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Jesus. But John has more prominent
! ~ in mind spiritual sense, and less
the life that the Lord lived and the
| works which He did. Always he
sought to impress mainly some spirit
ual lesson. 1t seems that even the
previous lesson about the miracle of
the feeding of the thousands was pre-
/ scented for the sake of impressing the
deeper spiritual lesson of today.
Certainly we are to consider that
the most important part OF todays les
son is the discourse which Jesus spoke
to those who had started to follow
! Him.
EXPLANATORY.
Time: A. d. 81.
Place: Capernaum.
The day after the miraculous feed
ing of the five thousand the people
who had remained over night there,
and who had noticed that the evening
before the disciples had sailed away
without Jesus, and in the only boat
that was at that land Though other
boats had in the meantime landed near
the same place., seemed puzzled be-
cause they knew that the disciples had
gone without Jesus, but that He also
had disappeared.
| Whom the people therefore saw that
Jesus was not there,-No doubt they
looked for Him early in the morning;
but He could nowhere be found-neith-
or his dscipies-Who, the people
knew, had sailed away the evening
before without their Master-They also
took shippins,-Still in search for the
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make king. OF course it must not be
thought that the entire company Of
the day before so did. The probable
| ity is that nearly all of them had de-
parted at the close of the previous day,
when they saw the disciples start
away; but some Of them remained in
the community, interested in Jesus
particularly, and probably ambitious
for their nation, in hopes that He
might yet become their King,-and
came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
This was perhaps not over ten miles
distant, and 1t would not take long
either to sail or row across the north
west corner of the sea. They were in
tent upon finding the Master.
j And when they had found him on
the other side of the sea,-It is prob
able that there was no difficulty in
finding Him, for the people generally
were at this time taken up with Him,
and He was never out of their sight,
except when He purposely withdrew,
in order to escape them-they said I'M
to him, Rabbi, when CONTEST thou
hither7 They were puzzled over His
disappearance from the place where
He was the day before and where they
knew Of no other boat to take Him
thence. The question of when includ =
ed the one of how.
+ Jesus answered them-But not their
question. He did not tell them, so far
as the record states, how or when He
came over from the other side of the
sea. The Lord does often refuse to
satisfy our curiosity, though He does
answer us, and declare just what
should be said to us and said, Verify,
verify, ! say unto you,-Very solemn
observation which the occasion as con-
sidered from their side Of the matter
does not seem to call for; but Jesus
was dealing with that which was not
at all on the surface in their presence
of question, but was in where the
righteous God searcheth the heart and
trieth the reins. Mans relation to
Christ is always a very serious mat
ter and we are all open and naked
before the eyes of Him with whom we
have to do-Ye seek me, not because
ye saw the miracles,-Yet that was the
reason which prompted them the day
before, as we are expressly told in the
second verse OF this chapter. The null
titude hurried around by foot to the
place where He was going because
they saw his miracles which he did
on them that were diseased" But now
they appear to be prompted by a diff
ferent motive-but because ye did eat
Of the loaves, and were filled.
Then said they unto him, What shall
we do, that we might work the works
of God? The verb translated work is
the same in the Greek as in the previ-
GUS verse.
Jesus answered and said unto them,
This is the work of God, that we be-
Iieve on him whom he hath sent. In
stead of the work of God being COM
posed of a number of works--doing
this and that and the other-it is one;
faith in Jesus who was sent into the
world that We might have life in His
name. Certainly faith will be accom-
panied by good works-always is so
accompanied, for without works faith
would be dead. being alone. But faith
is the sole condition of salvation unto
eternal life; and every good work that
is acceptable to God must be wrought
in the name Of His Son Jesus, and is
acceptable to God only as it Is thus
presented unto God.
They said therefore unto him, What
sign showest thou then,-Again at it,
demanding signs. as if sufficient works
had not already testified of Him--that
we may see and believe thee7 what
does thou work? 1t is strange that
they should require additional evidence
for the ground of their faith. What
Jesus had done was sufficient for
minds like that of Nicodemus-open