to believe in God in this situation? True, it is always good to be urged to believe in God, but in this situation the problem is that Jesus was about to be taken from the disciples and that they were troubled by thoughts of this parting. They did not really doubt that God would take care of them in some far off, general sense. But they did not understand how Jesus could go, how he could apparently be abandoning them. So what does Christ say? In these circumstances it is as though he turns to the