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Lord Jesus; not in the popular line of men’s thinking, but

outside of all that—“Where I am, there also shall be my

servant”. May it become attractive to every one of us. The

inside position is privilege; we go inside to contemplate; and

along with that goes the public position of being outside the

camp.

One of the two in chapter 1 was Andrew, and he becomes

immediately in movement. I think I am right in presuming that

the other one was John. I believe John was a contemplator.

He tells us in chapter 1—“we have contemplated his glory, a

glory as of an only-begotten with a father” (John 1: 14). I

suppose he saw something of that when they saw where the

Lord abode, and abode with Him that day; I suppose he got an

initial impression of the glory of “an only-begotten with a

father”. He tells us in his epistle, “that which we contemplated”;

he speaks about, “the eternal life, which was with the Father”,

1 John 1: 1, 2. John was a contemplator. We need both; we

need movement, as with Andrew; Andrew was right in being

active; but along with that we need the ability, and to take time,

to contemplate. That is how John appears. At the beginning of

chapter 13 it says, “Jesus, knowing that his hour had come

that he should depart out of this world to the Father “(John 13:

1). How did John know that? Again in verse 3, “Jesus, knowing

that the Father had given him all things into his hands”. How

did John know what was in the Lord’s mind at that moment? It

was because he was near to Him; because he was a

contemplator. I believe—I can take it to myself—we do not

spend enough time contemplating, letting things sink in. That

is how John is in chapter 1

and he does not appear

again till chapter 13. Andrew appears in chapter 1, chapter 6

and chapter 12; but not John until chapter 13. He presents

himself in chapter 13 as the disciple whom Jesus loved; he is

in His bosom, “where I am, there also shall be my servant”.