What do you mean by But that the world may that? A. He would not find any fault in him; he was without sin. What was the world to know? How was it that Christ acted? CHAPTER XII. What is the subject of this chapter? Where is it written? What does Christ say is his commandment? In what manner were they to love one another? What does Christ say is an instance of very great love? How does Christ tell his disciples that they would be his friends? What does he not call them from that time? Why? What does he call them? What had he made known to them? What had they not done with respect to him? What had he done to them? What did he ordain them to do? What will he give them? What is the thing which he commands them? know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence. CHAPTER XII. THE SAME DISCOURSE CON TINUED.-John xv. We must love one another. This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard ́ of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain ; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that ye love one ano ther. CHAPTER XIII. What is contained in the thirteenth chapter? Where is it written? What is the subject of this prayer? What did Jesus do when he had spoken these words? How did he begin his prayer? What hour did he mean? "A. The hour in which he was to suffer death. What does he pray the Father to do? For what purpose was the Father to glorify the Son? Over what had the Father given him power? For what purpose had the Father given him power over all flesh ? What is life eternal, that is, what is the way to life eternal? What had Jesus Christ. done on earth? What had he finished? How does he pray the Father to glorify him? Where does Christ say he was going when he left the world? What does he pray the Father to do for those whom he had given him? For what end did he pray the Father to keep them? What do you mean by being one as we are? A. That they may always be united as the disciples of XIII. CHAPTER Mand OUR SAVIOUR'S PRAYER FOR HIS DISCIPLES.John xvii. That they may know the only true God and Jesus Christ. These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to Heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come: glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee; as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, I glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name, those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are. 3 CHAPTER XIV. What does the 14th chap- CONTINUATION ter 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 coming? was Christ 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 is meant by " tifying?" sanc A. Making holy. Whom did Christ send into the world? OF OUR SAVIOUR'S PRAYER FOR 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? so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that For what purpose did he they also might be sanctisanctify 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? 4. 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? fied 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 also may 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 where I am; that they may 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. În 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. What 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? behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee; but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent ine. And I have declared unto them thy name, and What do you mean by will declare it: that the love "disciple?" A. Scholar, learner. For what purpose did Christ declare God's name to them? CHAPTER XVI. What discourse does the 16th chapter contain? wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. CHAPTER XVI. OUR SAVIOUR'S LAST DIS COURSE, AND HIS ASCEN |