Hi all,
Is there anyone who could scan The Watchtower, April 1, 1965, page 211 for me? It would be greatly appreciated! I tried finding it on the internet but was not successful.
Thanks in advance!
Scan Request.
by s-c-3-1-3 4 Replies latest watchtower bible
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Azazel
Gday there do you need the actual page or just from WT Library ( no pictures) ?
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diamondiiz
From wt-cd
14 Asceticism? Not at all. He accepted many invitations to meals and even banquets, as well as at least one wedding, and he doubtless enjoyed himself. He appreciated good things done for him. When he was having a meal with his friend Lazarus, Lazarus’ sister Mary used about $50 worth of costly oil to anoint his feet. Judas expressed indignation and professed loving concern for the poor who could have benefited by the sale of the oil. But Jesus told him: “Let her alone, that she may keep this observance in view of the day of my burial. For you have the poor always with you, but me you will not have always.” (John 12:1-8) But whether his unselfish love expressed in his ministry incited others to respond with love or not, Jesus’ own love continued undiminished.
15 Do we wonder, then, that on his final night with his disciples he laid such stress on love, genuine principled love? Over thirty times he spoke of love and loving, and three times he repeated the command that they “love one another.” (John 13:34; 15:12, 17) How could they possibly prove themselves his disciples if they lacked such love? Was his command that they ‘love their neighbor as themselves’? They should and did, but this was not the new commandment. They were to love one another, to have love among themselves as Christian disciples, and a love like what Jesus had shown for them as beloved disciples, men who loved his Father, who loved the truth, and who loved him. He told them: “No one has love [agápe] greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends. You are my friends if you do what I am commanding you.” (John 15:13, 14) The next morning they knew what he meant.
16 One of them may have seen it, if only from a distance, whereas we can only imagine it: his hands being held, one upon the other, until the spike punctured and tore through the flesh to imbed itself in the wood. The red of his blood beginning to stain his hands when another spike was driven through his feet. Then the stake being swung upright until his whole weight hung on these two points. Six hours later he was dead and thus was spared from having his legs brutally broken. If his disciples did not all see it, they soon heard about it from those who had. (John 19:25-27) Would they be ashamed of him? Would they want to deny that they had followed this man, believed his teachings, believed that he was God’s chosen one to rule in His kingdom? Peter at least should have remembered what Jesus told them after rebuking Peter for his sentimental objections to predictions of these very things. “If anyone wants to come after me,” Jesus said, “let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake and follow me continually. For whoever wants to save his soul will lose it; but whoever loses his soul for the sake of me and the good news will save it. . . . For whoever becomes ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man will also be ashamed of him when he arrives in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”—Mark 8:34-38.
17 By his death Jesus accomplished his primary purpose in coming to earth: to vindicate his Father’s beloved name. (John 17:6; 18:37) He also provided a ransom for all of mankind who would accept it and to whom he would be able to say: “You are my friends [because] you do what I am commanding you.” (John 15:14) He gained the right to serve as king of a new capital government with its throne in the heavens and serve on behalf of his followers as God’s high priest, “not one who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tested in all respects like ourselves, but without sin.”—Heb. 4:15. -
s-c-3-1-3
Hi, thank you! Could you possibly send the link where you found it? :)
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diamondiiz
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