Produced by Charles Franks, John Hagerson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D. ST. JOHN Chaps. XV to XXI EXPOSITIONS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D. D., Litt. D. ST. JOHN Chaps. XV to XXI CONTENTS THE TRUE VINE (John xv. 1-4) THE TRUE BRANCHES OF THE TRUE VINE (John xv. 5-8) ABIDING IN LOVE (John xv. 9-11) THE ONENESS OF THE BRANCHES (John xv. 12, 13) CHRIST'S FRIENDS (John xv. 14-17) SHEEP AMONG WOLVES (John xv. 18-20) THE WORLD'S HATRED, AS CHRIST SAW IT (John xv. 21-25) OUR ALLY (John xv. 26, 27) WHY CHRIST SPEAKS (John xvi. 1-6) THE DEPARTING CHRIST AND THE COMING SPIRIT (John xvi. 7, 8) THE CONVICTING FACTS (John xvi 9-11) THE GUIDE INTO ALL TRUTH (John xvi. 12-15) CHRIST'S 'LITTLE WHILES' (John xvi. 16-19) SORROW TURNED INTO JOY (John xvi. 20-22) 'IN THAT DAY' (John xvi. 23, 24) THE JOYS OP 'THAT DAY' (John xvi. 25-27) 'FROM' AND 'TO' (John xvi. 28) GLAD CONFESSION AND SAD WARNING (John xvi. 29-32) PEACE AND VICTORY (John xvi. 33) THE INTERCESSOR (John xvii. 1-19) 'THE LORD THEE KEEPS' (John xvii. 14-16) THE HIGH PRIEST'S PRAYER (John xvii. 20-26) THE FOLDED FLOCK (John xvii. 24) CHRIST'S SUMMARY OF HIS WORK (John xvii. 26) CHRIST AND HIS CAPTORS (John xviii. 6-9) JESUS BEFORE CAIAPHAS (John xviii. 15-27) 'ART THOU A KING?' (John xviii. 28-40) JESUS SENTENCED (John xix. 1-16) AN EYE-WITNESS'S ACCOUNT OF THE CRUCIFIXION (John xix. 17-30) THE TITLE ON THE CROSS (John xix. 19) THE IRREVOCABLE PAST (John xix. 22) CHRIST'S FINISHED AND UNFINISHED WORK (John xix. 30; Rev. xxi. 6) CHRIST OUR PASSOVER (John xix. 36) JOSEPH AND NICODEMUS (John xix. 38, 39) THE GRAVE IN A GARDEN (John xix. 41, R.V.) THE RESURRECTION MORNING (John xx. 1-18) THE RISEN LORD'S CHARGE AND GIFT (John xx. 21-23) THOMAS AND JESUS (John xx. 28) THE SILENCE OF SCRIPTURE (John xx. 30, 31) AN ELOQUENT CATALOGUE (John xxi. 2) THE BEACH AND THE SEA (John xxi. 4) 'IT IS THE LORD' (John xxi. 7) 'LOVEST THOU ME?' (John xxi. 15) YOUTH AND AGE, AND THE COMMAND FOR BOTH (John xxi. 18, 19) 'THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT' (John xxi. 21, 22) THE TRUE VINE 'I am the true vine, and My Father is the husbandman. Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit He taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit He purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in Me.'--JOHN xv. 14.