eat for me. It
also reminds us that as the food we eat is distributed, without our own
will or supervision, to every part of the body, giving light to the eye
and strength to the arm, making bone or skin in one place, nerve or
blood-vessel in another, so, if only we make Christ our own, the life
that is in Him suffices for all the requirements of human nature and
human duty.

[25] On verses 37, 44, and 45 see note at the end of this volume.

XV

_THE CRISIS IN GALILEE._

"Many therefore of His disciples, when they heard this, said, This
is a hard saying; who can hear it? But Jesus knowing in Himself that
His disciples murmured at this, said unto them, Doth this cause you
to stumble? What then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending
where He was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken unto you are spirit,
and are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus
knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it
was that should betray Him. And He said, For this cause have I said
unto you, that no man can come unto Me, except it be given unto him
of the Father. Upon this many of His disciples went back, and walked
no more with Him. Jesus said therefore unto the twelve, Would ye
also go away? Simon Peter answered Him, Lord, to whom shall we go?
thou hast the words of eternal life. And we have believed and know
that Thou art the Holy One of God. Jesus answered them, Did not I
choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil? Now He spake of
Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he it was that should betray
Him, being one of the twelve."--JOHN vi. 60-71.

The situation in which our Lord found Himself at this stage of His
career is full of pathos. He began His ministry in Judaea, and His
success there seemed to be all that could be desired. But it soon became
apparent that the crowds who followed Him misunderstood or wilfully
ignored His purpose. They resorted to Him chiefly, if not solely, for
material advantages and political ends. He was in danger of being
accounted the most skilful metropolitan physician; or in the greater
danger of being courted by politicians as a likely popular leader, who
might be used as a revolutionary flag or party cry. He, therefore, left
Jerusalem at an early period in His ministry and betook Himself to
Galilee; and now