80 Sheweth the way to Everlasting Life. : A. D. THIRTY-TWO.-CAPERNAUM. and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise him up at the last day. It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 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 life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 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. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. 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. : These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. Many therefore of his disciples, when they heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the Peter confesseth Christ. 81 A. D. THIRTY-TWO.-CAPERNAUM. spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who would betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away ? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? He spoke of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. * After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him. John vii. 1. CHAPTER V. FROM OUR LORD'S THIRD PASSOVER UNTIL HIS FINAL DEPARTURE FROM GALILEE AT THE FESTIVAL OF TABERNACLES. TIME-About Twelve Months. SECTION 1. Christ justifieth his disciples, and reproveth the Pharisees.— § 2. Healeth the daughter of the woman of Canaan.-§ 3. Healeth the deaf and stammering man.—§ 4. Christ feedeth four thousand.— § 5. Refuseth to give a sign to the Pharisees; and warneth his disciples of the leaven of the Pharisees.-§ 6. Giveth sight to a blind man. Peter again confesseth his faith in Christ.-§ 7. Christ foresheweth his death and resurrection, and the trials of his followers. -§ 8. Christ's transfiguration and subsequent discourse with the three disciples.— § 9. Casteth out a dumb and deaf spirit.-§ 10. Again foretelleth his death and resurrection. Miraculously provideth the tribute money.— § 11. He exhorteth his disciples to be humble and harmless, and how to treat offending brethren.-§ 12. Christ instructeth and sendeth out seventy disciples to work miracles and to preach.-§ 13. Goeth up to Jerusalem to the Feast of Tabernacles, teacheth in the temple: divers opinions of Christ.-§ 14. Delivereth the woman taken in adultery.— § 15. Proclaimeth himself to be the light of the world, and justifieth his doctrine.-§ 16. Restoreth, on the Sabbath day, sight to the man that was born blind. Christ's subsequent discourses thereon.-§ 17. The seventy disciples return with joy.-§ 18. Christ teacheth the lawyer how to obtain eternal life, by the parable of the good Samaritan. -§ 19. Again teacheth his disciples how to pray.-§ 20. Healeth the crooked woman.—§ 21. Answereth the question, whether few only are to be saved.-§ 22. Cures performed on the Sabbath day by Christ, when entertained by one of the chief Pharisees, and teacheth them humility by the parable of the great supper.-§ 23. Teacheth those who would be his disciples, that they must bear the cross.§ 24. Reproveth the Scribes and Pharisees, and excuseth himself from communing with publicans and sinners, by the parables of Christ justifieth his Disciples. A. D. THIRTY-TWO. GALILEE. 83 the lost sheep, the piece of silver, and the prodigal son.-§ 25. Reproveth the covetousness and hypocrisy of the Pharisees by the parables of the unjust steward, and of the rich glutton and the beggar.-§ 26. Christ being rejected by the Samaritans, inculcates to his indignant disciples, forbearance, faith, and humility. Healeth the ten lepers. Section 1*. Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen hands, they found fault. For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brazen vessels, and of tables. Then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandments of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, whosoever curseth father or mother let him die the death; but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; making the word of God of none effect * Mark vii. 1 to 17. 84 Reproveth the Pharisees. A. D. THIRTY-TWO.-GALILEE. through your tradition, which ye have delivered and many such like things do ye. : And when he had called all the people unto him, He said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand there is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. If any man have ears to hear let him hear. And when he had entered into the house from the people, then came his disciples and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? +Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: all these evil things come from within, and defile the man. § 2. Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid. For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, * Matt. xv. 12 to 16. Mark vii. 18 to 23. Mark vii. 24 to 26. Matt. xv. 21. |