HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER — continued. 46. Not that any man bath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. 47 Verly, verily, I say unto you, He that be- ! heveth on me had everasting it.

48 I am that bread of e.

49 Your fathers di eat manna in the wildermess, and are dead.

50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the ife of the world.

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52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh

to eat?

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53. Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

Many of his Disciples offended.

60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

JESUS.

61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

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HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER →→ continued. 62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

His foreknowledge.

64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

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He declares his Power to raise the Dead, - his Self-existence and Equality with God, and that he, in human Nature, as the Son of Man, was the Son of God, and Judge of the World. Jesus Christ, as God, was equal with the Father, consequently the one could do nothing without the other. In the Character of our Mediator he is represented as the Ambassador of God.

JESUS.

17 But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

THE JEWS.

18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

JESUS.

19 Then answered Jesus, and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. .

20 For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

22 For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son;

23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son, honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

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HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER — continued.

24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live.

26 For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself; 27 And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

John was his Witness.

31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is

not true.

32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

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33 Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness John v. unto the truth.

34 But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

35 He was a burning and a shining light; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

His Father and the Miracles which he performed attest his Divine Mission as Mediator and Saviour.

36 But I have greater witness than that of John for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

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38 And ye have not his word abiding in you
for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
Unbelief is death.

The Scriptures bear Witness.

39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

40 ̊ And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

41 I receive not honour from men.

42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.

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43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye John v. receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.

Moses wrote of him.

46 For had ye believed Moses, ye would have` believed me: for he wrote of me.

47 But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

Much given to Devotion, Prayer, and Retirement.

12 And it came to pass in those days, that he' went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

"Cold mountains and the midnight air
Witness the fervor of his prayer;

The desert his temptation knew,
His conflict and his victory too."

He knew Men's Thoughts.

23 Now, when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast-day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.

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