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them, "What are ye seeking?" and they said unto him, "Rabbi," (which signifieth, being interpreted, Teacher,) "where abidest thou?" He saith unto them, "Come and see." They came and saw where he abode, and they abode with him that day: (it was about the tenth hour.) Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John, and followed him. He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, "We have found the Messiah," (which is, being interpreted, the Christ, i. e. the Anointed.) And he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him, said, "Thou art Simon the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas:" (which is, interpreted, Peter, i. e. Rock.)

The next day he purposed to go forth into Galilee; and he findeth Philip, and saith unto him, "Follow me." Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto him, "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus the son of Joseph, who is from Nazareth." And Nathanael said unto him, "Can any thing good come out of Nazareth?" Philip saith unto him, "Come and see." Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith concerning him, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me ?" Jesus answered and said unto him, "Before Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee." Nathanael answered and saith unto him, "Rabbi! thou art the Son of God! thou art the King of Israel!" Jesus answered and said unto him, "Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig tree,' believest thou? thou wilt see greater things than these." And he saith unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Henceforth ye will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

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SECT. VI.

The Marriage at Cana: Our Lord's First Miracle.

JOHN ii. 1-12.

AND on the third day1 there was a marriage-feast in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there: and both Jesus was invited, and his disciples, to the marriagefeast. And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, "They have no wine." Jesus saith unto her, "Woman,1 what hast thou to do with me? is not mine hour come?" His mother saith unto the servants, "Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it." Now there were lying there six stone vessels for water, (according to the purification of the Jews,) containing two or three firkins apiece. Jesus saith unto them, "Fill the vessels with water." And they filled them up to the brim. And he saith unto them, "Draw some out now, and bear unto the president of the feast.' And they bare it." Now when the president tasted the water that had been made wine, and knew not whence it was, (but the servants who drew out the water knew ;) the president calleth the bridegroom, and saith unto him, "Every man first setteth forth the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the worse: thou hast kept the good wine until now."

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This beginning of his miracles Jesus made at Cana of Galilee, and thus manifested his glory; and his disciples believed on him.

After this, he went down to Capernaum, himself, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they abode there not many days.1

1 v. H. n. 2 The Greek word here expresses the custom of washing before and after eating.

PART II.

FROM THE FIRST PASSOVER, INCLUSIVELY, TO THE APPROACH OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.

SECT. I.

At the First Passover, Jesus authoritatively expels the Traders from the Temple-Court, and predicts his Death to the Rulers.1

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JOHN ii. 13-22.

AND the passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting and making a scourge of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen; and poured out the money of the exchangers, and overthrew their tables; and said unto those who sold doves, "Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise." But his disciples remembered that it is written, 'Zeal for thy house consumeth me.'s

The Jews, therefore, answered and said unto him, "What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?" Jesus answered and said unto them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." The Jews therefore said, "Forty and six years was this temple in building, and thou wilt raise it up in three days!" But he spake 2. H. n. 3 Ps. lxix. 9.

[Compare Part VIII. Sect. IV.]

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concerning the temple of his body. When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had spoken.

SECT. II.

During the Passover many believe in him: Conference with Nicodemus: Observations of the Evangelist.

JOHN ii. 23-iii. 21.

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles 1 which he did. But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, because he knew all men, and needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: the same came to him by night, and said unto him, "Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: 2 for no one can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." Jesus answered and said unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Nicodemus saith unto him, "How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Unless a man be born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Wonder not that I said unto thee, 'Ye must be born again.'

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1 v. H. n. 2 Lit., that thou hast come as a teacher from God. 3 The original has the same word, for wind and spirit.

where it willeth, and thou hearest the sound of it, but thou canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the spirit." Nicodemus answered and said unto him, "How can these things be?" Jesus answered and said unto him, "Thou art a teacher of Israel, and knowest thou not these things! Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things? And no one hath ascended up to heaven, but he who came down from heaven, the Son of man," who is in heaven. "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."1

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that every one who believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world that he might condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath of the only-begotten Son of God.

not believed in the name Now this is the condeminto the world, and yet

nation, that the light hath come men have loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his deeds may not be reproved. But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

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