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
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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
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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 Arimathaea—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
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CHAPTER XXVIII
John at the tomb