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KING
The Messiah-King--The Prophetic Colt--The Lord's Need--The Lord's
Heralds--Hosannas--Disciples' Thoughts--Changed Earthly
Scenes--Lamb on Earth and in Heaven--A Prophecy Recalled--Twice a
Herald 138
CHAPTER XXI
WITH THE MASTER ON OLIVET
The Lord in His Temple--His Farewell to It--Admiring Disciples--Sad

Prophecy--The Two Pair of Brothers on Olivet--A Sacred
Memory--The Poet Milman's View from Olivet--Unanswered
Question--The Coming Fall of Jerusalem--The Poet Heber's Lament
Over Jerusalem 142
CHAPTER XXII
JOHN A PROVIDER OF THE PASSOVER
The Betrayer--A Lamb and a Place--Not Judas, but Peter and John--A
Secret Sign--The Goodman of the House--A New Friendship--Upper
Room--"Furnished"--"Prepared"--Paschal Lamb--Child
Memories--John and the Baptist--Temple Worship--Obeying Silver
Trumpets--Slaying of the Lamb--Chant and Response--Lamb and
Lamps--Alone with Jesus--Jerusalem Chamber--John and the Upper
Room 148
CHAPTER XXIII
JOHN'S MEMORIES OF THE UPPER ROOM
The Open Door of the Upper Room--Door Ajar--Revelation by
John--Two Statements by Luke--Cause of Contention--John's Relation
to the Quarrel--Sittings at the Table--John and Judas Beside
Jesus--Two Things About Jesus--Grieved Spirit--Bethany Recalled--A
Great Contrast--Love and Reproof--Lesson Ended--A Sacred Relic--A
Guest an Enemy--Troubled Spirit--"Verily, Verily"--Looking and
Doubting--John's Gaze--"Is It I?"--Peter and the Great Secret--Jesus'
Hint of the Great Secret--Meaning of the Sop--Judas and
Satan--Departure of Judas--"It Was Night"--A New Name--A New
Command--Farewell Words and Prayer and Song--Closed Door to be
Opened Again 154
CHAPTER XXIV
ST. JOHN WITH JESUS IN GETHSEMANE

An Eye-witness--Departure from the Upper
Room--Kidron--Gethsemane--Olive Trees--John's Memories--Garden
Owner--Charge to the Nine--Mt. Moriah--Final Charge--A
Prophecy--Companions in Glory and Sorrow--A Sad Change--John
Beside Jesus--Sorrowful Soul--Charge to the Three--Jesus Alone--Jesus
Seen and Heard--Garden Angel--Agonizing Prayer--Sleeping
Disciples--Midnight Scene--Sleeping for Sorrow--Awakening
Call--Flesh and Spirit--Repeated Prayer--Victory--"Arise"--Path of
Prayer--Gathered Band--Lighted Way--Empty Upper Room--John's
Contrasted Memories--Betrayal Sign--Warning Cry--Unshrinking
Purpose--The Meeting--Traitor's Kiss--Marred Visage--Repeated
Question and Answer--Two Bands--One Request--Peter's
Sword--Changed Voice--A Captive and Legions of Angels--The
Fleeing Disciples 163
CHAPTER XXV
JOHN IN THE HIGH PRIEST'S PALACE
Flight of the Nine--Captive Lord--Peter and John Following--The
Palace--Disciple Within and Disciple Without--Peter Brought In--The
First Denial--John's Watch of Peter--Peter's Tears--His
Restlessness--His Sin and John's Silence--Three Turning and
Looking--John's Pity for Peter--John and Pilate--Christ a King--"What
is Truth?"--The Mocked King--"Behold the Man"--"Behold your
King"--John the Faithful Watcher and Comforter 176
CHAPTER XXVI
JOHN THE LONE DISCIPLE AT THE CROSS
Following the Cross--Jesus Bearing the Cross--Wearing the Thorny
Crown--Great Multitude Following--"Daughters of
Jerusalem"--Calvary--John's Memories--Group of Four
Enemies--Seamless Coat--Casting Lots--Jesus and the Gamblers--Three
Marys and Salome--John their Companion--A Contrast--Other
Apostles--John and Salome--A Mother's Love--Mary's

Thoughts--Sword of Anguish--Comfort in Sorrow--Lonely
Future--Loyal Son--New Relation--Mary's Return from the Cross--Why
John Her Guardian--A Poet's Words to John--In the New Home 184
CHAPTER XXVII
JOHN THE LONE DISCIPLE AT THE CROSS--CONTINUED
"I Thirst"--"It Is Finished"--The Bowed Head--The Women and
John--His Anxious Thoughts Relieved--Pierced Side--Two
Prophecies--Prayer in Song--Joseph of Arimathæa--Nicodemus--Two
Secret Friends of Jesus--Two Gardens--The Stone Closing the
Tomb--Two Mourners at the Tomb--John's Thoughts on Leaving the
Tomb 195
CHAPTER XXVIII
JOHN AT THE TOMB
John and Mary Magdalene--Mary's Mistaken Inference--Her Report to
Peter and John--Their Hastening Toward the Tomb--John Alone at the
Tomb--Silent Witnesses--Peter's Entry and Discovery--John Within the
Tomb--The Rolled Napkin--Seeing and Believing--Lingering in the
Tomb--The Return from the Tomb--Weeping Mary--Silence of
Angels--Mary and the Angels--Jesus Unknown to Mary--"Mary" and
"Rabboni"--John's Two Records of Mary--Day of Days--Evening
Benedictions--Pierced Side--Close of John's Gospel 204
CHAPTER XXIX
"WHAT SHALL THIS MAN DO?"
An Added Chapter--Old Scenes Revived--Following Peter--Stranger on
the Shore--John and Peter--John's Remembrance of the Miracle--"Fire
of Coals"--Reverent Guests--"Lovest Thou Me?"--"Feed My Lambs
and Sheep"--An Interested Listener--A Prophecy--John Following
Peter--Question and Answer--Mistake Corrected by John--Partial

Answer to Peter's Questions--A Former Hour Recalled 212
CHAPTER XXX
ST. JOHN A PILLAR-APOSTLE IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
On a Mount in Galilee--The Great Commission--Waiting for the
Promised Comforter--Words of the Baptist Recalled--A Revived Hope
and a Question--Jesus' Reply--The Ascension--Angels' Question--"The
Upper Chamber"--Luke's Lists of the Apostles--The Lord's Mother,
Brethren and Sisters--The Day of Pentecost--A Great
Miracle--Pentecostal Gifts to John--Evening Prayer--Beautiful
Gate--Lame man--A Gift Better than Alms--John Twice a
Prisoner--Prison Angel--Preaching of Philip--John Sent to
Samaria--John and the Samaritaness--His Changed Spirit--Death of
James--The Pillar Apostles 219
CHAPTER XXXI
LAST DAYS
Last Record--Meeting of Paul and John--Years of Silence--Leaving
Jerusalem--New Home in Ephesus--City and Temple--Paul and
John--Churches of Asia Minor--John in Patmos--Solitude--The Lord's
Day--Aid to Meditation--Calm and Turmoil--A Voice and a
Command--A Contrast--"As One Dead"--The Eagle--John's Three
Kinds of Writings--The Revelation--John's Gospel--His First
Epistle--The Apostle of Love--His Second Epistle--The Apostle of
Childhood--"Little Children, Love one Another"--John's Death 231
CHAPTER XXXII
A RETROSPECT
Boyhood--The Disciple--What John Saw--What He Heard--What He
Made Known--John a Reflector of Christ--Alone in History--Our

Glimpses of Him--In Everlasting Remembrance on Earth--With His
Lord in Heaven 241
CHAPTER XXXIII
LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF ST. JOHN
St. John and the Robber-Chief--St. John and the Partridge--"Little
Children, Love One Another"--Miraculous Preservation from
Death--The Empty Grave--The Heaving Grave 251

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS St. John _Domenichino._ Frontispiece
Map of the Land Where St. John Lived 19
Sea of Galilee Old Engraving 20
Site of Bethsaida From Photograph 22
Calm on Galilee From Photograph 26
Virgin, Infant Jesus and St.