ON THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN, FORMING A CONTINUOUS COMMENTARY. BY GEORGE J. BROWN, M.A.' CURATE OF BLADON, OXON. AND DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. VOL. II. OXFORD: H. HAMMANS, HIGH STREET. LONDON: RIVINGTONS, WATERLOO PLACE. 60. Summary of Christ's doctrine 61. Christ washeth the disciples' feet LECTURE XLIX. MARTHA AND HER SISTER AND LAZARUS. JOHN Xi. 1-10. Of those events in the Lord's life which our LECT. Evangelist was led to chronicle", whether as XLIX. illustrating His twofold nature, or paving the way for His divine discourses, none is more deeply touching and instructive, the events of His Passion alone excepted, than those which cluster round the opened grave of His friend Lazarus. The story is told with that grave simplicity, that artless truth, that dramatic power, if we may so speak, which we have already had occasion to notice in our Evangelist; which enables us, as in a picture or a mirror, to view the whole transaction; which almost admits us as spectators of the very scene. This narrative is peculiar to St. John. He alone of the Evangelists has recorded the raising of Lazarus'. The others have not even mentioned a See ch. xxi. 25. b A few sentences are subjoined from Dr. Wordsworth's introductory note to the record of this miracle. "The question why the Raising of Lazarus is not described by the three Evangelists who wrote before St. John, may be a perplexing one to those who do not acknowledge that all the Gospels are but one Gospel; that they are all from One Everlasting Spirit, who, when He was inspiring St. Matthew, foreknew that He would also inspire St. John; and when He wrote some things by the first three Evangelists, knew what He would write by the fourth and last. But they who believe that this was the case are not staggered here. They do not |