Christ's Care for His Disciples

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 18, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 44.

Christ's Care for His Disciples.

THE most beautiful commentary possible on John 10:11, 12, is Christ's solicitude for the safety of his little band of disciples. The power and majesty which could make the armed men, sent to arrest him, go backward and fall to the ground is not used for himself; it was never used for himself. He even undoes the effect of Peter's rash act, which might have otherwise involved him in the same danger. And the question naturally rises, Is he less solicitous now? If under all that cloud of anguish and dread his first thought is for them, can there be any difference in his feelings now that he is exalted above all principalities and powers? To this question the Scriptures answer, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to-day and forever."—Cynosure.