one Master, and always teach one and the same doctrine.

CHAPTER XIV.

What does the 14th chapter contain?

Where is it written? What is the subject of it? What had Christ done for his disciples, while he was with them in the world?

Who were those whom he had kept?

What had happened to none of them?

What is meant by the son

of perdition?

A. One worthy of perdition or destruction.

Who was the son of perdition?

A. Judas Iscariot. To whom was Christ coming?

Why did he speak these things?

What had he given them? Did the world love them, or hate them?

Why did it hate them? What did Christ not pray concerning them? What did he pray ? What more did he pray God to do towards them?

What is meant by

tifying?"

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A. Making holy. What is God's word? Who sent Christ into the world?

Whom did Christ send into the world?

VIOUR'S PRAYER FOR THEM. -John xvii. That they may be kept holy.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the Scripture might be fulfilled. And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them

through thy truth; thy Word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even

A. His apostles. What did Christ do for their sakes?

For what purpose did he sanctify himself?

CHAPTER XV.

Whom does our Saviour pray for in this chapter? What is the object in his prayer?

What did not Christ do for the apostles alone?

Who were the apostles? A.Twelve disciples chosen by Christ to be his constant companions, and commissioned or sent by him to preach the Gospel.

Whom did he pray for besides ?

How were they to believe on him?

What did he pray that they might be?

In whom were they to be one, or to whom were they to be united?

A. Christ.

What would the world believe in consequence of this?

What had Christ given to them?

For what purpose? What was the world to know?

How has God loved those who believe in Christ?

What does Christ desire for those whom the Father had given him? For what purpose?

so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

CHAPTER XV.

OUR SAVIOUR PRAYETH FOR ALL THOSE WHO SHALL BELIEVE IN HIM.-John xvii. That they may be one in Christ, and eternally happy with him.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me, through their word; that they may also be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one; I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;

and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me

Where shall they behold his glory?

A. In heaven.

From what time did the Father love Christ?

Before what time then did Christ exist?

?

How does that appear A. Because God loved him before the foundation of the world.

Where do you find another proof of this?

A. In St. John's Gospel: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Who is meant by "the Word?"

A. The Son of God. Who had not the world known?

How has the world not known the Father?

A. It has not acknowledged him as it ought. Who had not known him? What have his disciples known?

What did Christ declare to his disciples?

What do you mean by "disciple?"

A. Scholar, learner. For what purpose did Christ declare God's name to them?

CHAPTER XVI.

What discourse does the 16th chapter contain?

where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the word. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent

me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and I will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

CHAPTER XVI.

OUR SAVIOUR's LAST DIS

COURSE, AND HIS ASCEN

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For what purpose Christ open the understanding of his disciples ?

What was Christ to suffer?
A. Death.

What was to happen after his death?

What was to be preached in his name?

What is meant by "remission of sins?"

A. Forgiveness of sins. Where were they to be preached?

Where were the apostles to begin preaching?

Why first at Jerusalem ? A. Because the terms of salvation were to be first offered to the Jews, and Jerusalem was their chief city, where the temple stood.

Of what were the apostles witnesses?

What were these things? A. Christ's death and resurrection.

What do you mean by Christ's resurrection?

On his Death and Resurrection.

These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the Prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scripture. And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day; and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

A. His rising from the

dead.

What did Christ say he would send upon them? What was the promise? A. The gift of the Holy Ghost, the Comforter. Where were the disciples to tarry or stay? How long?

What did he mean by saying, "until ye be endued with power from on high?" A. Until the gift of the Holy Ghost was bestowed upon

them from heaven. To what place did Christ lead the apostles?

What did he do there? What happened while he blessed them?

Whither was he carried? What did the apostles do? To what place did they return?

In what state of mind did they return?

And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy; and were continually in the

their joy?

A. That their Master was

received into heaven.

Where were they conti

nually?

What were they doing in the temple?

What was the temple? A. The great Church at Jerusalem.

What did "their worshipping him" prove?

A. That they were convinced that he was God.

ing God.

Amen.