Christ in All the Scriptures by A.M. Hodgkin

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Christ in the Pentateuch
• Christ in the Historical Books
• Christ in the Poetical Books
• Christ in the Prophets
• Christ in His Life on Earth
  • The Gospels
  • Matthew — Christ the King
  • Mark — Christ the Servant
  • Luke — Christ the Son of Man, the Savior
  • John — Christ, the Son of God, the Divine Friend
• Christ in Resurrection Power
• Christ in Future Glory

parables of this Gospel bring out in the same way His compassion and His saving power. They generally begin “a certain man.” Such are the Good Samaritan, the Pharisee and the Publican, the Importunate Widow, and, above all, the three parables of the central chapter, Luke 15, the Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lost Son, in which His joy over the lost found is so marvellously represented. In the parable of the Great Supper it is Luke who records the Lord’s command to go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in. And the words “Yet there is room” has been the Gospel motto through all the ages.

Luke alone tells us that when our Lord beheld the city He wept over it; of the bloody sweat in Gethsemane; of the Lord showing mercy to the dying thief even in His agony, and gathering from the very Cross the first-fruits of His sufferings. Luke alone tells of the walk to Emmaus, he himself, very possibly, being one of the two disciples. He tells of our Lord deigning to eat the piece of broiled fish and of the honey-comb, in order to show us His perfect humanity even after His resurrection; of His leading them out as far as to Bethany, and that, as He lifted up His hands and blessed them, He was parted from them.

John—Christ, the Son of God, the Divine Friend

John wrote to reveal the Son of God as our Divine Friend. John 1 shows Him to us as “the only-begotten Son of God, which is in the bosom of the Father.” One of the closing chapters shows us “the disciple whom Jesus loved” “lying on Jesus’ breast.” He came right from the heart of God, right to the heart of man.

“I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to Myself” (Exodus 19:4). The object of this Gospel is to bear us as upon the eagle’s wings of our Divine Savior, right into the presence of the Father Himself. “Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me: for Thou lovedst Me before the foundation of the world” (John 17:24).

These words in the John 17 take us back to the introduction to this Gospel, “In the beginning was the Word.” Our thoughts are turned back to the first words of the Bible, and unite the great work of creation with the glorious revelation of the Son of God. “And the Word was God. All things