Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end. – John 13:1

Our Savior’s faithfulness towards the chosen band whom He had elected into His fellowship was most remarkable. He had selected persons who must have been but poor companions for one of so gigantic a mind and so large a heart. He must have been greatly shocked at their worldliness. They groveled in the dust when He mounted to the stars. He was thinking of the baptism wherewith He was to be baptized, and He was straitened until it was accomplished, but they were disputing which among them should be the greatest. He was ready to deny Himself that He might do His Father’s will, and meanwhile they were asking to sit on His right hand and on His left hand in His kingdom.

Worse than the fact of their natural worldliness perhaps, was the apparent impossibility of lifting them out of that low condition; for though never a man spake as He spake, how little did they understand! And though He took them aside and said to them, “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God,” yet after many plain teachings He was compelled to say to one of the best of them, “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip?” They were dull scholars. There is no teacher here who could have had patience with such heavy intellects, but our Lord and Master’s love remained evermore at flood-tide, notwithstanding their incorrigible stupidity. His love was stronger than their unbelief and ignorance. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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