Jn. xvi. 25. bliss will be full. Now I, as a man, cannot tell you this clearly in words, but when I, as the spirit of truth, shall live in you, I will proclaim to you clearly about the Father. 26. Then it will not be I who will give you all you ask of the Father in the name of the spirit. 27. But the Father will Himself give, because He loves you for having received my teaching. 28. You have understood that understanding proceeds from the Father into the world and returns from the world to the Father."

29. Then the disciples said to Jesus: "Now we have understood everything, and have 30. nothing more to ask, we believe that you are from God."

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And Jesus said: "All that I have said to you is in order that you may have confidence and rest in my teaching. Whatever ills may befall you in the world, fear nothing: my teaching will conquer the world."

After this, Jesus raised his eyes to heaven, and said:

"My Father! Thou hast given Thy Son the freedom of life in order that he may receive the true life. Life is the knowledge of the true God of the understanding, Who is 6. discovered to me. I have discovered Thee to 4. men on earth; I have done that work which Thou hast bidden me do. I have shown Thy 6. being to men on earth. They were Thine before, but by Thy will I have discovered to 7 them the truth, and they know Thee. They 8. have understood that all they have, their life,

is from Thee only, and that I have taught them, not of myself, but as proceeding, I with 9. them, from Thee. But I pray to Thee for 10, those who acknowledge Thee. They have II. understood that all that I have is Thine, and

all that is Thine is mine. I am no longer in the world, for I return to Thee; but they are in

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and watched where they were taking him. When they brought Jesus into the court of the high priest, Peter went in also, to see how all would end. And a girl in the yard saw Peter, Mt. xxvi. 69. and said to him: "You, also, were with Jesus of Galilee." Then Peter was afraid that they would accuse him also, and he said aloud before all the people: "I do not know what you are talking about." Afterward, when they had taken Jesus into the house, Peter also entered the hall, with the people. In the hall, a woman was warming herself at the fire, and Peter approached. The woman looked at Peter, and said to the people: "See, this man is likely to have been with Jesus of Nazareth." Peter was still more frightened, and swore that he never was with him, and did not even know what kind of a man Jesus was. A little while after, the people came up to Peter, and said: "It is quite clear that you also were among the disturbers. By your speech one may know that you are from Galilee." Then Peter began to swear, and aver that he had never known or seen Jesus.

And he had hardly said this, when the cock crew. And Peter remembered those words which Jesus had said to him, when Peter swore that if all denied Jesus, he would not deny him: "Before the cock crow this night, you will deny me thrice." And Peter went out, and cried bitterly. Jesus had prayed that he might not thus fall into temptation. He had fallen into one temptation, that of strife, when he began to defend Jesus; and into another temptation, the fear of death, when he denied Jesus.

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And there gathered to the high priest, the Mk xiv. 53. orthodox chief priests, assistants, and officials. And when all were assembled, they brought in Jn. xviii. 19. Jesus; and the chief priests asked him, what was his teaching, and who were his followers.

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And Jesus answered: "I always said all I had to say before everybody openly, and so I speak now; I concealed nothing from any 21. one, and I conceal nothing now. But about what do you question me? Question those who heard and understood my teaching. They will tell you."

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When Jesus had said this, one of the high priest's servants struck him in the face, and said: "To whom are you speaking? Is this the way to answer the high priest?"

Jesus said: "If I spoke ill, say what I spoke ill. But if I said nothing ill, then there is no cause to beat me."

The orthodox chief priests strove to accuse Jesus, and at first did not find any proofs against him for which it was possible to condemn him. 60, Afterward they found two witnesses. These 61. said about Jesus: "We ourselves heard how this man said: 'I will destroy this temple of yours made with hands, and in three days will build up another temple to God, not made with 59. hands.”” But this evidence, also, was not 62. enough to condemn him. And therefore the high priest called up Jesus, and said: "Why do you not answer their evidence?"

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Jesus held his tongue, saying nothing. Then the high priest said to him: "Well, say then, Are you the Christ, and of God?"

Jesus answered him, and said: "Yes, I am the Christ, and of God. You yourselves will now see that the Son of Man is made like God."

Then the high priest cried out: "You blaspheme! Now we do not want any evidence. We all hear, now, that you are a blasphemer." 66. And the high priest turned to the assembly, and said: "You have yourselves heard that he blasphemes God. To what do you sentence him for this?"

And all said: "We sentence him to death."

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the world, and therefore I pray Thee, Father, to preserve in them Thy understanding. I do Ja. xvii. 15. not pray Thee to remove them from the world, but to free them from evil; to confirm them in Thy truth. Thy understanding is the truth. My Father! I wish them to be as I am; to understand as I do, that the true life began before the beginning of the world. That they should all be one; as Thou, Father, art in me, and I in Thee, so they may also be one in me. I in them, Thou in me, so that all may be one; so that all men may understand they are not self-created, but that Thou, in love, hast sent them into the world as Thou didst send me. Father of truth! the world did not know Thee, but I knew Thee, and they have known Thee through me. And I have made plain to them what Thou art. Thou art in me, that the love with which Thou hast loved me may be in them also. Thou gavest them life, and therefore didst love them. I have taught them to know this, and to love Thee; so that Thy love might be returned from them to Thee."

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CHAPTER XII

THE VICTORY OF THE SPIRIT OVER THE FLESH

Therefore, for him who lives, not the self-life, but a common life in the will of the Father, there is no death. Bodily death is for him union with the Father

("Thine is the kingdom, power, and glory")

AFTER this, Jesus said: "Now arise, and Mt. xxvi. 46. let us go; already he is coming who will betray me.'

And he had hardly said this, when suddenly Judas, one of the twelve disciples, appeared, and with him a great throng of people with

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Mt. xxvi. 48. sticks and swords. Judas said to them: "I will bring you where he and his followers are, and so that you may know him among them all, he whom I shall first kiss, that is he." 49. And he straightway went up to Jesus, and said: "Hail, teacher!" and kissed him.

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And Jesus said to him: "Friend, why are you here?"

Then the guard surrounded Jesus, and wished to take him.

And Peter snatched the sword from the high priest's servant, and slashed the man's

ear.

But Jesus said: "You must not oppose evil. Cease." And he said to Peter: “Return the sword to him from whom you took it; he who shall draw the sword, shall perish with the sword."

And after this, Jesus turned to the crowd, and said: "Why have you come out against me, as against a robber, with arms? I was every day among you in the temple, and taught Lk. xxii. 53. you, and you did not take me. But now is your hour, and the power of darkness."

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Then, having seen that he was taken, all the disciples ran away.

And the officer ordered the soldiers to take Jesus, and bind him. The soldiers bound him, 13. and took him first to Annas. This was the

father-in-law of Caiaphas, and Caiaphas was the high priest for that year, and lived in the 14. same house with Annas. This was the same Caiaphas who planned how to destroy Jesus. He held that it was good for the sake of the people to destroy Jesus, because, if that were not done, it would be worse for the whole peoMk. xiv. 53. ple. And they took Jesus to the house where this high priest lived.

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When they had brought Jesus thither, one of his disciples, Peter, followed him from afar,