HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER continued. him, Say we not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? JESUS. 49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I 51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man THE JEWS. 52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death. 53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? JESUS. 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad. THE JEWS. 57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? JESUS. 58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. They were about to stone him. 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by. A Division of Sentiment. 19 There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. John viii. John viii. 20 ̊ And many of them said, He hath a devil, John x. and is mad; why hear ye him? 21 Others said, These are not the words of HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER continued. him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes 22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the 23 And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch. THE JEWS. 24 Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. JESUS. 25 Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's John x. name, they bear witness of me. 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand. 29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and none is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and my Father are one. They again attempt to stone him. 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. JESUS. 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? THE JEWS. 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and John x. because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. JESUS. 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35 If he called them gods unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER-continued. sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God? 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. John x. They attempt to take him. He goes to reside beyond Jordan. but he escaped out of their hand, 40 And went away again beyond Jordan, unto John x. the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. Many believe. 41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. 42 And many believed on him there. JESUS. 44 Jesus cried, and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him : the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. He pays Tribute to the Romans, to avoid giving Offence. John x. John xii. 27 Notwithstanding, lest we should offend Matt. them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and xvii. HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER - continued. take up the fish that first cometh up; and when Matt. xvii. He is followed by a Multitude into a Desert, many of whom he heals. 13 When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. 14 And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. Matt. xiv. His humble Origin is a Stumbling-block to many, because of the Pride, Unbelief, and Hardness of their Hearts, which prevents the Exertion of his Mercy and Power in doing them good. 52 Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. 53 And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence. 54 And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter's son ? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. 58 And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief. 1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him. 2 And when the sabbath-day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence, Matt. xiii. Mark vi. HIS OWN PUBLIC MINISTRY AND CHARACTER continued. hath this man these things? and what wisdom is 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, 4 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house. 5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. 6 And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching. Mark vi. He acquits a Woman who had been taken in Adultery, and dismisses her with a Divine Admonition. 1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, (John as though he heard them not. 7 So, when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, viii. |