Let us bring in Peter, who was with Him on the mount of transfiguration, who was with Him the night He was betrayed.  Come, Peter, tell us what you think of Christ.  Stand in this witness-box and testify of Him.  You denied Him once.  You said, with a curse, you did not know Him.  Was it true, Peter?  Don’t you know Him?  “Know Him!” I can imagine Peter saying:  “It was a lie I told then.  I did know Him.”  Afterward I can hear him charging home their guilt upon these Jerusalem sinners.  He calls Him “both Lord and Christ.”  Such was the testimony on the day of Pentecost.  “God had made that same Jesus both Lord and Christ.”  And tradition tells us that when they came to execute Peter he felt he was not worthy to die in the way his Master died, and he requested to be crucified with the head downward.  So much did Peter think of Him!

Now let us hear from the beloved disciple John.  He knew more about Christ than any other man.  He had laid his head on his Savior’s bosom.  He had heard the throbbing of that loving heart.  Look into his Gospel if you wish to know what he thought of Him.

Matthew writes of Him as the royal king come from His throne.  Mark writes of Him as the servant, and Luke of the Son of Man.  John takes up his pen, and, with one stroke, forever settles the question of Unitarianism.  He goes right back before the time of Adam.  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  Look into Revelation.  He calls him “the bright and the morning star.”  So John thought well of Him—­because he knew Him well.

We might bring in Thomas, the doubting disciple.  You doubted Him, Thomas?  You would not believe He had risen, and you put your fingers into the wound in His side.  What do you think of Him?

“My Lord and my God!” says Thomas.

Then go over to Decapolis and you will find Christ has been there casting out devils.  Let us call the men of that country and ask what they think of Him.  “He hath done all things well,” they say.

But we have other witnesses to bring in.  Take the persecuting Saul, once one of the worst of his enemies.  Breathing out threatenings he meets Him.  “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?” says Christ.  He might have added, “What have I done to you?  Have I injured you in any way?  Did I not come to bless you?  Why do you treat Me thus, Saul?” And then Saul asks, “Who art thou, Lord?”

“I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.”  You see, He was not ashamed of His name, altho He had been in heaven; “I am Jesus of Nazareth.”  What a change did that one interview make to Saul!  A few years afterward we hear him say, “I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dross that I may win Christ.”  Such a testimony to the Savior!