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Excerpt from A Commentary on the Gospel of St. John
Beholding the harvest together with the seed, and thus anti ciperes the natural course of human development. John te turned again to his employment. It was some time after, when Jesus was walking near the lake of Galilee, that he first call ed the youth, who, at a former period, had been so strongly excited, to become his constant companion. He had formed in the mean time so great an attachment for the person of the Messiah, that he was immediately obedient to his call, Matt. 4: 21. In his intercourse with the Redeemer, he then mani feated so great a gentleness of heart, such active mental de veiopment, so much and such warm attachment, that he he. Came peculiarly dear to him, which is intimated by John him self, without, however, mentioning his own name, John 13: 23. 19: 26. 20: 21: 7. It likewise appears from several statements in the gospels, that three of his disciples, and John among them, were treated by Jesus with a certain de gree of diminction, Matt. 17: l. 26: 37. Mark 5: 87. After the ascension of Christ, John took up his residence at Jeru salem, and was there obedient to the request of his Divine Master, in taking care of his mother. Tradition, therefore, infers, that he did not leave Jerusalem before the decease of the mother of Jesus, which, according to Eusebius, occurred A. D. 48. On this tradition, however, no conclusion can be based, since it is only related by Nicephorus Callisti, who lived as late as the fourteenth century, and who. Cannot always be relied on besides, it is easy to explain in origin. John cer tainly was not yet in Ephesus, his later sphere of action, at the time when Paul was there in the your 58 or 59. For, in the first place, Paul did not wish to labour in places which were already occupied by others; he therefore would not have intruded himself on the field of John -and, wcondly, in Acts 20: 17, John must have been mentioned, if he had been at that time at Ephesus. It was perhaps the death of the Apostle Paul which first occasioned John's leaving Je rusalem, that he might be active in them regions, which.
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