CHAPTER XXII/. 555 3. When Jesus healed the man of the palsy at Nazareth his own city, he forgave his sins, and then curedhis distemper, as a proof of his power to forgive sin ; Mat. ix. 1 -8. 4. When the woman came to be cured of her bleeding with a strongbelief of his power and mercy, she only touched the hem of his garment, and Jesus pronounced that " her faith had made her whole ;" Mat. ix. 20-2e. 5. He went through a corn-field with his disciples on the Sabbath, and defended them in their plucking of ears of corn, and rubbing, and eating, from the accusation of the Pharisees, who pretended thiswas a breach of the sabbath; Mat. xii. 1 -8. 6. When the Jews demanded a sign of him, he refused to give them any but the sign of the prophet Jonah, that as Jonah was three days and nights in the whale's belly, so the Son of man should be three days and nights in the grave ; Mat. xii. 38-40. 7. When he was told that his mother and his brethren stood without, and wanted to speak with him, he took occasion to say, that " whosoever should do the will of his Father, were indeed his nearest relations, his brother, his sister, and his mother ;" Mat. xiii. 46-50. 8. Though he wrought many miracles in his life, yet he wrought but few of them in his own country, because they de- spised him as the son of a carpenter, and would not believe on him; Mat. xiii. 54-58. 9. When Jesus walked upon the water towards his disci- ples in a storm, he called Peter out of the ship to walk upon the water too, and reproved him for his fearfulness and unbelief when he began to sink ; Mat. xiv. 21-32. 10. 11e commendedPeter for his confession of him as the Soh of the living God, and promised to build his church upon this rock, this confessionof Peter : but presently after he told his disciples of his sufferings and death, and he reproved Peter severely for wishing that Christ might not suffer and die ; Mat. xvii. 16-23. 11. When tribute money was required of him at Caper- naum, he sent Peter to catch a fish, and told him he should find money in the mouth of it, which he did, and paid it to those that gathered the tax ; Mat. xvii. 24-27. 12. When little children were brought to him that he should touch them, his disciples rebuked those that brought them : but Jesus took them in his arms and blessed them, and said, " Of such is the kingdom of God;" - Mark x. 13 -16. 13. When a rich young man enquired of him what he should do to obtain eternal life, he tried him by saying, " Keep the commandments, or do this and live ; for the man that doth them shall live by them :" as Rom. x. 5. But when the young wan was so confident of his own righteousness, and so little seu- Nn2
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