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Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e fishes taken so overloaded both thevessels that they began to sink. All were astonished; and Simon Peter,who was one of the party, with his partners, James and John, the sons ofZebedee, fell down on his knees, and cried out, Depart from me, for I ama sinful man, O Lord;—meaning that he was not worthy of the highhonor of having Jesus on board his vessel, and of continuing in his presence.Jesus encouraged the timid man, and told him that he would employ himin a far nobler work, and that henceforth he should catch men. And so itcame to pass when—if we compare ^the gospel to a net—he caught threethousand souls at once by his preaching, as we shall read in the Acts of theApostles. Matthew and Mark have given no more of what happened atthis time than merely that Christ sat down in the ship and taught; soLuke has supplied what they omitted. In the sixth chapter of Luke we find a beautiful discourse of our Lords, something like that which we call the Beatitudes, in the beginning of 46
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MIRACULOUS DRAUGHT OF FISHES. 722 Luke. 723 Matthew. That, however, was delivered on a mount, and this on a plain;and on examining them and comparing them together, we find them differingvery much, though parts of the former discourse were repeated in this, itbeing another assembly. In the seventh chapter, the Evangelist informs us of Christs raising tolife the son of the widow of Nain. He was just at the moment enteringinto that city, and a number of his disciples and followers were with him;and on approaching the gate he met a funeral procession. The dead personwas a young man, the only son of a widow. The custom was not to enclosethe body in a coffin, as with us, but to carry it on an open bier, borne onthe shoulders, just merely covering the corpse with a cloth. The poor widowfollowed in great sorrow, weeping intensely, over her great and overwhelm-ing loss; and who could help her ? She seems to have been much respectedand so was her son, by the large concourse that attended the f

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