Produced by Al Haines LOVE TO THE UTTERMOST EXPOSITIONS OF JOHN XIII--XXI. BY F. B. MEYER, B. A. Author of "The life and Light of Men: Expositions of John I.--XII.;" "Old Testament Heroes;" "The Shepherd Psalm;" etc. NEW YORK ---- CHICAGO ---- TORONTO Fleming H. Revell Company Publishers of Evangelical Literature Copyright, 1898-1899 by Fleming H. Revell Company THIS BOOK ON THE UTTERMOST LOVE OF CHRIST IS DEDICATED TO MY DEAR WIFE, WHOSE PATIENT CARE OF OUR HOME HAS ENABLED ME TO WRITE SO MUCH AND TRAVEL SO FAR IN HIS SERVICE. PREFACE The former book on the first twelve chapters of this sublime Gospel was called, _The Life and Light of Men_. The title was naturally suggested by the subject-matter of those chapters. We had little difficulty in finding a title for the present book, which covers, however cursorily, the remainder of the Gospel. It lay open before us in the opening verses of the thirteenth chapter, as translated in the margin of the Revised Version. "Having loved His own which were in the world, _He loved them to the uttermost_." It has been impossible, in the limited space at my disposal, to deal with these chapters as I would. Indeed, to do so, it would be necessary to know the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of the Love of God, which passeth knowledge. Time has been allowed to elapse, in the hope that the view would be clearer, and the expression more adequate, of the deep things to which the Lord gave expression. But it is useless to wait till one is satisfied of the adequacy of one's work, else life will have run its course before a beginning has been made. At the end of ten more years, the task would seem still more impracticable. In the closing chapters I have woven together the narratives of the four evangelists, so as to give a succinct and connected account of the last hours of our Lord's life, and especially of His death. It has been a great delight thus to tread the _Via Crucis_, which is also the _Via Lucis_--the Way of the Cross, which is the Way of Life, and Light, and Love. F. B. MEYER. CONTENTS