Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. THE HEALING OF THE NOBLEMAN’S SON. John iv. andS-5and.
Between the two miracles wrought by our Lord at Cnna of Galilee, some important events in his life occurred. Foremost among these was his visit to Jerusalem, to attend the first Passover of his public ministry. It was on that occasion that he purged the temple courts of
those that sold oxen, and sheep, and doves, and also of
the changers of money. Then, too, he had his memorable conversation with Nicodemus, who came to him by night, inquiring into the nature of that teaching which, as he believed, had been so clearly endorsed as divine by the miracles which he wrought. From Jerusalem he passed into the rural portion of Judea, whence, on his route to Galilee, he went through Samaria, and there, at Jacob’s Well, met the woman of Sychar, to whom he revealed himself as the Messiah. At the urgent entreaty of the men of the city to which she belonged, he remained among them for two days, preaching the gospel of the kingdom with marvellous success, and after that he came again to Cana. At Jerusalem he did some remarkable miracles, which are not particularly recorded, but which must’ have produced most impressive results. This is evident, first, from the reference made to them by Nicodemus, when he said,
Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher sent from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him; and, second, from the statement made in the narrative now before us,t to the effect that
the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast. It thus appears that, so far from seeking to make a sensation, by heaping miracle upon miracle in their narratives of the life of Christ, the Evangelists have given only a few of the more important of …
