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"Peace I leave with
you; My peace I give unto you. Not as the
world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be
afraid. You have
heard that I said to you: 'I go away, and I come unto you:
"If you loved Me, you
would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater
than I.8 And now I have told you before it comes to pass, that when it shall
come to pass, you may
believe.
"I will not now speak
many things with you, for the prince of this world cometh, and in Me he hath
not anything. But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the
Father hath given Me
commandment, so do I. Arise, let us go hence." And when they had said a hymn,
they went out.
Matthew 26:30; Mark
14:26;
Luke 22:35-38; John 14:1-31
Jesus' Interior Prayer and Lamentation
O God, Thou art He that
hast drawn Me out of the womb, My hope from the breasts of My mother. I was
cast upon Thee from the womb. From My mother's womb Thou art My God. Depart not
from Me, for
tribulation is very near, and there is none to help Me.
Psalm 21:10-12
8
For the Father is greater than I: It is evident that Christ our Lord speaks here
of Himself as He
is made Man: for as God He is equal to the Father. (See Phil. 2.) Any difficulty
of understanding
the meaning of these words will vanish when the relative circumstances of the
text here are
considered, for Christ being at this time shortly to suffer death, signified to
His Apostles His
human nature by these very words, for as God He could not die. And therefore as
He was both God and
Man, it must follow that according to His humanity He was to die, which the
Apostles were soon to
see and believe, as He expresses (ver. 29), "And now I have told you before it
come to pass, that
when it shall come to pass, you
may believe."