...cases assured good men of their final salvation long before their death. To Simon Peter it was said, "Whither I go thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards." To the eleven, "I go to prepare a place for you; and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come...

...have love one to another. Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou ? 36 Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me afterward. Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot 37 I follow thee now ? I will lay down my life for...

...Jews, " Whither I go ye cannot come, so now say I unto you ;" or as he explains himselt to Peter, " Whither I go thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me hereafter," ver. 33—36. He now enacted, as the means of following him, THE NEW COMMANDMENT. " A new...

...death. Jesus seems to allude to the same thing, but more distantly, when on a former occasion he said, " Thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards *." Peter having received this prophetic, but obscure intimation of what was to befal him, takes occasion...

...explained in the 36th verse. "Simon Peter said unto him, LORD, whither goest thou ? Jesus answered him, whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards." — But nothing of the kind is intimated respecting the Jews. Minister. Not in that text, I confess; but in...

...love one to another. 36 *¡ Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou ? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. 37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now ? I will lay down my life for thy sake....

...the inquiry by eluding it But though he does not gratify him, he instructs him. " Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me afterwards." In two senses. Peter was to follow him, in due time — to the throne, and to the cross : but at present...

...when he was at thjfc—^place, he said unto them ; Pray that ye enter JOHN XIII. thou ? Jesus answered Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now ; but thou shalt follow me afterward. Peter said unto him ; Lord, why cannot I follow thee now ? I will lay down my life for thy...

...could not come. He therefore replied by asking where he was going. To which Jesus answered. " VVhither I go, thou canst not follow me now : but thou shalt follow me afterward." In order to make his disciples farther humble, watchful, and kindly affectionate one towards...

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