Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord

“And as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heave...

When contemplating the Passion and the Resurrection of Christ, we have little attention to spare for the subordinate personages in the scene. The effects of these manifestations...

In treating of the calling of the Apostles, we encounter the questions, “What led our Lord to surround Himself with a constituted body of this kind?” and, “In virtue of what qua...

The point we have now reached in the history is marked by a signal change as well in the form of our Lord’s teaching as in the outer tenour of His life. His discourses are no lo...

It was, as I believe, soon after that “feast of the Jews” lately mentioned (pp. 180 and 181 note), that the news of the apprehension of the Baptist by Herod reached our Lord at...

We now come in sight of that part of our Lord’s work which is the special subject of this book. We have been shewn something of what passed in His mind during the days in the de...

We have, on our way to this point, while tracing the course of Christ’s Schooling of the Apostles every now and then caught sight of the working of the principle, “to whomsoever...

I use the word “Signs” instead of miracles because it is our Lord’s own word. The latter expression fastens attention on the wonderment which these deeds raised in men. But our...

I have already, in the introductory Chapter, given my view of the principles which guided our Lord in the exercise of His superhuman powers. He is tempted to employ them when He...

Of the general purport of this book, and of what led to the writing, I have said all that is necessary in the Introductory Chapter. The ideas it contains were growing into disti...

I have spoken in the foregoing chapter of certain characteristics of our Lord’s ways of dealing with men. In considering these ways we find ourselves, at almost every turn, face...

If I took the word Revelation in its widest sense I should not attempt to treat of it here, for it would comprise nothing less than God’s education of the human race. We talk of...

Apostles (The), named in pairs by Matthew, reason suggested, 162; must have been directed to return to Jerusalem for the Ascension, 194, 451; not fit men to promulgate Theologic...

The spot at which our Lord had left the disciples when He went up to the Mount of the Transfiguration must have been well peopled and provided with synagogues, for our Lord on H...

that He would protect Himself by His superhuman power; for that, possessing miraculous powers as they knew He did, He should hesitate, on an emergency, to exert them in self-def...

It has been already observed that there is one feature of our Lord’s way of revealing truths to men which distinguishes Him from all teachers before or since. This is the use of...

some in one of these utterances and some in another, what answered to a want or a question rising in their hearts; and, as a fact, men have in every age lighted on words of our...