ness, and yet they died; this is bread the twelve, Will ye also go away? coming from heaven, that any one Simon Peter answered, Master, to may eat of it, and not die. I am whom shall we go? thou hast the living bread that came from heaven: words of eternal life. if any one 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.

SELECTION XXXIII.

Jesus shows that he is one with the Father in spirit and in purpose; but denies the charge of putting himself on an equality with God.

THEN said they to him, Where is

thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me nor my Father: if ye had known my Father ye would have known me also.

13 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, except ye eat the flesh of the son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall have no life in you: whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my 2 Therefore the Jews sought the blood, hath eternal life; and I will more to kill him, because he not only exalt him at the last day: for my had broken the sabbath, but said flesh is meat indeed, and my blood also that God was his Father, putis drink indeed. ting himself on an equality with. God.

14 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him :-even 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 bread from heaven: not as your fathers did eat, and died; he that eateth of this bread shall live for

ever.

3 Then answered Jesus, Truly, truly, I say to you, The son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do. As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the son to have life in himself; 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 who hath sent me. I and the Father are one.

15 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum. And many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, This is a 4 Then the Jews took up stones difficult saying; who can understand again to stone him. Jesus said to it? When Jesus knew that his dis- them, Many good works have I ciples murmured at it, he said to showed you from my Father; for them, It is the spirit that quick- which of those works do ye stone eneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: me? The Jews answered, For a the words that I speak to you, they good work we stone thee not; but are spirit and they are life. for blasphemy, because thou, be16 From that time many of his ing a man, makest thyself a god. disciples went back, and walked no Jesus answered them, Is it not writmore with him. Then said Jesus to ten in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

If he called them gods, to whom the 9 Then spake Jesus again to them, saying, I am a light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk

word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, in darkness, but shall have the light and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am son of God?

5 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not: but if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works that ye may know, and understand, that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

6 Then said Jesus to them, When

of life.

10 Search the scriptures; in them ye think ye have eternal life and they testify of me.

III receive not honor from men. 12 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.

God only?

13 How can ye believe, who reye have lifted up the son of man, ceive honor one of another, and then shall ye know that I am noth-seek not the honor that cometh from ing of myself, and do nothing of myself as my Father hath taught me, I speak; and he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

7 As he spake these words, many believed on him. Then said he to those Jews who believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We are Abraham's children, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, Whosoever committeth sin is the bond-slave of sin.

8 Then said they to him, We are not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent

SELECTION XXXIV.

Jesus shows that the true shepherd of men is he who loves them unselfishly and is willing, if need be, to give his life for them.

TRULY, truly, I say to you, He

that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep ; to him the porter openeth; the sheep hear his voice: he calleth them by name, and leadeth them out.

3 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him for they know his voice. A stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

4 This parable spake Jesus to them but they understood not what

speech? it is because ye do not at- things they were which he spake to tend to my words.

them.

5 Then said Jesus to them again, world, that whosoever believeth on I am the door: by me if any man me should not abide in darkness. enter in, he shall be saved, and shall But if any man hear my words, and go in and out, and find pasture. The believe not, I judge him not: for I thief cometh not, but to steal, and to came not to judge the world, but to kill, and to destroy: I am come that save the world. they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

II 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. For I have not spoken of myself; the Father who sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

6 I am the good shepherd, for the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and And I know that his commandment scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

7 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

8 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

9 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give to them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father who gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said to me, so I speak.

12 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his soul shall flow rivers of living water. This spake he of the Spirit, whom they that believe on him should receive.

13 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is a Prophet: others said, This is Messiah. But some said, Shall Messiah come out of Galilee? Hath .not the scripture said, That Messiah cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? So there was a division among the people because of him and some of them would have taken him; but no man laid hands on him.

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10 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on 14 Then came the officers to the me, but on him that sent me: and chief priests and Pharisees; and they he that seeth me seeth him that sent said to them, Why have ye not me. I am come a light into the brought him? The officers answered.

Never man spake like this man. Then she kept this. The poor always ye answered them the Pharisees, Are ye have with you; but me ye have not also deceived? Have any of the rul- always. ers or of the Pharisees believed on 5 On the next day many people him? But this people who know that were come to the feast, when not the law are cursed. Nicode- they heard that Jesus was coming to mus said to them, (he that came Jerusalem, took branches of palm to Jesus by night, being one of trees, and went forth to meet him, them,) doth our law judge any man, and cried, Hosanna, to the son of before it hear him, and know what David: Blessed is he that cometh he doeth? They answered, Art thou in the name of the Lord: Hosanna also of Galilee? Search and look: in the highest! for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. 15 And every man went to his own house.

SELECTION XXXV.

The common people love and honor Jesus, but he perceives that his enemies will soon put him to death.

passover

THEN Jesus six days before the came to Bethany, where Lazarus was whom he had raised up from the dead. There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.

2 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

3 Then said one of his disciples, (Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who afterward betrayed him.) Why was , not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

4 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath

6 And as he went, they spread their clothes in the way: and when he had come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, saying, Blessed is the king that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

7 And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said to him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. And he answered, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

8 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; saying to them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

9 And he taught daily in the temple. And the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, but could not decide what to do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

IO And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying

in the temple, and saying, Hosanna stones and what buildings are here! to the son of David; they were sore Jesus answering said to him, displeased, and said to him, Hearest Seest thou these great buildings? thou what these say? And Jesus there shall not be left one stone said to them, Yea: have ye never upon another, that shall not be read, Out of the mouth of babes and thrown down. sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

2 And when he was come near, he II From that time forth began beheld the city, and wept over it, Jesus to show to his disciples, how saying, If thou hadst known, even he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer thou, at least in this thy day, the many things of the elders and chief things which belong to thy peace! priests and scribes, and be put to but now they are hid from thine death: Then Peter took him aside, eyes. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou and began to rebuke him, saying, that killest the prophets, and stonest Be it far from thee, Master: this them who are sent to thee, how shall not be to thee. But he turned, often would I have gathered thy and said to Peter, Get thee behind children together, even as a hen me, Satan: thou art an offence to gathereth her chickens under her me: for thou considerest not the wings, and ye would not! Behold, things that are of God, but those your house is left to you desolate : that are of men. for I say to you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall exclaim, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

12 Then said Jesus to his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. And what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

13 And Jesus said to them, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

SELECTION XXXVI.

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

4 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Messiah; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom ND as he went out of the tem- against kingdom: and there shall be ple, one of his disciples said to earthquakes in divers places, and him, Master, see what manner of there shall be famines and troubles:

Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, and foretells its destruction and the calamities of the Jewish nation.

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