…He loved them unto the end. – John 13:1

The Master displayed His love to His disciples throughout His life by the way in which He sought to comfort them when He foresaw that they would be cast down; especially was this true at the period before His passion-when one would have thought He might have sought for comfort, He was busy distributing it. Those choice words which have flown like a dove into many a mourner’s window bearing the olive branch of peace, were the fond utterances of a thoughtful heart. “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions.” Many such bottles of oil and wine did He apply to the wounds of His disciples. He would not have them suffer any kind of spiritual turmoil. “In the world ye shall have tribulation” said He, “but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” His peace He distributed right liberally and left it as His last legacy: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth give I unto you.” In the private life of every one of those chosen men, there must have been incidents of matchless tenderness; but they are not recorded, because if all were written which Jesus did, even the world itself would not contain the things, which should have been written. Enough is written to let us see that no tenderness of mothers, or care of friends, could match the ever, generous forethought of the Friend of man. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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