. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. best suited for making the unleavenedbread used at the Passover. Men and loomen bearing pitchers pass along this street, thewomen in greater numbers than the men. for the fetching of ivater is generally their ivould therefore beeasy to observe the fewmen who returned fromthe well, sloivly climb-ing up the hill, laden asthey are with their heavyloads. Many have at readypassed, but not yet theone designated by theMaster. When he comes,it is John, the beloved andtrusted friend of
. The life of our Saviour Jesus Christ : three hundred and sixty-five compositions from the four Gospels. best suited for making the unleavenedbread used at the Passover. Men and loomen bearing pitchers pass along this street, thewomen in greater numbers than the men. for the fetching of ivater is generally their ivould therefore beeasy to observe the fewmen who returned fromthe well, sloivly climb-ing up the hill, laden asthey are with their heavyloads. Many have at readypassed, but not yet theone designated by theMaster. When he comes,it is John, the beloved andtrusted friend of Jesus,who recognises him im-mediately, and the disci-plesatouce preparetofol-low h im. They have scar cely a hundred steps to go,for they are already farup the street and quite close to the ancient Sion. >-^ ^ « /?- ^ •which looks down upon the mount ai n on ivhicli /erusalem is built. The precise and homelydetails here given to us by the Evangelist, ivith those supplied throughout the whole historyof the successive scenes of the Passion, enable us to obtain a wonder/ ully vivid and truthjul. il Cunscl. THK iMAN BEARING A PITCHER 79 idea of all the facts connected voith this deeply interesting period. We feel that eye-witnesses are speaking, or at least that eye-witnesses inspired the writer even in his most niinnte shades of expression. Saint fohn saic everything, the other Apostles were in the eery best possible position for obtaining tnisticorthy testimony; so that in reading the divine record, the zvhole tragic story is lived through again, as it zvere before our very eyes, the tzco thousand years which have passed roll azvay as though they had never been, and ice receive just such a vivid impression as we should in reading a contemporary journal. We have at ready, in our Introduction,givenour reasons for indicating the very hourswhen the events we have to describe took pi a realise this idea we have adopted zvhatseems to us the natural plan of giving theaccompa
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