Homiletic Monthly John 13:1-19 Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world to the Father… "God's providences," says the godly Flavel, "like the Hebrew letters, are often to be read backward." 1. Sense doubts, while faith trusts. 2. The one questions while the other obeys. 3. The one must reason out all mysteries, all God's ways, while the other can take them on trust. "Though no affliction for the present seemeth joyous, but grievous, nevertheless, afterwards," etc. (Homiletic Monthly.) Parallel Verses KJV: Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. |
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