John 13:30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night. We always like to have nature in sympathy with our sorrows and our joys; to have our moods of mind quite in accordance with our moods of seasons. Thus, if you and I are in distress, there is a sort of melancholy pleasure to find the sky gloomy with clouds; and when the shutter which tells our loss, and hides our mourning from the world and casts a shadow upon our home, lets in through the crevice the sunbeam, and we hear the happy crowd enjoying it outside, that intrusion seems quite an injury to our feelings. We take our moods of mind from those of nature, and this is a mystery, of course, which we cannot explain; but we have pleasure in finding that her moods are in accordance with ours, that she is bright when we are bright, that she is in sackcloth when we are sad. And so it is quite a relief to our feelings, just as it must have been to the Evangelists, to find "it was night." Such a deed could not have been done before the face of God's smiling sun. (C. J. P. Eyre, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.WEB: Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out immediately. It was night. |
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