John 5:1-18 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.… A poor fellow in Exeter Hall signed the temperance pledge some twenty or thirty years ago. He was a prize-fighter — a miserable, debauched, degraded, ignorant creature. A gentleman stood by his side, a builder in London, employing some hundreds of men, and he said to him — what did he say? "Stick to it?" No! "I hope you will stick to it, my friend?" No! "It will be a good thing for you if you stick to it?" No! He said this — "Where do you sleep to-night?" "Where I slept last night." "And where is that?" "In the streets." "No you won't; you have signed this pledge, and you belong to this society, and you are going home with me." (J. B. Gough.) Parallel Verses KJV: After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.WEB: After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. |
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