the Lord in the death room at the raising of Jairus’s daughter, on the mountain as witnesses of the Lord’s splendor, and in the garden accompanying the Lord in His dire agony. From the day that these disciples met the Lord, “their hopes for Israel and for themselves were set in Him. But it had not occurred to them that their lives were to be part and parcel of His earthly program.”32 But that is what Jesus seeks of these men as disciples. To accomplish this, the Lord will bring them even closer to
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