![]() ![]() Study to be quiet and to do our own business' is the best remedy for all excitement, whether it be of sorrow or of hope. That is not like people who would be liable to the excesses of excitement that would lead to the hallucination,' which is the modern explanation of the resurrection faith, on the part of the disciples.Īnd it is a precious lesson for us, dear brethren! that whatever may be our memories, and whatever may be our hopes, the very wisest thing we can do is to stick to the common drudgery, and even to go back to abandoned tasks. They go back to the nets and the boats long since forsaken at the Master's bidding. Very noble and beautiful is the calm patience with which they fill the time of expectation with doing common and long-abandoned tasks. ![]() They had all gone from Jerusalem to Galilee, in obedience to His command, and were now waiting for His promised appearance. Let us go back to our nets and our boats!' No! all these men had seen the risen Lord, and had received from His breath the gift of the Holy Spirit. ![]() Now we must not read that as if it meant: It is all over! Our hopes are vain! We dreamed that we were going to be princes in the Messiah's Kingdom, we have woke up to find that we are only fishermen. If so, we have at the end, the original little group gathered together again with the addition of the doubting Thomas.īe that as it may, there they are on the shore of the sea, and Peter characteristically takes the lead and suggests a course that they all accept: I go a fishing.' We also go with thee.' And a very natural inference is that the two others' unnamed here are the two others of that chapter, viz. Four out of the five persons named in our text appear there: Simon Peter, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, James and John. The little group of whom we read in this narrative reminds us of the other group of the first disciples in the first chapter of this Gospel. First we have here a revelation of the permanent relation of Jesus Christ to His Church and to the individuals who compose it, in this, that the risen Lord on the shore shares in the toil of His servants on the restless sea. ![]()
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