General Index.
Reading edition
Address to newly chosen Apostles, 253-261
Advent of our Lord into Galilee, 188, 189
Andrew, 157
Animosity of people of Nazareth, when first shewn, 165
Apologue, 125, 126
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 Theological doctrines, 230;
general characteristics of the, 247;
not men whom the Founder of a policy would have chosen, 249;
the chosen three, 325, 327;
the crowning lesson of, 465;
steps by which they learnt Faith in an unseen presence, 467;
taught Love, 468; taught Hope, 470
Ascension, 457;
expedient that Christ should go away, 457;
Holy Spirit swaying human action, 459
Astonishment produced by our Lord's teaching, 202
Authority manifested by Christ, 167, 203-206
Baptist (The) and his disciples, 153-155;
competition with, shunned by our Lord, 173
Baptist's (The) messengers, their arrival, 262;
their question and their answer, 268
Bartholomew, 159, see Nathanael
Bethany in Peræa (Bethabara), 119, 161, 168, 189 note
Bethany in Judæa, when did our Lord first resort thither? 370
Bethsaida Julias, 334
Brethren of our Lord, 362, 453
Christ leaves disciples independent, 5;
with them after the Resurrection, 9, 274;
influence of His Personality, 16, 17;
did He from the first see all that lay before Him? 140;
explores the tempers of different classes [pg 496] of men, 148;
His return from the wilderness, 151;
calls to him certain disciples, 151;
at Cana and Capernaum, 152;
leaves time for impressions to fix themselves, 185;
arrives at the Lake of Galilee and calls the brethren, 195-198;
His way of proceeding positive, 208;
enjoins no system of religious observance, 222;
why did He not found a church Himself? 236;
lays stress on what men are, as well as on what they do, 259;
ceases to have a stationary abode, 270;
educational effects of the change of place, 275-279;
journey to borders of Tyre and Sidon, 333;
at Cæsarea Philippi, 336-338 (see Transfiguration);
returns to Capernaum after the Transfiguration, 354;
sets out for the feast of Tabernacles, 359-362;
refusing to judge, 399;
upholds sanctity of marriage, 409;
disclaims for the Messiah the title of Son of David, 415;
does not look to visibly converting the world, 416;
the washing the disciples' feet, an acted parable, 419;
always endeavours to set men free, 460;
calls the conscience into play, 467;
His Kingdom not upon earth, 471
Christian revelation centred in a Fact, 230
Demoniac in country of Gadarenes, 285
Didrachma, paying of, 406
Disciples not in attendance at first visit to Nazareth, 180;
doubtful if present at feast, John v., 181;
early Judæan, 188
Dives and Lazarus, parable of, 62
Ecce Homo, quoted, p. 412.
Edersheim, Dr, life and times of Jesus the Messiah, quoted, 139, 140, 329, 334, 394;
on our Lord's conversing with the woman at Sychar, 409
Eloquence, its small part in the Divine economy, 250
Erskine of Linlathen, quotation, 40
Evil, existence of, 29;
functions of, in the world, 43-51
Family, description of a, restrained from knowing evil, 30-36
Feast of the Jews, John v. 1, 181
Five (The) first called, John, Andrew, Peter, Philip, Nathanael, 156
Form of Christ's Teaching, 209
Free Will, 29;
implies liberty to go wrong, 41
Galilæans receive our Lord, 179
Galilee, why suited for cradle of movement, 169
Gospel of St John, surely written by a disciple, 151, 157
[pg 497]
Gospels, advantages of narrative form, 13, 461
Herodians, 233
Inheritance, The disputed, 403
James, our Lord's brother, 452-454
James and John, the sons of thunder, 365, 368
Jerusalem, not a favourable spot for the schooling of the apostles, 190;
not desirable that the Christian community should originate there, 192
Judas Iscariot, 246
Laws of our Lord's conduct—sense in which term is used, 2, 18-20, 306
Lazarus, raising of, 429
Levi (see also Matthew), 214
Levitical Law, 207
Mammon of unrighteousness, 395-397
Matthew, 214-216;
his call a proof that Christ was no respecter of persons, 217
Messiah, what the people expected him to be, 329
Milton, “Paradise Regained,” 124
Miracle of feeding of the 5000, 304;
of Christ walking on sea, 308;
of feeding of the 4000, 305
Miracles, standing, not to be expected, 65;
use of, 75;
Laws of, 112;
as works of beneficence, 333
Miraculous draught of fishes, 198, 202
Mission (The) to the cities, 8, 288;
referred to by our Lord, 291-293;
effects of these mission journeys, 295;
directions given, 295-300
Mission of Seventy, 289, 301-302
Moses, 207
Nathanael, 159, 161
Natural Selection, 26, 314
Nazareth, preaching in synagogues at, 79;
second visit of Christ to, 287
Negative characteristics of Christ's teaching, 10
Nicodemus, 148, 169, 172
Parables, 312;
that of the talents, 317;
that of the pounds, 318;
intended not to hide truth but to show it, 323;
of the unjust steward, 388 and preface
Passover, 2nd, at time of feeding of the 5000, 303;
see Teaching
Peter, with our Lord at the Passover, a.d. 28, probably returned to Galilee, 166;
how far in attendance before call, 166;
his giving himself up on a sudden, to one impression, 244;
was he in constant attendance during the winter, a.d. 29, 30? 372 note;
his practical character, 248, 455;
denials of, 433
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Pharisees, their hostility and that of the Sadducees contrasted, 218
Philip, 158, 306
Preparatio Evangelica, 153-194
Preparation, noted in our Lord's ways, 80, 94
Prospective action of our Lord, 411
Receiving a hundred fold “with persecutions,” 381
Resurrection, grandeur in the conception of the Risen Christ, 450;
appearance of Christ to 500 brethren at once, 451;
appearance to James, 453;
literary aspect of the history of, 449;
duration of post Resurrection period, 464
Revelation, 52-73;
“should be written in the skies,” this demand considered, 59
Ruler, the young, 381
Sabbath, its value, 219;
our Lord's practice in relation to, 220
Samaria, 1st journey through, 175
Sanday, Mr, authorship and historical character of the fourth Gospel, references, 105, 328
Satan, 120, 125
Seed thoughts, 212;
see Sermon on the Mount
Sermon on the Mount, not a Code of Laws, 210, 211;
contains seed thoughts, 212
Sex ceases with life upon earth, 410
Signs and Wonders: their laws, 21;
distinguished, 75;
functions of, to attract hearers, 77;
for selection, 79;
for preparation, 80;
for setting forth the kingdom, 82;
for general teaching, 84;
they shew that God does not respect persons, 87;
they do not wholly supersede the processes of nature, 88, 89;
practical lessons furnished by them to disciples, 91;
Laws of, recapitulated, 112
Signs, sparingly displayed after the Feast of Tabernacles, 425;
absence of public and notable signs during the Passion week, 430
Silas, 139
Simon the Zealot, 245
Spiritual order, how far analogous to natural selection, 314, 315
Storm on sea of Galilee, 283
Successors inheriting a cause, 414, 443
Suffer me first to bury my father, 377
Synoptists, term explained, 157 note
Tabernacles, Feast of, 181
Teaching in parables, 12, 280-282, 321
Teaching of Christ, its form, 209;
that for the multitudes and that for the disciples, 225
Temptation, to turn stones into loaves, 127-135;
on the Mount, [pg 499] 134-139;
on the pinnacle of Temple, 139-141
Temptations in the wilderness, form of the narrative, 113-117;
where communicated to disciples, 119;
whether literal history, 119
Transfiguration, 93, 341-348
Trench, Archbishop, on demoniacs, 284;
on the miracles, 396
Tribute to Cæsar, 406
Twelve, the, their call, 239;
their fitness for the work which fell to them, 239;
their character as witnesses, 241-243
Universality of Christ's Kingdom, 10, 415
Wisdom justified of all her children, 264-269
Withering of fig-tree, 95, 432
Witnessing to Christ the first function of the Apostles, 216, 241
Woman taken in adultery, 405