A Life of St. John for the Young eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 220 pages of information about A Life of St. John for the Young.

A Life of St. John for the Young eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 220 pages of information about A Life of St. John for the Young.

  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 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 195

CHAPTER XXVIII

  John at the tomb

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