DISCOURSE XXVII. ST. JOHN XIX. 37.--_And again another scripture saith, They shall look on Him whom they have pierced._ Arrangement of our services in Passion Week--Agreement of St. John with the other Evangelists--Why all dwell upon the arraignment of Jesus--Peculiarities of St. John--The night-scene with the officers--Jesus before the High Priest--The dread of defilement--Jesus before Pilate--'_Art thou a king?_'--'_Behold the man!_'--'_Whence art thou?_'--'_We have no king but Cæsar_'--The title on the cross-- Rending the garment--The Son and the Mother--'_A bone shall not be broken_'--'_They shall look on Him whom they have pierced_'-- Nicodemus at the sepulchre 424 DISCOURSE XXVIII. ST. JOHN XX. 30, 31.--_And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book: but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through His name._ Reasons why St. John should record the history of the Resurrection carefully--How far he or the other Evangelists cared to produce evidences--Peter and John at the sepulchre--How John could find in the Scripture that Jesus should rise again--Appearance of the angels--Differences of the Evangelists--Jesus speaking to Mary--'_I am not yet ascended_'--'_Peace be unto you_'--The commission to bind and loose--Thomas the Doubter--The conclusion of the narrative--The resumption of it--The Apostles returning to their nets--Jesus on the shore--The fish and the bread--'_Simon, lovest thou me?_'--The two Apostles--John tarrying till Christ came--The things which Jesus did, and is doing, and will do 443 NOTES. NOTE I.--On Barn's theory of the Gospels 469 NOTE II.--On the construing of the 3d, 4th, and 9th verses of the 1st chapter 475 NOTE III.--On Origen's notion of St. John's Gospel in connexion with the knowledge attributed to John the Baptist 477 NOTE IV.--On the relation of the words, '_The Lamb of God_,' to the Passover, and to the passage in the 53d chapter of Isaiah 479 NOTE V.--On the objections to a revision of the Scriptures 481 NOTE VI.--Extract from Gregory of Nyssa 484 NOTE VII.--On the resurrection of the body and the judgment-day 484 NOTE VIII.--Comparison of the teaching in the Sermon on the Mount with that in the 8th chapter of St. John 488 NOTE IX.--On the doctrine of Atonement--Scotch and English divinity 492 NOTE X.--On corporate holiness 498 NOTE XI.--A translation of John viii. 2 501 DISCOURSE I. THE JEWISH FISHERMAN, THE CHRISTIAN DIVINE. [Lincoln's Inn, Septuagesima Sunday, January 20, 1856.]