A Father's Cry--Reason for Hope--Sad Message--Strength of Faith--"Fear Not"--Curious Crowd--The Twelve and the Three--Jealousy--Ambition--A Coming Change--John One of Three--"Tahtha Cumi"--A Lesson for John--A Future Scene--Influence of a Secret 97 CHAPTER XVI JOHN A BEHOLDER OF CHRIST'S GLORY Family Prayer--Sayings of Men Concerning Jesus--Saying of Peter--A Great Need--Christ's Prophecy of His Death--Apart by Themselves--Not Tabor, but Hermon--Thoughts of the Nine and of the Three--Heavy with Sleep--Answers to Two Prayers of Jesus--Transfigured--Moses and Elijah--Moses' Shining Face--The Lord's Shining Figure--The Shechinah--A Strange Proposal--Voice from the Clouds--Touch and Word of Jesus--Descent from Hermon--A Great Secret--Peter's Memory of the Transfiguration--John's Record--Greater than John the Baptist or Moses--Moses and the Shechinah--Ungranted Request, but Answered Prayer--Hermon, a Mount of Prayer 101 CHAPTER XVII ST. JOHN'S IMPERFECTIONS Four Reasons for Recording Failings--Jealousy and Pride--Intolerant Spirit--Two Questions, What? and Who?--First and Last--An Object Lesson--The Child-Spirit--Startled Disciples--John's Confession--Lesson Not Learned--Hospitality--Samaritan Hatred--Hospitality Refused--Indignant Brothers--A Story of Elijah--Fiery Spirit of James and John--Rebuked by Jesus--Ambitious Brothers--Mother's Request--Sons' Request--Sorrowing Lord's Reply and Thoughts--Two Thrones--Though Imperfect, a Grand Character 111 CHAPTER XVIII JOHN AND THE FAMILY OF BETHANY John's View of a Family Group--His Relation to It--A Sad Message and the Reply--The Lord's Delay and Concealed Purpose--A Possible Thought of John's--John and Thomas--"Our Friend"--"Sleepeth"--John an Eye-witness--Mary and Jesus--"Jesus Wept"--Mourning Disciple--Glorified Father and Son--Jesus with Martha at the Tomb--Repeated Command, "Arise"--The Release from the Tomb--John a Companion in Joy--John's Memory of Mary--Lazarus' Tomb and Jesus' Cross--A Tradition of Lazarus 120 CHAPTER XIX JOHN'S MEMORIAL OF MARY A Scene in Bethany--An Unfinished Picture--John with Manuscripts of Matthew and Mark--A Great Event not Understood--A Joyful Meeting--A Supper in Honor--A Fitting Place--Omitted Names--An Unnamed Woman Named--Mary's Cruse--Interested Witnesses--An Unusual Anointing--An Unwoven Towel--Odor of the Ointment--Judas the Grumbler--Jesus' Defence of Mary--A Prophecy--John the Preserver of Mary's Name--Prophecy Fulfilled--Judas and Mary--Judas and the Chief Priests--A Group of Three--A Sublime Action--A Group of Four 128 CHAPTER XX JOHN A HERALD OF THE KING