Meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles--Why the brethren of our Lord wished Him to go to Jerusalem--The Jewish World--Christ teaching in the Temple--Doing God's Will and knowing His Doctrine--The Sabbath-day and Circumcision--In what Sense Christ's Life was mysterious, in what Sense open--'_Ye shall seek me, and not find me_'--The Gift of the Holy Ghost 209 DISCOURSE XVI. ST. JOHN VIII. 29.--_And He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please Him._ Bethlehem and Nazareth--The division in the Sanhedrim--The Story of the Woman taken in Adultery--Jesus declaring Himself the Light of the World--The Two Witnesses--The Descent and the Ascent--The Answer to the Question, '_Who art Thou?_'--The Son of Man lifted up--How St. John preaches the Trinity 226 DISCOURSE XVII. ST. JOHN VIII. 43.--_Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word._ The repelling and attracting Power of Christ's Words concerning His Father--The Promise of Truth--The Promise of Freedom--The Servant in the House and the Son--Abraham's Seed--The Desire to murder the Prince of Life--The claim of God as a Father--The charge of being children of the Devil--The Speech and the Word--The Temporal and the Eternal--'_Before Abraham was, I am_' 240 DISCOURSE XVIII. ST. JOHN IX. 39.--_And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind._ How the story of the Blind Man is connected with the previous discourse--Final causes of bodily disease--The obligation upon Jesus to work--Process of the cure--The debates in the Synagogue--The Doctors and the Beggar--His arguments and their answer--What his blindness had done for him--The Revelation of the Son of God 259 DISCOURSE XIX. ST. JOHN X. 27-29.--_My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my and. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand._ The Mount of Olives--The sight of the Sheepfold--The Wicket-Gate-- Why the Pharisees could not understand the symbol--St. John's Parables--The robbers and murderers who claimed to be Christs in the Old Time--Application to Modern Times--How is it true that the Sheep did not hear them--The Good Shepherd and the Hirelings--Communion between the Shepherd and the Sheep--Communion between Christ and His Father--The other Sheep--Why Jesus did not say, 'I am the Christ'--'_My Father is greater than all_'--'_I and my Father are one_'--'_I have said, Ye are gods_' 274 DISCOURSE XX.