Nazareth.
It
is
not surprising
Indeed,
he made a second
in
visit later,
Mark and Matthew. It was only fair to give Nazareth, the home of his childhood and youth, a
opportunity.
good
True,
Jesus
remained
away
41
baptism
till
his ministry
was
well under
way.
He came
as a rabbi,
of his miracles.
whom
to him.
felt.
all
But
courtesy.
roll
of Isaiah
and gave
Jesus sat
down by
That was
and
the
in-
sign that he
was going
make an
address,
They were
tell
on the qui
vive, for
now
for themselves
him
to justify his
left
them.
claimed the
on
this
day
of
The
won a
it!
sympathetic hearing at
Just to think of
The Messiah
Their pride
spell of his
under the
wondrous speech.
son?
Incredulity
in
But
was not
this Joseph's
was expressed
It
is
in their faces
and
perhaps
whispers.
some people
and friends
to suc-
The
42
work
It is this
underlying
it
by
for
him
to
After
talk
was
easy.
Work
But instead
of
accommodating
he gave them
God
as
shown
widow
of Zare-
phath, and
Naaman
the Syrian.
Nazareth had no
other
town.
pride,
They took
this as
them
all,
so that
hour besur-
"No
prophet
is
acceptable in his
own
country."
It
was now
clear that
Nazareth
Jesus
in
to cease
work
The
there.
But he
areth.
8.
should Jesus
now
in
make
his headquarters?
must be somewhere
Galilee.
43
Judea, and here at least was an opportunity of sowing the seed of the
Kingdom
still
free
The
Gentile ele-
ment
in
Galilee
was
considerable, especially
pressed
of
a generous
Roman
centurion.
Nazareth
Aramaic
both
chiefly heard,
disciples probably
spoke ac-
also.
The
in
half
him
Four
of them,
their fishing.
live,
When
Jesus
came
to
Capernaum
to
John.
They had
occasion,
To Simon
once more.
at thy
"But
pleased
word
down
the net."
If
it
Jesus, he
would
44
all night and caught nothing. The result humbled Simon and enabled Christ to draw a valuable spir-
itual lesson
for
Simon and
the rest.
Will he have
is
as
little
faith as a fisher of
men ?
This
the sec-
Christ,
though not
leaving
is
before
What
He was
new opinion
scril^es,
some
the
self-
He had
some
It
had been a
time since a
new
it
synagogue and
is
created a commotion.
W^hat
or old.
age.
new
lie is
pulpit should not have the dry rot nor the itch for
"What
this?
A new
teaching?"
We
have here
One
of
God, but
JESUS
It
45
reasons.
would
But the
demon
difficulties
connected- with
We know
too
little
of the spirit-
demons
may
without doubt.
One
is
humoring the
ian
The Babylonwas
illusion
delusion.
The
life
at
Capernaum was
On
this very
made on
to
this
Sabbath
against
the cures
wrought on
this day.
The
begun
One
is
of the
at the
he stood
passed
who
by.
9.
the town.
Galilee Also.
The
him
strain
rising
great.
We find
46
Jesus no
of
longer lingers in
most
may
be one.
We
made
of
in the
work done.
much
ex-
He had
strictly
charged
the
man
not to
tell,
We
One
The
period falling in
of
Capernaum
home.
them
is
down
present,
and eager
to find fault
is
against Jesus.
sees
This
the
first
appear
in opposition in
Galilee.
no more have a
free
hand even
here.
It is to
be ob-
of every
law
sitting
The
recent tour
local
had
stirred
in Galilee,
and the
THE
FIIiST
APPEAL OF JESUS
47
theologians had
for help.
evidently
appealed to Jerusalem
What was
much
traditional
orthodoxy?
They had
already
condemned him
He
will
now
that
we
are here,
we
a handle at once.
ness of sins.
He
This rankled
God.
to
be God.
But
and looked
their indignation.
They were not so brave as they supposed. But Jesus knew their hearts and accepted the unexpressed
challenge.
He bade
up
his
bed
of
Man
to forgive sins.
all
was audacious.
The
worst offence of
was that
the palsied
man
permission!
"We
never saw
it
on
this
fashion,"
And
the Pharisees?
They now
his ruin.
If
more bent on
all
Pharisaical theology.
survive!
won a
notable disciple
when Levi
the publi-
invitation.
The
Pharisees
48
be their
disciple.
" Pub-
lowest of men.
up
Perhaps Levi
broke over
real
There was a
man
loyal
in this publican,
instantly
He was
So he gave Jesus a
and
He did
formal invitation.
with such "trash."
for all
who wished
sees
to
come
if
to the feast
they liked.
and
their scribes
(students)
They
Jesus while he
enjoyed the
eats
a delightful occupation!
"He
Jesus
Go ye and
learn."
This
that spirit
is
with you.
own
esti-
mate
of themselves, Jesus
had come
Growing out
of this dispute
JESUS
49
Even some
of the disciples of
John
the Baptist are led by the Pharisees to complain that the disciples of Jesus
fasts.
They
This complaint
in outline
draw
by
Judaism.
form.
It
Christianity
is
is
impossible
to
graft
Judaism
upon
Christianity.
The
wrecked
a hybrid type of religion dominant through the middle ages, to the lasting injury of the cause of Christ.
For the
death.
first
time
we
chamber
of
He
the
the
little girl's
and mother.
arose.
He
took her by
miracle
may remind
all
ourselves
are hard to us
and
So
no
that
but to no
The
result
the prince of
demons
casteth he
50
out demons."
they attributed
to the devil.
Jesus
is
He
the
cynosure of
all eyes.
in the rapidly
CHAPTER
III
me"
29).
John
ever,
takes
in
We
do not, how-
know what
is
feast
it is,
Jesus
it
here.
we may
take
much
reservation
and
uncertainty.
half.
At any
the
When
Jesus was here before he had a certain popularity with the people, both in the city and in the country.
But the
rulers
Jesus
now
who has
stirred
Galilee.
1.
He
The
Pharisees not
52
in the
more.
instead of a blessing.
ligion
consisted in seeing to
all
laid
down.
One
If a
woman
looked into
and be tempted
to pull
it
out.
To wear
false teeth
But
in the
was more
octo
they
found
fault with
him
and
making
assum-
Each new
welcome.
can forge
man by
the Pool of
Bethesda.
He was
a stranger
to the
impotent
It
man
was
who had
the
Sabbath day
initiative.
told
Though the poor man did not know who it was him to get up and walk away with his
very
thing
that
that
bed,
the
he could
to
try.
not do,
yet
he
The
Jews,
who
53
about
his
being healed.
That
his
The
that
import-
them was
that he
was carrying
felt
hfe
The man
was
and
laid
the
healed him
all,
strange
learn
To
cap
it
when he did
who had
and
Jesus had not courted trouble over the matter, but he would not run from
it.
We
The
Now
they sought to
him be-
made
God
and proceeded
in the first
we
pos-
(John 5
is
equal with
though he does
the other hand,
On
will,
has set his seal upon him, and will do so to the end.
It
was, as
we
say, throwing
down
not take
up.
They
know
exactly
how
man
who was
54
Christ.
him
in debate,
with
subtleties.
had gone
2.
The
Battle
Renewed in
Galilee.
To
the Jeru-
On
again.
his return to
appear
fields
on the Sabbath,
some
of the
The
make
the attack
pitiful
wearisome and
having to deal
arguments.
of
He
flight.
ample
David who
in
bath when
priests
He
worked
in the temple
calls the
He reGod in Hosea: "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice." The ceremony counted for nothing with God unless the spiritual worship went
Jesus claims to be greater than the temple.
message of
along with
it,
Besides,
man was
not
made
man, an obvious
55
Bible
It is true of the
Men
come
may
be some
to
given to help
men
God.
And,
to
Jesus
is
Lord even
of the Sabbath.
He
import
Old Testament.
did,
he claimed he
is
new order
of things, for
expand, but in
it is
New
He
had brushed
sting
off
his enemies,
but
left
a rankling
by
his
The Sabbath
now
in various
of
make
him
serious
enough
to stand.
One
difficulty
with
They had
orthopraxy.
in
to the limit
the matter.
On
in
They
seemed
to
know
56
he would dare
man
who was
when
felt
their
importance keenly,
their
solemn thought
to us
of the matter.
He made the man step out where all Then he joined issue with his enedepends on the way a thing
put.
Much
Jesus asked
if it
was
right to
do good or
to
do harm
on the Sabbath.
he asked
if
Then
They
man was
man
To
They could
kill
man from
one thing
left.
They would
is
Jesus.
A man will
They even
Herodians,
him an unanswerable
offence.
argument.
counsel
It
mortal
old
with
their
enemies,
the
on the subject, so
Nazarene.
3.
bitterly
The need of
it is
now
manifest.
We
57
now he
is
made a
true
is
There
noth-
What
is
clearly
now he can no
compass
his downfall.
Satan
is
He
The
devil
becomes anxious
the Pharisees.
faith.
He
is
Jesus
If
is
heretic.
Jesus
binical
of sin.
there
as
was
He came
the Messiah of his people, and the accredited teachers of the time shut the
door in his
face.
Nor
bound
is
this
all.
He had some
band
of steel.
as yet no organized
to
of followers,
It
no force
him by hooks
was a world-
conflict.
was
of
over.
this
The purpose
band
is
stated
in
Mark
58
3:14f.
to
ers
was not a
It is
a special body of
men
pose.
They
work
of
starting Christianity
upon
till
its
world career.
They
may
learn Christ
him and
the
is
his ideas.
Kingdom.
The
Jesus evidently,
will
then,
Thus he
guaran-
message and
of
Kingdom
God.
will
It is
work
men
need
When
this
group of
men
work
shall
be
to their
Spirit.
The
choice
had a
class of twelve to
go with
him constantly
for nearly
two years.
The
was a
Jesus
crisis,
in prayer.
all
It
humanly speaking,
men.
of these
He
night
about
it.
In the gray
dawn
of the
morning he came
down
dew
of
heaven on
59
and
of un-
believers
ing.
in the early
mornhe
He
"whom
Then
It
was
to
Afterwards he came
to
is
level
nucleus.
He had
knew them.
Some
al-
The
rest
But who are these men? Six of them probably, Andrew and Simon, James and John, Philip and Nathanael, became disciples at the beginning at
Bethany, beyond Jordan.
publican's seat
five,
Another, Levi,
left
his
The
other
time.
They
are
of
This
fact
marks him
off
from the
but
of the band.
brothers,
Simon and
60
Alpheus
lists
The
four
that
we have
ing
to
of the twelve
later
Simon
and Judas
Iscariot last,
They
third.
heading the
second, and
Alpheus the
also called
Simon
who
Four
later
Romans.
them had
of
None
of
theological
now.
With
taught Alexander
They had
less to
unlearn than
if
still
shared in the
It will
lift
common
be a
these
men up to the spiritual interpretation of the Kingdom of God before his death and resurrection. Did Jesus make a mistake in choosing these men ? Where could he have gotten men better adapted to
his purposes?
Not
in
They were
all
men
of
61
No
and
alert.
Thomas
was a
was cautious.
(Bartholomew)
man man
free
from
a bit sceptical.
habits.
Levi was a
of
methodical
zeal in
business
Simon, the
zealot,
had
abundance.
of John,
was one
and a
tical
man
to be trusted.
Of James the Less and his brother Judas (Thaddeus) we are not able to form a very clear picture, though we cannot assume that
and prudent.
they were negative characters.
22).
There was
was not
traits,
strong points.
Even Judas
Iscariot
been treasurer
(so as to
absconding treasurers
if
to-
they had
shown
capacity).
it.
He
had
as he used
4.
The Declaration
of Principles.
The
Sermon
dis-
No
other words of
Jesus stand
are
They
the
commonly taken
mind
of Christ.
is still
The
62
life.
The
Luke
so repre-
and he
is
usually chronological.
According to Matthew the Sermon stands at the beginning of the Galilean ministry, more as a type
of the teaching
done by Jesus.
it
They do not
stances, for
probably a
finds
on
the
Horns
From
this level
up on the mountain
to address the people.
side
little
way and
sat
down
both Matthew
of the multitudes,
came
all
Many
many
Greek-speaking
It
is
possible,
though not
on
this occasion
spoke in Greek.
in its nature
had a
special application to
63
may be compared
It is
The
and unity
of the
Sermon may
therefore be assumed.
Matthew has
teaching.
Jewish
The
alike
reports in
and agree
argument.
It is possible,
true, that
some
of Christ's later
But
it is
more probable
same or
similar
Repetition
is
is
a popular teacher
who had
to
meet
of the land.
This sermon
admitted by
all to
have
by INIatthew
is
and Luke.
The Sermon on
the INIount
a fine exof
ample
The element
parable
discourses, but
numerous figurative
drawn,
allusions.
distinctions
antithesis, invec-
04
that he has
condensed form.
By no means.
Many
new
for
all
instance.
The
disciples
were not
ready for
all
The
up the teaching and carry it on. down a platform of very important principles pertaining to the Kingdom of heaven. He by no means wishes men to understand that this
Holy
Spirit will take
laid
is all
much
for
many.
peal to the
ard for
men
who
fall
human
life
is
here outimpossible
save to one
But
this clear-cut
made
above
all
human
is
ethical
standards.
The
is
people
wondered
still.
at these words,
wondering
This
Sermon, but a
that were
remembered and
told over
and
over.
65
some
theme
Sermon
cause
5
:
give
what we have
17-20.
Christ's
Idea of Righteousness
theme.
seems to be
And even
in
Luke
this is the
impHed subject
of discussion.
It is
Christ's
Idea of Righteousness
of Righteousness,
But
this
much
is
At one
the
set
up by
and Pharisees.
He
if
his hear-
do better than
had no hope
at
The
scribes
religious
The
pity
the
tions
situation!
is
The
here manifest.
He
hesitate.
He was
his
time.
He went
are.
Hence
teaching
is
eternal.
The
discourse.
not a
new
to
each
Beatitude
and
special
significance in each.
66
Luke
woes.
The most
is
atitudes
that
conception of happiness
of the
differs so radically
and Greek.
The formal
ceremoni-
upon.
would
find
little
to attract
If
him
spiritual
philosophy.
there,
The Epicurean
spir-
The
Stoic
but
it
was
all
All of
dure
to
them than
a work-a-day world.
Only
in portions of
the
find
Old Testament,
an approach
do we
to this
The Beatitudes imply a new heart or regeneration. The Kingdom of heaven belongs to those who rejoice in these qualities. joice in them.
It
the basis
It is
impossible
to
67
The Kingdom
"Seek
of
first
God
the
Kingdom of God and his righteousness." The ideal of righteousness is unfolded from
ous points of view.
It
vari-
among
the Jews.
These
scribes
Testament plus
their
own
interpretation of
first.
a
of
One specimen
it is
thine
enemy"
But
not enough
to seek
to the
Old Testa-
ment.
progressive.
as wrong.
It is
new
time.
direc-
He
same
His
tion,
from
by murder,
adultery,
oaths,
retaliation,
enemies.
own
at
all
to
be pressed
literally
He
make an
fact,
impression.
But
his point
is
is
plain.
In
the Father.
"Ye
Father
perfect"
(Matt.
5:48).
]\Iere
labored
Nor
is
68
was
vitiated
that of self-consciousness.
Alms, prayer,
fasting,
all
its
were
all
done
to
be seen of men.
Missing that,
was
lost to
the Pharisee.
own
reward.
A man
must be known
to give alms.
If necessary,
attract a
The model
prayer of
Jesus brings
puts his
of
its
and
Kingdom
not original in
many
phrases.
How could
original ?
The warning
place.
Trust in
God may be
is
all
chance.
when both
It is
eyes focus
on the same
It is
the matter
noise.
second
nature,
if
not
first.
It is easier to see
the mote in
beam
in one's
own.
mean
that
we
shall not
form opinions
69
He
does
mean
that
we
nor -unis
just in
our criticisms.
The
habit of criticism
very vicious.
disagreeable.
One can
is
so easily be snappish
and
not original
with Jesus,
put
it
The practice of it is the original The man who says that this is his
law and the prophets.
some
is
the
Clearly,
however, Jesus
meant
that this
of the law
and the
Howis
word
of caution
is
needed
to
one who
so
is
easily satisfied.
life
up
to.
It
means
far
more than
love towards
is
mere
good-natured
It
is
well-wishing
the
'practice
for
of
It
our
neighbors.
The narrow
images
It
way
is
are favorite
in
in ethical teaching.
The
in
idea
Psalm
etc.
1.
appears in the
Two
Ways,
Barnabas,
It
70
is
It is the straitened,
not
the
straight,
way.
The supreme
is
the
Many
now.
will glibly
say then
who
to do
very easy.
One
is
not to
this
demand that the tree be judged by its fruits. Kingdom of heaven with the new birth lies
basis
of
If the
at the
Christ's
idea of righteousness,
built
the
man
upon
the rock
consummation
of that rightfruit.
eousness.
The good
tree
There
here.
is
in just this.
He
gives the
power
It is just
because the
Kingdom
man
He
life
can and he
is
of the seed
the
The final and supreme test The man whose perfected fruit.
is
conforms
indubitably one
spirit
of
God.
It is rightfruit.
is
eousness applied to
teaching
is
The
no longer
in the clouds,
brought
down
to
men.
No wonder
71
glint of the
was the
with
His words
challenge
selves.
To
commends
is to
be the noblest
to the world,
man
that
become
the delicate
standard for
all
the world.
no further appeal.
5.
The Despair
of
John
the Baptist.
At the very
camHis friends
life,
planning for
an aggressive
were allowed
to see
him, but
it
was a dreary
so
utterly different
ness
all
After
the excitement to
come
to
this
dark solitude
whom
he had
Logic in a
If
why was he
setting
up the Kingdom
Perhaps
Why
did he
let
John stay
in prison ?
Maybe
72
self,
Messiah was
still
to
come.
Re-
ports of the
work
of Jesus
came
to
John
occasionally.
widow
of
his de-
So he sent two
more
light.
he was done.
tell
Then he bade
ef-
He added
stumbling in him
a gentle rebuke
for
to at
John.
Jesus
John
such a time,
He was
Jesus
is
from John
it
seriously.
There
on John's
part.
If
we wonder
John could
fall
later.
and hid
easily
go astray.
to pass
a wonderful
trib-
that
He
recalls the
multitudes
who
73
man
of
man
woman, an epochfuture.
He was
those in the
is
new
was
men,
He
Elijah that
all
come.
as Jesus
was
not.
The
and
publicans justified
glorified
God
John.
ascetic.
To the leaders John was too much of an He was peculiar, different from other folks.
diet, his
home
all
men.
But
to the
jectionable.
lived in their
He
homes.
They
called
him
therefore a
wine-bibber and
to find
him somewhere.
a
They
rabbi!
said he
So
it
a preacher to do?
It is
How
doubtful
if
if
he
he makes
The
do
is
do
right
is
and
let
Wisdom
works).
justified in the
(or
man
wins
who goes
74
straight
now
before
Herod yielded
Herodias
John.
her.
her
trap
to
kill
for rebuking
against
him
{ivelx^v avro)).
The
disciples of
told Jesus."
He would
this great
understand.
6.
to the
Father.
In
crisis of his
career Jesus
is fully
Father
is
with him.
is
In Matt. 11
25-30
we have a
of view
section that
identical in tone
and point
and even
Gospel of John.
Chorazin,
Bethsaida,
ished,
Capernaum
will reject
Father.
No
one
really
as no one really
The way
to the
On
the
in-
vitation to the
all to
He
The
invites
come
will
to school to
that his
yoke
twelve
He
asks for
more
who
the Son of
3'et
God
with
all
is
in heart.
Who
can refuse to
75
linger in
the
mind
like
No
teacher
ever
will
made such an
does here.
He
is,
light.
CHAPTER
IV
away?" (John 6
67).
now endeavor by vigorous work to win a foothold for the Kingdom in Galilee. He has already preached much in various parts of the country, but the results have not been large. The crowds
Jesus
will
are great
1.
and excitement
is
intense.
He Makes
be an experience of
It will
Certain
How
is
early
the
women
its
work
for Jesus,
and how
faithfully they
church
These good
women
later
Perhaps Judas
was influenced by
this fact
Mary
of Bethany's spending so
of this band,
now
76
77
She
is
not the
woman
washed
That legend
an unpardonable
Mary Magdalen. Nor was Mary Magdaas Mary of Bethany, the sister We know nothing of this journey save of Lazarus. the general statements made, but we can easily
slander on
len the
same woman
His Enemies.
He
has a
new
home.
puzzled over
and confusion.
The crowds
family conto take
It
The
come
clude that he
is
him
home.
He
Poor
INIary!
must
Even John
the Bap-
his
all
has
would do.
He was
it is
still
just a
great crowds,
in so
less
true,
many words
to
be the Messiah.
heard
some
are
of her friends
possible
on the
situation.
excessively
kind
all
explaining
our conduct.
The
people were
78
of Jesus, while
that
would give
enemies a handle.
So the
so charitable in the
They
at their view.
amazement went
of
Son
David
torted that he
was
!
in league
is
prince of
demons
That
It
was a shock
them
to him.
They were at some knew their thoughts and They had made a bold shot
Jesus claimed to be the ser-
The
issue
was
fairly joined.
He
charge, for
He
uses the
argumentum
also to cast
It
ad hominem on them.
out demons.
fair turn.
They claimed
By whom
was a
Here
a reductio ad absurdum.
79
demons by
the spirit of
is
God
^^he conclusion
that the
Kingdom
yet.
of
God
It
is
done
work
of the Spirit of
God
to the
power
of the devil.
forgiven.
They were
excusable
well as
if
guilty of
an eternal
sin.
It
was more
God.
is
He was
fire
the
Son
of
Man.
Christ
something of the
own
them "offspring
evil.
of
They
are evil
thought
the
this
Pharisees
righteous
But some
of
They
still
prob-
more deJewish
Christ calls
them " an
evil
and adulter-
ous generation."
They
come with
spectacular
Jesus gives
them the
and
Jonah.
The
sign of
Jonah was,
of course, lost
upon
80
Man
e.,
three days as
men
count
meaning
to accent
He
men
Nineveh repented
at the preaching of
not doing.
house to have a word with him and take him home. Jesus " looked round on them which sat round about
him" and
ren."
said:
"Behold,
my
mother and
my
breth-
his mother.
moment
had
bound
to
him by
the
ties
of
the
flesh
failed
understand him.
lost
Mary,
her way.
But she
will find
it
Jesus Adopts a
first
New
Style of Teaching.
It is
not the
first
made
a point of doing
brief
so.
Those
used theretofore
had been
and
isolated.
On
many and
at
much
in his
length.
method
81
who
in his efforts to
while
we blunder
modern times
that
we
studying the pupil as well as the subject to be taught. Jesus in this very context urged his hearers to take
how
they heard.
The
parable
is
The
in-
form of
There
is
some
do.
all
But
other
men
away
into oblivion.
perfect.
They
They
is
illustrate
This
by no means the
parable
is is
noteworthy
fact.
The term
used in
that of
truth
spiritual
On
this
occasion,
as
usual,
the
The
and enemies on
his
They
82
more
of the
The
use of parables
now
served
Kingdom from
his ene-
The
harshness of this
is
of Christ
much
re-
when
perceived.
The day
will
come when
the Pharisees
them.
It is
to get out of
the
stuify
But even
people
The
in parables,
and
We
how
us a
jolt.
We
do not know
Matthew
gives
seven and
Mark one
it
"many
such parables,"
is
Things new
of his store.
Some were
Two
of
them
83
They
The
from
this day's
teaching
the Tares
Seed, the
They
illustrate together
many
sides of the
Kingdom
is
of heaven,
which
is
numerous
facets;
refuses
The Kingdom
is
of
God
and
soil,
growth
in the heart
like that
of nature.
The
line of cleavage
not
made
of the
nings,
They grow
in the
same
field (the
world)
till
The growth
cover
dis-
It will ultimately
the earth.
INIeanwhile, spite of
much
evil
and
couragement,
many
it
will
Kingdom
There
will
and consider
will
one.
It
of stress
of Jesus.
84
cleft
The
iron
of Christ.
With a
No wonder
little
that
Jesus
was soon
fell
asleep.
When
down
upon the
Jesus slept on
awoke him
He
;
what manner
man
he
it
is.
to
was not
their
They
there-
grew
term Mes-
There was,
a twofold development.
to the disciples,
in apprehension of him.
On
had an experience
from Gadara.
of horror.
was
in the region
The
the rocks was not a sight to give rest of the sea had turned to storm.
But
at least
85
The
destruction
added
man make
The mystery
of evil
is
and demons.
The
presence of
may
The assumption
all
that
the difficulties
concerning the
said,
demon
little
possession.
As previously
we know
word
is
too
the final
here.
But
Jesus
He
will
it.
sometimes
those
who do
not appreciate
The
once so wild,
mind
is
comfort to those
in city.
who
Jesus
tells
great things
5.
tell
what
Nazareth.
Nazbut on
areth
second
it
opportunity.
so,
Some
visit
was
the whole
recorded by Luke.
86
home
True
last-
the
last
time.
It
was
own
country.
enough, as he
finds,
own country, among his own kin, own house. But he would give them their chance. They are astonished. They are incredulous. How can it be ? Where did it all come from ? We know his family and we know him. They stumbled
ing honor, in his
and
in his
at
to believe
with their
own
eyes.
was
he marvelled
And
at Nazareth.
and passed
and out
of sight.
Who
will
welcome
Jesus
now?
turned
aside.
The heathen region of Decapolis had him away. His own home had pushed him
Jerusalem
was
bent
on
his
destruction.
the truth
Third Tour of
Galilee.
is
This tour
concerned.
will settle
It will
be
The
He had
indeed a
little
band
of
to
cope with
87
new
recruiting
dilemma
is
prayer to the
fail
Lord
of the Harvest.
Somehow we
to
em-
here, for
it
is
a world
instruction
it
and obserIt is
Now
into practice.
It is
quite an-
God ?
?
Will sinners be
Will the
demons
go out
first
at their
command ?
them
Who
The
Master
out, for
to see
how
their
work turns
much depends on
these men.
In the strug-
and
prestige of State
if
of prejudice.
What
ing?
the disciples
them
in
Some
enjoined
were
afterwards
expressly
changed
by
88
Jesus, as
not to go in the
way
of
The "Hardshell"
the
has always
made
literal interpretation of
words of Jesus on
this point,
and the
commands
little
But
let
manners have
They go
The
spirit
They go
forth as
If
The one
to fear is
After
This
seems
said elsewhere.
that
he
said,
however paradoxical
This
is
the law of
wisdom
of serpents.
It is
the
went forth
They
did
89
the gospel of
the
Kingdom.
result.
Galilee
was apparently
to
paign.
Antipas
He had
Baptist,
come
to
again.
Others
thought
was
But Jesus
studi-
way
of
boded no good
7.
to him.
As yet
er,
claims to be.
as a wonderful teach-
a worker of miracles, a
man who
in
has
won
is
the
Jerusalem,
who
im-
reviled
by the Pharisees
in Galilee,
but
who
is
He had
not said
them
that he
Who
he ?
thousand men,
women and
all
beyond
bounds.
just returned
and were
90
of
people awaited
for his
him
there.
They
lined the
mountain eager
words and
all
his works.
full
view of
who
had come.
tude.
He offered
was a
glorious scene
They saw
the
We
No
will
that Jesus
the Messiah.
That was
It
was the
The
vox
dei
if it is
This time
it
homes and
in the boat.
He
himself went
up
into the
to talk with
the Father
who
him and
his
91
needed.
He won
we
shall
soon
a
To
first
seemed
like
him
them.
and so did
was now
Galileans.
people; yes,
He was the man of the hour with the the man of the hour. Was he the man
them ?
Jesus was determined to
let
the multitude
know
They
la-
be a temporal Messiah.
their political
eternal
it.
life,
they only
knew
to the
the peo-
He would
all
like to
The Master
told
them that
fishes.
and
to eternal life, to
92
Jesus himself,
him
word
to
"eat"
him.
gogue when
to
dawned on
These
rationalists finally
in disgust.
One
lace.
thing was
now
certain.
He was
no longer a popular
here.
idol with
them.
Christ had in
PeoFinally
ple go in herds.
all
They,
had
left
the outcome in
to
Capernaum when
that
is,
we do
not
want him!
failed.
The campaign
It is only
Samaria.
till
the end.
He
al-
most nothing
is
the
spiritual
result.
He knew
93
fatal
What
will
they do?
in
his ministry.
Once
more
hinged on them.
Had
they, too,
still
succumbed
here in the
loyal
to the
outgoing tide?
They were
Were they
also go
"Would ye
away?"
Simon
is
the speaker.
How
?
For one
whom
should they go
trust
the Holy
v.ith
One
of
God.
It is
not a
it
new
experience
first,
them.
from the
but
Now,
they are
closer
drawn most
to him.
This then
any
rate.
He
8.
has these
is
men
at
them
devil.
their Attack.
It
between
Jesus and
Capernaum.
So the
94
ing with
found guilty of
it
heinous crime.
To
their
minds
re-
ligion.
The
disciples of Jesus
sumed,
that this
is
was
command
it.
of
God.
Now
right here
Jesus did
That
did
to do.
What he
of this very
command
of
God and
tradition of
how
and privation
in
You make void the observing them word of God by your tradition "and many such
themselves.
things ye do."
self-righteous
proached Christ.
of father
at robbery
ban," especially
money came
their
way.
95
summed up
in
He
specifically
on the point.
It
servance that
of the heart.
made
man good
was a
conflict,
ditionalism.
disciples
grew uneasy.
if
to ask Christ
sees
They
of the Pharisees.
They were
Master
of re-
far.
He saw
mere
that
it
was impossible
for
him
and
to
q's of
"Let
is
This
the
are blind
the
dark.
who
96
itual
the Pharisees,
In
come
This
lesson, so
diflBcult
of
apprehension then,
a commonplace
now with
all
evangelical Christians.
who name
the
name
of Christ
have bound themselves to the externals, to the obscuring or even the destruction of the spiritual realities.
Mark adds
meats clean.
tion to take
made
all
It is
is
the one
who
will receive
he
will
be invited
The
far
show how
all
he
that Jesus
had
in
result of
definite
97
The
in
struggle for
be won
all
won
is
yet in
parts of Christen-
dom.
But Jesus
straight ahead.
He
effective
work
in Galilee is over.
his
To them
if
he must
they are to be
to
his death
It
CHAPTER V
THE SPECIAL TRAINING OF THE TWELVE
"But who say ye
1.
is
that I
am?"
(Matt. 16
15).
The Reasons
for
It
now
less
than a year
For
band
of
around him.
it
If these
will
As
yet
supremely
difficult for
one to
rise
do with what he
is
that Jesus
One of the greatest proofs more than man is just this, that in an
sees.
abundant
life
and
power.
So
He had
of the
Kingdom.
all
The
now undertill
stand
later.
that they
But meanwhile
99
and
less
not a
wrong
historical
The
and they
the broad
built,
On
foundation of the
till
Kingdom
now
fell
The
disciples
had
to
tell
The time had come when he could not wait longer. The shadow of the cross was coming rapidly towards him. The
more.
more.
total eclipse
would
now
and
his mission.
told the
it
will
difficult to
devote himself
or in
the
Capernaum
The
many and
acute
multitudes.
is
Capernaum
issue will
now in The
tightly
is
more
Pharisees.
There
100
was shown
Besides,
thousand.
jealous
Herod
himself
had
grown
Galilee,
school in theology.
of
that
little
districts. He has a summer What a joy to have been one company. They appear in several
places
heathen
of
regions.
is
summer
men
of his choice
The Trip
to
Phcenicia.
to the
The
work
of
Jesus
Jews
They were the chosen people, the people of promise. They must have the first chance. To work much
in
Samaria or
in Phoenicia
most of
is
his ministry in
Jewish
will
Now
he
summer, but
Jesus
is
work
is
saw and
was
to begin
to the
To
the
Jew
first
and then
in
All this
must be borne
mind and
yet
was destined
101
unwashed hands.
He
it.
even seems
:
(Mark 7
24)
man know
However,
seems due
to
felt
in the
house of Cor-
The
the Syrophoenician
in the light of
woman
is
what has
was not
be
It is to
away
the
disciples
it
suggested.
He
though he made
was
first to
He
tested the
woman and brought out the greatness of her faith. He did grant her request, a thing that the disciples would not have done. The disciple is often narrower than his master. The cleverness of this woman is as striking as her faith. " Even the little
dogs {Kvvdpia) eat of the crumbs which
their master's table."
fall
from
for
Jesus did
up
102
further details
that the
it is
work
be
re-
done was
less
than
though
to
called that
the
Sermon on
the
Mount
seacoast of
an entire stranger
many
Decapolis.
They
after
leaving
Sidon.
Mark
sketches
the
journey as from Sidon through the borders of Decapolis to the seacoast of Galilee.
cliffs
southeast.
heathen
territory.
The
were
cities
which
Alex-
Hellenized
after
ander's conquest.
The
The
dumb man, and they wondered as they saw dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and the
glori-
God
of Israel.
As elsewhere,
therefore,
work
of Jesus
made
a marvellous
impression.
103
foreign
missionary.
It
These
Greeks
glorified
"The God
of Israel."
was
to the north
As a
though no Pharisees
all
them
not to
tell
about
the
"But
(Mark 7
36).
Some
critics
cannot see
twice,
could have
happened
although
Matthew mention
arate.
in detail
Other
distinctions,
like
the
name
of
the
One can be
Nature works
similarity also.
remarkable
how
and
in
each great
region
tent
in
Samaria,
Phoenicia,
Decapolis,
and the
much
there,
same teachings
and
cures.
The
people
104
are
The
slowness of the
disciples to
thousand
dullness
The
and forgetfulness
but
is
fore the
coming
of the
Holy
Spirit.
The
surround-
ent and the points of likeness are such as belong to the nature of the case.
4.
Brief Visit
to Galilee.
Magadan
was on the
down towards
?
Tiberias.
He
How
as
if
will
he be received
Pharisees
came
forth
and began
so glad to see
him back.
a strange
The Sadducees are with the Pharisees, combination. The Herodians had also.
to himself.
This
is
the
first
105
Week.
ministry in the temple these three parties will appear together against Jesus.
to say.
They ask
for a sign
had done
before.
this is his
So
as hopeless as ever, in
more
so.
and
denial.
They could
tell
They
in
could not
tell
if
He
Capernaum.
was
He
will give
them the
sign of Jonah.
useless to explain.
Galilee.
So Jesus abruptly
left
them and
ciples
He
northeastern shore.
On
the
way he
and Herod.
and
He had
The
just
been
in the land of
Herod
and
had
been
attacked
by
the
Pharisees
the Sadducees.
"We
They
did
106
Sadducees,
and
Herod
No wonder He asked if
Perhaps
this
if
moments
of
sympathy with
patiently
mood
of
Jesus here.
five
Christ
explained
about the
Did
poor blind
5.
The Examination
of the Twelve.
It
was time
sumSo
for examination.
special
He
still
kept
away from
a better
Galilee.
Philip
was a milder
Antipas.
ruler
and
tried
all
He had
But
Capernaum, and
after
mattered
of him,
provided these
men were
in
and
loyal.
They had
They
it
are here
alone.
by themselves
up with them.
He
first
men
107
it
served as a
crucial
background
for their
own
attitude.
It
was a
moment when Jesus abruptly asked: "But who say ye that I am?" (Matt. 16 15). They had taken
:
at the start,
it is
true,
but they
knew
little
They had
their
own
preconceived ideas as to
like.
He had
The
not
come up
The
discovery
away
in
now
?
after they
know
still
so
about him
siah, the
Do
of
they
think
him
Son
God ?
Or have
the people
they
felt
is
which
now much
hold him to
divided
Few among
now
many
consider
come
to life or Elijah or
Jeremiah or one of
the prophets.
It
his
tongue
first
and spoke
as he
in the
synagogue in Caper-
He rose to the dignity of the occasion. Jesus "Thou art " the Christ, the Son of the living God (Matt. 16 16).
naum.
had said that Simon would be a Rock.
:
They
fully
and
viction
rest.
They
understand
108
The
made
glad by these
On
this truth,
Son
of
God,
What
all will
They
In
will
Son
of
God and
Saviour.
this
now
men
will
be true and
will
carry on the
work
of the
Kingdom.
The
all
gates of
Hades
or
will not
Kingdom
of Christ.
Peter and
the rest,
all
Kingdom,
who proclaim
life
to
men on
these terms.'
God
will
as His Son.
Not
is
them
to
tell
others
what
if
a great
would
to
set the
land ablaze
yet.
came
be preached as
There
much more that they themselves need to know. They have made good progress on this point. Will they be true when they learn this "more"? When
they learn of his death, what will they do?
So a
outcome.
The
present situation
109
Look
It
at the
King-
dom
6.
of
God
The
New
all
Great Lesson.
their
seemed Hke a
just as they
mockery of
announce
words.
hopes that
now
his
He had
was
all
so
was made.
It is in fact
Matthew
"from
:
Jesus to shew"
(Matt. 16
21) that he
must be
and
killed at Jerusalem.
scribes."
to kill
So he ex-
and Pharisees
him
after
All this
it
to the dis-
ciples;
It is true that
That overshadowed
in
else.
The
eclipse
the penumbra.
him
Of
course Peter
knew more
of
what Jesus
This
no
none the
was inexcusable.
Besides, he
was
He
He
did not
know that self-sacrifice was the law of life, that one who tries to save his life shall lose it, that every man must take up his own cross if he means to follow
Jesus.
is
as
it
was a familiar
Jews
in
Roman
times.
(Matt. 16
23).
It
and
especially Peter
who had
man
in calling
He
is
acting
now
as he
was
like
a rock then.
"Thou
me."
That was
the point.
The most
him not
men!
It
was a strange
had used
discovered
coalition,
The
devil
He has
Un-
1 1
was a shock
It
to Christ
have
it
come from
Peter.
was now
Can
they
be
his
made ready
knot
in
time?
How
logical
7.
Heavenly Light on
the
Subject.
From
life.
the
human
circle
sympathy
The
and almost a
faithful to
The
apostles
They were
poor plight
be
left
him
still
less.
How
One
can
little
at this
time.
sympathizer.
About a week
after Peter's
rebuke
He
circle
feeling
toward Peter.
After
know
any more ?
There
is
112
course,
that
is
Certainly
the
In
fact,
the
was
was
in
The
transfigura-
he prayed.
Was
it
the
Or was
The
lieve,
it
we have
full
proof of
life
in the
death of both
Moses and
Elijah
Elijah.
God
up
in
a chariot of
JBre.
for
who
least
is
They spoke
heart
of the de-
They
at
understood,
and
Christ's
was com-
No
graciously sent
spirit of
console the
In the
strength
meat he could go on
steadily to
the cross.
We
13
but they
doubt.
It
in
view was to
glimpse of the
was
offered
them
He
all
about him, so
when he suggested
They were
when
they
The
voice not
him
es-
But
it
was soon
over,
down
telling
the mountain.
them not
till
to
heard
the
Son was
of
tell
man
should
rise
Then
they might
it
Meanwhile
to
But
among
They
did notice
now
his
114
he referred to
was a
long way off. So they relapsed into confusion again. They did ask Christ about the coming of Elijah, but
not about the real problem in their heart.
rest
had
failed to heal a
demoniac boy.
When
Jesus suc-
own
failure
was due
Back in
Galilee
Death.
know
that he
is
in
Galilee
lee is over.
now (Mark 9 30). His real work in GaliHe attempts again to explain about his
They did get in, but 44). "They understood not." It seemed concealed from them somehow and they were afraid to ask further,
:
sorry.
It
was
really
The
that
Jesus was
enough without
this.
1 1
and
resurin
rection they
They
get
on the great
is
ecclesiastical question as
which of them
greatest in the
is rife,
kingdom
of heaven
Ecclesiastical jealousy
therefore, right
among
the
bosom
friends of Christ
and
They had
already asked
him
did
who was
not wish
Kingdom.
They
This
him
to
know
of their envy.
it
So Jesus
called
litde
it
little
child.
Was
Peter's child?
all
know
was the
greatest, the
most
to serve.
is
This
of
it is
intolerance
that
caused
rebuke
from
too!
John had seen a man casting out demons name of Christ. He actually cast them out, What was his offence? He did "not follow
us!"
That was
all.
John expected
to
be pro-
moted
Here we have
How
little
116
spirit of
narrowness of John as he
What
is
and prejudices.
The wonder
We
and
self-
preach the
practice seeking.
spirit
too
It
often
self-aggrandizement
and
was
pitiable then
and
it
is
lamentable
now.
Christ cares for his
little
ones, those
It is
who
are
weak
and tender
in the faith.
easy to be heedless
and
who
love Jesus.
of
who wrong
not God's
will that
one of those
ones perish.
opposi-
The
mean
him.
That
is
rather
a cold-blooded
proceeding.
shall
be
is
And
real
forgiveness
The
officious in their
Jesus discour-
11
At
this particular
time
He was
will
an
On
the other
hand,
if
not turn
back
will
die.
after
He
he
This
is
my
father"
father
means.
might
live
many
God was
im-
perative.
10.
Was
It
was
September.
It
had
been
in
Jerusalem.
To go now offered
festivals.
little
of hope.
The
ably
They prob-
knew
Galilee.
secret
Messiah as
tell
it.
They
him
to
go up to Jerusalem and
do
his
work "openly."
of people
who know how to manage our business better than we do ourselves, especially if they dislike us a bit. It It is amazing how much wisdom is misapplied.
looks sometimes as
to
if all
of us
118
given.
will
his
independence.
He
affairs of the
Kingdom
as seems
good
to him.
He
and
at his
own
time.
Facing Jerusalem.
It is
So
he was going
to Jeru-
salem again.
He
make
new campaigns
than that.
Galilee.
He
He
will
When
that
is
done, the
end
will
not be far
off.
He
goes
towards Jerusalem.
all right.
When
he went north
it
was
spirit of bitter-
on a Samaritan
spirit
village.
of,
They
it
did not
down know
what
they were
on
They
will
salem.
but lately
119
appearance then
in the nature of
Will
it
succeed?
Suppose
Is
it
worth trying?
CHAPTER
VI
Jesus
salem
will
itself.
now make a series of attacks upon JeruHe had come here in the beginning;
he
He
at once.
But there
is
nowhere
in
is
wholly in the
hands of
his enemies.
They
Somehow
from
tudes.
present.
But
in the
not
Where is he? What do you think of him anyhow ? The Galilean multitudes are divided over him. They had once been almost unanimously on his side, but now it is not so.
versation.
Will he
come?
120
121
him and
say:
"He
is
is
man" this
not.
at
any
rate,
whether he
the
Messiah or
But others
stoutly protest:
"Nay,
This controall
was
largely in
an undertone because
knew
one
affair.
that the
No
be mixed up in the
in the
on
this point
by appearing
in
the temple
1.
and teaching.
at
Home,
This
There
was
What
will his
enemies do?
their opportunity.
fail to
They
The
first
effect of his
tile
teaching
He
But
if
they but
knew
it.
Jesus cut
They
him.
They
little all
of Jeruof
salem understood
and a group
them
comment on
7
:
the fact
when
25)
122
ing Christ.
Messiah
is
of
it.
life
His
Some
At
meaninde-
mystic
language
announces
fail to
under-
indeed!)
The
But the
came back
Jesus.
sheepishly
to
the Sanhedrin
without
at the officers
and
fol-
sneered at
who
lowed Christ.
The
had
fallen
under the
acter as well.
It is to the credit of
Nicodemus
that,
when Jesus was there under fire by the Sanhedrin, he dared to make a point of law in his favor. He has more courage now than when he went to see
Jesus by night, but he received scorn for his courage.
The
by Christ
after the
123
distant
The
multitudes had
left
for
their
in the city
and
drew
attention.
One
"I
am
12),
he said.
It is
an astonishing saying,
if
one
is
not prepared to go
The
Pharisees took
it
up
instantly.
The
Jesus that
fication
God was
That was
its justi-
they did
"WTio
art
If
he would
only say a plain word that they could lay hold of!
But he points
what he claims
he
is
to
be (John 8
some
of
24),
and proceeded
offered
to
test
these
new
believers.
He
re-
of truth,
which they
sented; he offered to
make them
insulted;
true children of
he showed that
God
and
124
they proved
by trying
to kill Jesus,
man who
told
them the
before
truth.
Abraham was
them unendurable.
The
He had
been a well-known
sit.
stir
man's neighbors.
simple narrative.
sees
They were not satisfied with his They took the man to the Pharieverything, but
it
who knew
was
pitiful,
the
It
was
But then
it ?
it
else
but
God
could do
else
Some argued
was a
sinner,
on the Sabbath
all.
man was
never blind at
They
proceeded to
settle
The
appealed
They
identified the
man and
to
proved
his blindness.
in a corner.
be correct,
how
The
devil
at
any rate
would be more
"
125
They took
is
this
new
turn.
We
admit the
that that
Jesus
you can
tion.
point
The man saw the humor of the situasee! He was no theologian, but he could see a He opened my eyes and you as plain as this.
tell
cannot
whence he
is!
That
But
is
strange,
all
when
Besides,
we
know God
are open!
my
eyes
in
a rage.
"Thou
him out
wast alto-
He
They
cast
of the syn-
Kingdom
God and gave him spiritual sight also. The enemies of Christ have their picture drawn by Jesus. They did not sit for it voluntarily, but
provoked
the
characterization
:
by
40).
asking
Jesus
He
told
them
Good Shepherd who knows his and whose sheep know him. There are thieves sheep and robbers who want to get the sheep, but who will
run at the sight of a wolf like a hireling.
Good Shepherd
vivid picture
Jewish sheep.
a demon, and
mad."
126
2.
Campaign
in Judea.
There
had been an
successful.
early
to leave Jerusalem,
he turns
As yet no permahere.
made
Judas
Is-
of Kerioth,
and
in
He
rest
needed
it,
too, as a place
where
he could find
and sympathy.
Lazarus, Martha
and Mary
ways
of
all
showing
recorded only by
Luke
who
his
fills
distinctive
of
Christ.
Many
and many
All this
in
is
perfectly natural.
repeated.
Some
of the Pharisees
showed
courtesies
some did
in Galilee.
But the
He
put on
airs
The
breakfast
seems
to
in disorder.
One
of
who
127
we
forgive
him
since he
was
a band of preachers
instruc-
Luke
to
told also of
them
also
and
their success
was
him a prophecy
Some
Sermon on
have done
One must
it is
In the abstract
cannot be
his teachings
region.
The
(Luke 12 49
f.).
He
fire blaze, to
at this
when he
recalls
to say
into practice.
it
This outburst
not
impatience but
128
3.
Without
It
is
the blare of
winter
(the
he
is
The
know
hostile
at
They want
to say
who he
is
about himself.
impression
it.
made a profound
still
talking about
"If
:
us plainly" (John 10
25).
The question was a legitimate one, but they wished They knew very to make a bad use of his answer. well who he claimed to be, but they wished to charge
him with blasphemy.
word Messiah But Jesus would not say the
it
would
So he stood
the Father.
They jumped
at this
He
it
He would
in their
law
It
If
they
him.
But
he was
swiftly gone.
129
The
stay of Jesus in
and soon
first
over.
He
to
disciples.
his
to
is
In a sense he
now a
fugitive
from Jerusalem.
Had
he made a
Could he
The
devil
had
offered
He
will
go on as he began.
glorifies the
These
people
about him.
of
knew Jesus because of what John had said That is a pertinent and a piercing test
gives us the story of this Perean min-
modern preaching.
Luke alone
istry,
much
is
preserved.
We
He wanted
to
saved.
had better
try to get to
is
heaven himself.
One
Jesus shall
fall
into the
130
in
he
now
is.
Christ understands
It is difficult
make
whether
who wished
all
Jesus to
move
veigle Jesus
back
Christ saw
to
that
Jerusalem
Meanwhile
his heart
went
A
fast
to the guests,
a guest
who made a
14
:
15f).
and
much
as he did in Galilee
result.
The hard
If
con-
the issue
is
made between
tate.
father
and
Christ, one
must not
hesi-
It
was
in
In the formal
made by him
for his
conduct in seeking to
131
was
correct.
They assumed
publicans did.
They were
Kingdom
of
Heaven.
When
scoflSng
when he
told
Man
They
and
the more.
We
fur-
may thank
The Sanhedrin
in Desperation.
The raising of
God and
was preIt
God (John
11
4).
power
enemies of Jesus.
The
modern
for
its
times, but
Christ
is
divine, the
argument
reality stands.
The
132
When
power
Martha who
God
even now.
It is to
Martha
that he uses
am
the resurrec-
It is
Martha
also
who makes a
emo-
(John 11
27).
With Mary he
and even
his
exhibits great
at the
tomb he has
Martha
re-
in
controlling
feelings.
is
masterful.
It
was a majestic
command Lazarus stepped forth out The bearing of Jesus was never more
more serene than
arus would
at this instant.
forth.
in great
dignified nor
come
sisters, for
Lazarus was a
man
of
Many
of those that
saw Laz-
come out of the tomb believed on Jesus. Others went and told the Pharisees what had occurred, as
if
in search of help.
It
They were on
all
lieving too.
was
had
to
be
for
would be
lost
and
133
"What do we?"
and
they
of the nation
by
the
patriotism.
at
Caiaall,
phas remarked
knew nothing
in
which he was
He
make
in his
They
their
diffi-
make
stroyed
places.
man.
By
the
God
scattered
all
But now
was
dead
Of
of
course, he
was a deceiver!
No amount of power or
6.
In
the
Mountains
Ephraim.
was
human
point of view.
This
134
Galilee at least
him
save at
Nazareth.
Now
anything,
now
more
active than
One
cannot doubt
the devil
Ephraim
all
He
how
it
might
It
have been
just as
It
if
his advice
was
he had predicted.
late
now
to
mend
them
matters on the
same terms.
The
devil
off
from
their
this
murderous purpose!
battle long ago.
had the
but
disciples with
little
how
Going
to
The hour
hills of
is
near at
Ephraim.
At
looks as
But
it
is
He will go to
Jerusalem
135
King Messiah.
many who were more or less friendly. The Pharisees who are along seem to feel that something is in the air. They ask Jesus when the Kingdom of God comes. He does not
be some followers of Jesus and
Kingdom.
it
it
It
in the hearts of
17
20f.).
The
Pharisees
make no
sort of a
them
still
Kingdom
that
they wished.
talk of
his
his
To
second coming.
up before
mind now
will
as his death
The Son
went up
of
Man
be fully revealed.
Meanwhile
prayer.
The how
knew
to find out
The
procession
is
Now
the story
told
by
the Synoptics.
The
of divorce.
They were
divided on
it
themselves,
In
136
amazed
to
that Moses'
of divorcement
was due
to the hard-
The
Even the
Christ has
disciples
made
the
No wonder
money.
that one
They
was a
is
actually
supposed
favorite of heaven!
is
to-day
a proof of piety
Christ.
the
word "crucify"
His looks
made
the
disciples
amazed and
understood
them
and
not.
right
They were merely dazed for a moment away James and John with their mother
the two chief places for themselves
Kingdom
pitiful,
What Kingdom ?
at such a time
!
What
places
was
and
which they
the phil-
accepted.
How
little
they
knew
Even
the son of
Man
had
137
ransom
for
many (Luke
same
45).
The
ten, of course,
that
spirit.
8.
The Challenge
all
is
to
Jerusalem.
Jesus
is
at Jeri-
cho and
astir.
Blind
He was
nigh
Kingdom
:
to
appear (Luke
19 11). They felt it in the air. Their sort of a Kingdom was now to appear. The real Kingdom had already come and was continually coming.
to
He went on
in rest
up toward Jerusalem
and
to Bethany.
was on
to the
would come
him.
now that the Sanhedrin had decided to They had made public request for his arin the
rest,
perhaps by placard
temple courts.
Out
at
Lazarus
in
The
feeling
was tense
at both places,
Jerusalem antagonism,
in
Bethany sympathy.
In
Bethany with
138
knew
his claim to
knowing that
was the
re-
ward
him
the Messiah.
picture of
That wish
now be
gratified.
The
ride,
He was
all
King
of Peace,
city joined
turned
down
the Pharisees
who saw
it
thought that
all
was
over.
to
them
that
They would not dare lay hands on so many friends. So they turned
for this outcome.
lo,
" Behold,
nothing:
:
the world
is
gone
after
19).
shame Jesus
:
roar (Luke 19
But
David.
they
are
hailing
of
Jesus
as
the
Son
of
The Kingdom
Peace
in
God
has come at
last.
Hosannah.
heaven
and glory
in
the
139
worse, for
scene Christ
went back
he was
disciples.
What
now ?
Jerusalem at
9.
that.
tJie
Foretaste of
Struggle.
now
The
came
this
maddened
the rulers
still
more.
The
popularity
of Jesus
was unendurable.
They came
early to get
standing
his
room about
listening.
hung on
all eyes.
words
rulers
He was
the centre of
The
well,
Some Greeks
Philip
felt
at the feast
But
Andrew
the
man
of
counsel.
They
bring the
140
Jew
him
up.
do
it.
Greeks
come
to
classes of
men, when he
is lifted
The law
of
life is
grain of wheat.
for
men.
So vivid does
all this
bein
come
to him, as
in
agony as
to save
Gethsemane he
this
Father
with
him from
hour (John 12
:27), but
instant
submission.
is
"Father, glorify
Thy name."
:
This, then,
it is
a glori-
name.
Once more,
the third
approval.
The Father
of his death.
either
eclipse
10.
No
one
else at that
hour understood
darkness of the
The
coming on.
The rulers
felt
keenly
their disadvantage
now
There
was
The
spell
He must
be
exposed
and made
ridiculous,
if
nothing
more.
in the
141
company
But
all at
who
John's baptism.
and
identified
John's
them
in a hopeless
laughed
at,
not Jesus.
saw
no wiser.
The
Pharisees
and Herodians
rallied
and came
to the rescue
by sending some
of their
the
of course,
were opposed to
who
col-
lected them.
of pious
at the reply of
Jesus they looked simple, held their peace, and stepped back, wondering greatly at finding one wiser than
they were.
The Sadducees
"
142
hand
But Jesus
They,
of
God
to
Moses
knowing the
Scriptures,
were keep
20
:
silent,
still,
well said"
(Luke
39).
this the Pharisees
At
embarrassed
friends.
He
tempted
own
He
retire.
the assembled
Pharisees and asked them a question about the person of the Messiah, the very thing that they had
so often asked him.
How
of
David
same time?
carried the
The problem
war
really
was that
of the
humanity and
He had
all to rout.
him
gladly.
still
They were
once he
let
upon
his re-
lentless foes.
He
143
They hid
made
prose-
wrong emphasis on
truths,
spirit,
they
were professional
in
was
ter-
The heart
of
Jesus sat
down
in
one poor
All
widow whose
quiet
was
His
now
after the
storm.
He went
hornets.
out of the
all.
enemies were
11.
like
maddened
of
The Prophecy
Doom.
them
As
It
Jesus pointed to the fine temple buildings and prophesied the destruction of
all.
sounded, as
it
The
due
The
debate had
But Jesus
knew
will
by debate.
hi
some
other way.
the de-
144
struction of Jerusalem.
still lies
As Jesus
sat
on Olivet
to
he had longed
common
picture.
Language
after
pictographical.
all
It is
arate
picture of
doom.
And
come
tology
in that generation, as
is
indeed
it
did.
Escha-
theme makes
of
it
extremely
will
difficult
God
be taken from
The doom
final
of
judgment and
symbolize the
coming.
is
The main
be ready.
and now
for us
to
The
very uncertainty
demands
diligence,
not carelessness.
Jesus was
who
and
it
Lord
will prefer to
and be ready.
went down
to
They
left
the
summit
night.
Bethany that
What
a day
had been!
What
CHAPTER
VII
him" (Luke 23
31).
But
1.
it
went
to
Bethany.
An
They did
to
and gratitude
to Jesus.
Their hearts, at
feast.
John mentions
we
follow
to die.
The
not
fit
his
feet.
She wiped
145
hair.
146
But
of
every
lead
extravagance.
She found
champion,
however, in Jesus,
who understood
it
But
it
was a
distinct
rebuke
Judas and,
as
it
At
met
when
morning
they
felt
in the temple,
and
all
the
more
so that
now
so helpless.
They had
before
the
passover
made
public
proclamation of their
now
and
It is evident that
This
still
is
the part of
wisdom
kill
as
all
agree.
They
are
determined to
him
and themselves.
But
all
at once Judas,
the room.
At
147
Judas
relieves
their
fears
by
blurting
I will
out:
"What
liver
me and
:
deelse
15).
What
know.
He may have
he would
sible.
said that he
was
tired of the
in
it
whole
was nothing
for him,
and
was going
of a INIessiah
At the
lic
He knew
easily catch
wait
right
It
away.
seemed providential
Who
They were
glad,
which was
The
price
148
silver,
now What
It is
power
of the devil.
are,
men who
are
and wish
secret,
to
show
it
their spite.
The
act of
Judas was
but
knowledge of Christ.
that Jesus
The day was spent in rest at Bethany, for it was useless now to go again to Jerusalem to teach anyone. The die had been cast and
knew?
Jesus would take the consequences.
3.
Jesus'
How
will
they
stand
awful
catastrophe
effort to
before
them?
Christ will
his
arrest,
the mother of
stirred with
John Mark.
The
heart of Jesus
is
:
15
f).
in,
on the
spirit
of Christ
(Luke 22 24
:
f),
and
rebuking them
:
15).
It
149
bad as
it
One
drin.
of
to betray
him
to the
Sanhe-
The
it.
said
With
"Is
it I,
Lord ?"
Of
who
it
was,
by Christ nor
to
out.
was
night.
Jesus drew closer to the eleven and his heart went out to them.
those
He
who had
had Judas
for good,
and
was hard
after Peter.
sifting.
He had
So
all felt,
necessary.
If they
only knew!
to fight,
They
will
need to struggle
literal
now and
150
they
would
not
understand.
Probably
the
we
not Luke.
upper chamber
ordinance.
He
really
It is
meant
to
die.
That was
for
perfectly plain.
He
told
them
Holy
all
of Christianity.
insistent note in
was
their
They must
believe in
him as they
whom
They
send
He
will
and guide
to truth
and
life.
They must,
But
after all
in a word,
abide in him and love one another, for the world will
it
was
best
will explain
will
know what he
in a little while
now
trying to
make Thev
clear.
will see
him
when he
returns
151
They
will
have
his presence
through
INIoreover,
come again at the end of the world. He from the Father and is going back to came himself
He
will
the Father.
Thomas,
Philip,
Judas (not
Iscariot),
at
all
first
was
Now
If
at last they
seem
to appre-
be-
they say.
to
to
them.
Either while
still
the upper
room or
street outside,
men and
As
the other
through
all
the ages.
for himself
he
longed to
go back
fellowship.
solicitude.
As
he had great
He had done
now he
is
them while
in the
them
world
without him.
Satan
will seek to
win them.
He
now from
jeal-
on unimportant matters,
152
Jesus
is
the Saviour of
men and
It is
had shown
The Struggle
The
in the
it
Master had held up boldly while exhorting and consoling the disciples, but in reaUty he
was
depths himself.
is
own
is
breaking.
come
much
emotional talk.
hours
He had
Garden
custom
of
Gethsemane
and
it.
this
In his greatBesides
to
this spot.
many
to
was a comfort
him
communed
felt
The
him
on.
in his
coming
knew
so
he divided the
and taking
Peter,
153
to
Instantly Jesus
:
"began
never
amazed" (Mark 14 33). He had that way before. He turned to the three
into
and
said:
temptation"
all
(Luke 22
tions
40).
The
temptation
of
tempta-
to recoil
wliich he
it
to drink.
He
know
would be so
and he had
free
He was
from
smite
he prayed,
"O My
Aramaic
to
of his chiklhood.
How
He
could he endure
cried out against
"as Thou
wilt."
That was
victory, to
submit
to the Father.
An
till
his sweat
became, as
it
But
in
it
all
Jesus had
calmer.
asleep!
He
to sleep as the
Son
of
God
human
redemption.
It
they
They
had no excuse
154
How How
it
was
all
about.
in his
hour of
great
great need.
last
He
He would
5.
matters
little
now
to
It
should
voluntary
himself
to
his
Vain the
torches,
Roman
vain
all
weapons and
He
He
meet them.
in the temple.
He had
taken
lower
when he gave
the soldiers.
Peter's blood
was
and he
wanted
to fight.
He did
indeed try to
kill
Malchus, a
ear
servant of the
as he
High
Priest,
and cut
dodged
his head.
that
much
He
healed
155
ful-
and
must be
He must
It
:
Christ's
come
later.
The
re-
bade
in
their
doing anything.
The
spectacle of Christ
for them.
He had
them
always
not
now he would
fled, too,
do anything.
It
was
to take
after all
care of themselves.
his talk of courage.
Even Peter
came near
after
the
He had
to flee
Surely
it
now come.
Accusers.
To Judas
was
6.
all
easier than
he had thought.
Jesus Faces
His
Peter
and John
followed
him
High
Priest.
John
went on
court.
inside,
Now
Jesus
in
the
toils
of his enemies.
At
of
last
they have
him
they
effort.
How
chuckled
with satisfaction.
They
now show him who understands the law and whose theology is right. Thev will answer all The logic of persecution his arguments by death. that the truth cannot be The troubJe is limps badly. killed though you kill the man who teaches it. The
will
156
are two
Roman, though,
as a
matter of
fact,
only the
Roman was
would look
them
to
demand
of
it.
But
The Jewish
trial
it,
though the
Sanhedrin
disciples
is
assembling.
his
He
and
teaching with
a fling at both.
Christ with dignity appealed to the publicity and success of his work.
strike Jesus,
who
made a
blow.
in the
same
full
meeting,
with the
probable
exception
presides
Joseph
and Nicodemus.
Caiaphas
It
and
was
illegal to try
The
all.
at
157
of
and
the
misconstruction.
had
in
to pretend that
out,
and
himself.
There
if
was nothing
there
to
defend
himself
to
against, and,
incriminate himself.
priest
To
refuse to answer
legally,
but would
Morewill
over, the
day
will
come when
this
Sanhedrin
who
hand
of
power.
easier for
them
to
in voting that
he was
meet-
guilty of blasphemy.
dawn a
ratification
make a
trial
wrong
right.
Somewhere
Jewish
the
It is
a sorPeter
had been
specially
He
158
in the
had Hght as
go
to the
well as heat.
to
door by the
He
did
whose ear he
garden
had cut
with
off,
said
"
Did not
:
Him?"
all
(John 18
26).
Peter lost
like
an adept
of Jesus.
He
He went
until
in
The Gospels
vary
many
but somehow
occurred.
Before
Pilate
the
accusers
come with
quite
different charges.
political,
not
religious accusations.
The
first
charge of pervert-
was mere
fiction.
The
second one of
forbidding to give tribute to Caesar was a downright falsehood, the very thing that they
had
tried
The
be a king was
this, that
he would not
be a temporal king.
The
150
them
to use
it.
When
he
is
does not at
all
infringe
He
own
de-
he
is
innocent.
Surely this
is
a strange
Pilate catches at
to
him
Herod Antipas,
nothing but
who
quickly sends
him back.
He was
a puzzle to him.
He
But the
chief
up the people
Pilate
make a
In disof
gust
he
surrenders,
repeating
the
innocence
more
recoils
Csesar at him.
They
to be a rival king.
It
was
it.
and
done
not he.
He
his soul.
all
had
There
was
guilt
enough
for
all.
The
crucify Jesus
was a nightmare
to Pilate
and
is
a stain
160
that
It is
a dreadful
story,
verse.
came
to
redeem
to his
Israel
and
Israel
re-
crucified him.
He came
ceived
him
not, preferred a
highway robber
to him,
glee.
own
cross,
pressed to carry
after
by the
fearful night.
his fate
The women of Jerusalem who bewailed little knew what would befall their fair city
of this deed.
because
up.
In a sense
literally
of Barabbas,
who
hill
the
like
ringleader
skull,
of
them.
Upon
city,
the
shaped
overlooking the
they nailed
He would
mingled with
gall or
would go
would
into the
brain.
He He
taste the
first
The
to 12 noon,
But
Kil
who
did not
know
their
blind
rage
He
practised
But while
had a spasm
of stubbornness
point.
He
on the
been
drin.
sentenced
He
run over
to his
all
The
The sword
so
in
who can
unutterable hour.
He
home
led
in
Jerusalem.
One
Jesus was
now a
fallen
idoKand they
gleefully hurled
Son
of
God,
the Christ,
King
of Israel, his
power
to build the
temple
in
three days.
Why
see
not step
down from
That
will
we may
and believe?
convert us
all!
of the
162
Sanhedrin,
themselves in their
by
his side.
Even
them,
in in
till
one of
rebuke to the
down on this scapegoat between them came to his senses and turned other. The revulsion was so great
to faith in Jesus.
him
that he
swung over
That
was
dom
in
such an hour as
this.
He
trusted that a
better
for Christ,
and
there,
Paradise.
aye,
Even on the
who
are saved.
if
nature
veil
The
of
when
silence reigned.
The mocking
It
awe
for
fell
all.
was not an
it
of the full
moon.
The
stillness
was
at last
felt
broken by
a cry of desolation
from Jesus.
He
that
somehow
be
sin,
He
not
was made
left to feel
to
who knew no
sin,
and he was
We may
:
was John 3
16.
It
had made
possible
163
He
took a sip
:
and
(John 19
30).
only defeat.
his lips,
He saw victory where the devil and the Sanhedrin saw He died with a cry of resignation on
and gave up
his spirit to the Father.
And
of
all
the light
of his eye.
The
great artists
when Jesus
opened,
rection,
many saints were who themselves came forth after his resurso Matthew records (Matt. 27 53). The
died.
:
Roman
greatly impressed
He
made and
faithful
a good
man
put to
death.
The
The
all.
women
stood alone
and watched
it
When
the soldiers
came
to finish the
work
that the
to
saw a
things:
One
that he
was a
real
1G4
still
remained
in
him,
The
true (19
35).
The
will
all,
just as timid
in
women
often be
lions
a great
crisis.
They
two
took this stand for Jesus after his star had sunk
out of sight.
Let
it
be put
men
cost
when
it
most
to
do
so,
when
in fact
many
of the leading
disciples
faithful.
were
in
hiding.
They watched
new tomb
was
laid,
where Jesus
watched
till
was a
restless
Sabbath
They
but
uneasy.
They
Pilate
John the
Baptist.
They gave
out
to
At
165
was out
No more
to the
would he
people.
lace.
tri-
umphant.
from
this
the
Kingdom
of
God
They could
stroke themselves
Did he
it
He
will
never do
still
thank heaven.
hear
Was
he really dead, or
was
it
all
again
strained.
8.
That was
all.
The
masters
Sabbath seemed an
eternity.
The
excitement
The
Sanhedrin were
grim
the
situation.
at times,
him
and perhaps
his wife
still
had dreams.
The Roman
new re-
soldiers gossiped
been
crucified.
The
power
who
after all
Prophet of
The
Galilean
multitudes
which
had
166
Many
of
them
"I
told
you so."
in
that
some
who
They were
the scholars
of orthodoxy.
to believe
do was
rabbis.
silent.
them by the
What
now ?
It
What had
It
the
And now
this!
was too
much
to
understand.
He
lieve
him
against
all
the world.
dead.
their
The other women had too much grief of own to comfort her. And what could they say ? The disciples were scattered like sheep without a
Judas the
traitor
shepherd.
had committed
suicide.
John was
bequest to his
own woe in fulfilling Jesus' dying mother. The other disciples were not
Ah, but they
they had deserted
167
hour of need.
fectly true
and brave
in
it all,
The hopes
tomb.
in the
No more
Kingdom.
To
their
was
all
over with
tri-
umphed.
tomb.
The hope
of the world
was buried
in that
The enemies
It is
of Jesus
drin
God by
this
and Jerusalem
Sab-
promise and
answer.
main
in that
tomb
Did he remain
tomb ?
The
light of the
Righteousness
rise
On
one expected
all
it.
All
had
that Christ
The
the-
down with a
crash beout-
168
The
tolled
of those
whom
him
sympathy
in the
But
in this
who had
him.
CHAPTER
VIII
JESUS
:
risen
indeed" (Luke 24
34).
The
stars.
True, Jesus
The
cruel,
blighting,
staggering
fact of the
He had
after
now
With him
their hopes.
It
mentary eclipse of
but settled night.
full this situation
faith that
It is
No
conspiracy
to
revive
conceivable.
If Chris-
tianity
belief in the
difficult
Risen
it
Saviour,
was
170
be said
that the
women imagined
that they
to
the
women.
conflicting,
shows indethis is
pendence
in the testimony.
theological interpretation of
the disciples, one must recall the fact that the narratives tell unhesitatingly their
own
blunders, short-
resurrection of Jesus.
fact of
The
disciples
saw
Jesus.
To
not
saw
make
it
easier of belief.
spirit.
a miracle to see a
disembodied
The hopes
of the
human
race centre in
at this time.
The Fact
of the
Empty Tomh.
new
This
was the
It is
discovery of the
the
first
women and
admitted by
all.
situation.
The
in
having the
Roman
seal
on the
JESUS
171
watch
it.
that no
man
could
steal
body
of
Jesus.
When
the
They
came out
Did
Not much.
believe
now undertook
fact
is
the hardest
power
than a
of rejuvenation.
fact.
man
San-
to the
were told to
if
say.
own safety to say what they One may remark in passing that,
knew nothing
took
the
to
The Sanhedrin
But
to return
them with
Pilate.
women.
of faithful
women gave
Roman
After
which
till
to anoint the
and
then rested
dawn
was
they started,
They
172
away
all lo,
it
But,
the stone
What
by
his
could
mean?
gestion
Had
body been
stolen
enemies?
them.
They
entered
timidly
the open
At a glance
is
not there.
This
the
first
The Story
of the Angels.
The
empty tomb.
weakened
for
But
men can
rise
it
may be
is
women have
is ?
only
risen.
"Why
not here
among
the dead
He
is
but
is
It is the angels
who
women
rise
would
They
now
begin to understand.
it
thought of
before.
The women
.JESUS
:
173
28).
(Mark 14
Astonishment,
on
their mission.
Was
all
true?
The
?
women
alive.
3.
at least
seem
to
But what
Johns
Intuition.
The
rection of Jesus
The
probof
lem
was how
to convince
them
this fact.
was impossible
to revive faith
and hope
dead.
in
as
still
The
depended on the
and John.
Peter
grief
is
longer
alone.
Common
body
back.
They
Mary
supposed.
They must
first,
see
if
it
be true.
Peter
in,
7).
To
this sensitive
174
spiritual
had indeed
It
was no grave
at all in such
one
side.
believed."
still
more matter
would
and
doubted.
But
if
he was
It
No
was
still
an unsolved mystery.
The
soldiers alone
tell
the
The mouths
of the
had
more
seriously.
It
was a grave
situation
on the whole.
Perhaps, how-
Were
ever,
spirit
ished to bother
4.
left
them no more.
After
the
had been
is
the
One might
argue that
JESUS
all
17.j
women
started
it
out of their
women
to
their
testimony
was confirmed.
I
So another
have none
solution
offer.
the
out,
mother of Jesus.
weeping
in
inconsolable grief.
it is
was bad
far worse.
last
To
have
extremity
The
joy.
She gave the angels the same answer of perconcerning what had been done with the
plexity
body
of Jesus,
whom
The
very soul
Mary went
when she
tell
said: "Sir,
me where
thou
will
take him
away" (John
20
15).
It
The answer
to
was the
to a
first
is
known
have spoken
it
human
was
simply "Mary."
of voice.
possible that
Besides
It
some
extent.
176
apprehend him
at
first,
and some-
By
the open
grave
boni."
Mary saw
say,
"Raball
She ventured
to lay her
He
here at
be-
He
stops
is
to glory
and
He
calls
them
sends
"My
God
is
the Father.
He
a message
Father.
to
them that he
other
The
women had
them
Galilee.
Both
them.
Mary
all
18).
But no
quiet.
John heard
fast.
this,
he kept
Doubt held
be
true.
It
the apostles
It
Mary.
5.
Women.
He
met the
women on
way from
9
though Luke 24
livered the
may
had de-
JESUS
177
them
in Galilee.
And
it
yet he
them
in Jerusalem.
Was
that he
was gradually
getting
them ready
for seeing
him?
much
strengthen-
in
Jerusalem were
Synoptics
all
The
day
and some
of the Jeru-
salem appearances on
this first
also.
No more
:
women.
6.
It
was
to
them
as idle talk
the
(Luke 24
11).
Unexpected Light on
lived
at
Problem.
Cleopas
and a friend
west of Jerusalem.
first
Emmaus, some eight miles They had come into town this
if
to see
disciples
on the
was
way
in
all
dark
all
over as they
was a time
whole
to ex-
Each sought
work
of this marvellous
man and
asked
Why
was
much promise
if it
was
all to
end thus ?
stranger joined
them and
it
Finally he asked
what
was
about.
stood
still,
looking sad"
(Luke 24:17).
"They Where
178
Had
he hved
lips in these
They
briefly
recounted the
and
They added what had been hope about him, a hope now buried in
"
their
own
the tomb.
We
it
Israel."
The
nation's
hope had
around
him.
It
looked-for Messiah.
But now
it
is all
over, for he
It is true that
some
of
women had a
to
be
so,
who
alleged that
When
they
left
The
stranger
now began
to talk.
He
took up the
of
had outlined
in
it,
tallied
Messiah
it
the Scriptures.
for the
He
even
to
argued that
suffer.
was necessary
Messiah
It
interesting interpreit.
tation to
It
was
They had never heard it put that way before. But they are at home and must stop. The stranger hesi-
JESUS
179
and started
to
go on.
Only upon
their urgent
Across
now
at
sat
They looked
The women
and was
alive.
They must
It
was
in the
that
had
come
to pass.
of the meeting.
special
But
to
crown
Peter.
it
Simon
The news
apostles.
He was
the
women
had been.
of
all
was a
If
crisis of Christianity,
the crisis
crises.
all
dead, then
was not
still
was won.
There would
for Christianity.
do not disband.
next step.
women were
180
Possibly in
cer-
There would
all
these personal
was
alive.
Perhaps
all
told
how he looked
and what he
It
said.
What had
was the
first
The
rest
it
that
was
said.
Was
valid evidence?
Was
it
conclusive?
after all?
Emmaus come
they can
tell it,
Before
risen indeed,
:
and hath
last
32).
This
was
Then
did init
was.
The
As they talked
of Jesus all at
once he stood in
He had
risen
?
were now
terrified
now
allege.
reit
JESUS
ISI
He showed them
hands and
his side
spirit,
30).
difficulty,
and blood
body
is
The
resurrection
spiritual
body.
is
But one
entirely
of Jesus
He
not as
it
it
would
He
could
fish.
We
to
do with
God and
nature.
But
no more
difficult
resurrection,
this
occasion that
alive.
us that
was
the foundation of
They have a
it.
win
now
182
21).
They
are to announce
is
men
Their task
now
to convince others.
Can
Jesus
is
They have
themselves.
They
faith,
The
Case of
Thomas.
They
in the
soon
meet
company
upper room.
They
move
try to convince
seen the
him by saying: "We have Lord" (John 20:25), and fail utterly to
his unbelief.
He was
still
as sceptical as they
prints of
I see
all
the rest.
There
is
the foe
of all credulity.
Christianity
wishes
Still
its
Thomas
JESUS
183
man who
prides himself on
his scepticism.
On
same
just
the next
Sunday the
meet again
in the
to
them
now though he
to-night
?
with them in
spirit.
Will he
come
Who
can
tell ?
They have
to Galilee
alive.
They have
developments.
rulers
The
must be kept
situation.
Thomas
is
there to-night.
He had
to him,
If
"My
faster
Lord
and
My God"
rest.
(John
20:28).
now grew
Lord
He
hails Jesus as
reservation.
Christ allowed
this
who "have
This
184
beatitude belongs to
of us
who
are convinced of
John adds
is
here,
the reason
why
Surely
though
fiercely
make
artist
no one
believes.
By
the
Sea of
Galilee.
body
the
Paul said) on
mountain
in
Galilee.
There was
much
of the
work
of Christ.
At every turn
They had left their all and cast their fortunes with the new teacher on these shores. Had it been
Jesus.
worth while ?
What
it
now ?
Truly
Most
of
them
That
was enough
at
Six of them
fished all
They
185
for the
dawn when
dim
light
voice
came
to
"children" as applied to them in address was apparently unusual, but John's fine spiritual sense perceived
is
the
Lord" (John
21
7).
The
sight
The
in the early
morning
is
wonderful indeed.
It Avas
turned to Simon.
a
fire
One
and
this of itself
was
back
memory.
He
moment
though
all
men
faithful
Time makes
in
short
work
of the boaster
poor shape to
say a word.
and even
his
very love
itself
186
question
heart.
to the
re-
The
result
was
gratifying indeed
and
in
Peter 5
1-11.
He
is
now
horts
bim have
availed.
Jesus ex-
him
to feed the
sheep and he
will later
(I
urge the
:
God"
Peter 5
2).
ran in disgrace.
humble he
will
is
But Simon
Simon
still
in his
curiosity leads
shall this
him
"And what
22).
Peter's ques-
tion bordered
would
live
till
that
be bapin
was soon
10.
On
a Mountain in Galilee.
The
location of
date.
this
for
word
to
reach them.
was a
JESUS
187
visible
hundred
to
disciples.
The
grain of mustard-seed
had begun
earth.
Some few
still
doubted,
having a hard
Redeemer.
Jesus
met
this
conquering host.
a magnificent
No
programme
down,
world.
No
more
certain of victory.
is
Christ
transcendent
had no money, no
the
of
objected by some
is
Commission
is
too ecclesiastical
is
to
open
command.
of the
we
get elsewhere.
lays
It is
a missionary propa-
as
members
Kingdom
of
God, redeemed
is
indi-
viduals.
The
local
church
God's
appointed
means
for carrying
on the work
of the
kingdom, but
188
The
In Jerusalem Again.
The
Apostles
now
re-
rection
will
also.
They
itself,
will seek to
for
now
they
know
tion
that
God
is
James, the
and
is
now
and the
rest.
Mary,
new song
in
her heart.
She can sing a new Magnificai, with She had indeed seen the salvation
a clearer
faith.
of the Lord.
salem.
rulers
toward him
for
coming out
of the tomb.
them a
Old Testament,
for
Testament.
He
was, and
is,
He found
himself in the
JESUS
189
disciples
(Luke 24
45).
The open
and more
mind
is
difficult to get.
The
closed
mind
is
of Scripture
truth.
minds
in the
Once more
are the very
Christ
That
life
the
main
thing.
INIissions
of
Christianity.
for
wait in Jerusalem
to
The
will
dynamo
is
absolutely necessary.
They
not,
soon receive the Holy Spirit and then they must world
enterprise.
till
undertake this
They
all
are
of Jerusalem
won.
That
is
They
look for a
6),
gone.
A
its
Last
View on Mt.
Olivet.
Jesus
led the
Gethsemane
with
tragic
Mt.
Nebo,
Jerusalem,
the
1
:
"They were
looking
up"
(Acts
9)
190
Till
He
Come.
Their
of the
in-
terrupted by the
word
Jesus"
will so
11).
He had
said so himself.
that he
In a
Holy
Spirit
and
will
come
nature of the
Kingdom
of
:
God.
And now
they
The
pret,
still
is
and
to
obey Jesus.
in
The
Christian world
is
engaged
His
life
and
and
resurrection, his
power over
men
all
to uplift
and
to
make
themes,
still fill
modern world.
is
barren be-
He
Most
of all
still
he
endures the
test of life.
looks
upon
us, his
powerful hand
When
Lord
comes again he
of Lords.
Meanwhile
him
hearts.
Jesus."
INDEX
Abraham
Aeons Alexander
15 18
60
28
of
f..
Andrew
Angeb, story
Anna
Annas Answer of Jerusalem Aramaic
any
Ascension Attack upon Jerusalem Augustine
13,
43 ff. 172 26
156 S. 145
9,
DecapolLs 86, 102 Declaration of Principles. ... 61 Demonology 85 Description of the Twelve.. .60 f. Despair of John the Baptist.. 71 Dies a shameful death 160 Docetic Gnosticism 11
.
43
Ebionites
10, 15,
Egypt
Elijah
26 43
Emmaus
Examination
of the
Twelve.
45
16
...
empty tomb
Beelzebub
Father's sanction of the Son. Final Triumph of Jesus First appeal of Jesus
First disciples First glimpse of Jesus First miracle Foretaste of the struggle. Foster. G. B
169 26
28 6
.
. .
31 139
3
10 114
52
129 3 104 12 117 2
141
76 89
Buddha
Caesar Csesarea Philippi
106
137, 156
flF.
40
43 83
Ill 9
4 Campaign in Judea 126 ('aperiiaum 33, 43 fif. ('a,ie of Thomas 182 ( 'eph;v.s 29 Challenge to Jerusalem 137 China 45 Choice of the Twelve 59 ('horazin 106 Cleopas 177 Concern for the Disciples. 148 Conference of the DLsciples. 179 Conflict over the Sal)bath. 151 Connection with John the Baptist's work 26 Corinthian Gnostics 17
.
89
13
104, 140
62 54
Interview
scholar
with
Jewish 37
101
160 160
ff.
woman
I.saiah I.ssue with ties
39
41
ff.
Jerusalem authori-
Dalmanutha David
104
54
191
33 188
192
James
INDEX
Phopnicia
Pilate
9, 43 ff. Jeremiah 107 Jerusalem 15, 32 ff. Jerusalem authorities renew their attack.. 93 Jerusalem conspirators out.
100 158
ff
ff.
Plato
2
1
143
the
witted at home 121 174 Jesus and Mary 176 Jesus and the other women. Johannine presentation of 23 Jesus
.
98
76 77
169
ff. ff.
dom
Repels attack Resurrection of Jesus Roman people
John...
4,
10
ff.
John's intuition at the tomb. 173 John the Baptist 15 ff. 105 Jonah Jordan 15 ff. Joseph 9, 10 Judas 148 ff. Judas, not Iscariot 151
Rome
Sadducees Samaria Sanhedrin
Sanhedrin's desperation
90
10
104
ff.
ff.
39
25
131
Jude
Kenosis
Last visit to Nazareth Lazarus Levi
9
13
85 140 47 f.
7, 9ff.
Luke
62, 100
Magadan
Malchus
104 154 Mark 10, 40, 148 ff. Mary Magdalen 76 ff. Mary, mother of Jesus 7, 9 ff. Mary of Bethany 145 ff. Matthew 9 ff. 43 Mesopotamia Messianic consciousness of 1 Jesus Moral issue iji the temptation, 18
26
2
152
43
10 101
18 24
Temptation
Naaman
Nain Nathanael Nazareth
30
Terms used
42 72
30, 31
ff.
of Christ of Jesus
86
151
ff.
Thomas
Thucydides
Tiberius
Till
New departure New home New lesson New organization New style of teaching
Nicodemus North American Review
62
190 165 98 Ill 145 ff. 69 62, 102
51
he come
44 109
Tomb
Training of the Twelve Transfiguration
Trial
56 80
156
ff.
Two ways
Tyre
Unexpected
light
12
.
On
a mountain
in Galilee.
188
ff.
ff.
80
14
ff.
Pharisees Philip
107 3 23 ff. 29 f.
Wrede
Zaeharias
13.
3 26
Zarephath
42
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