W T Turpin · The Fruits of Christ's Resurrection.

But that ended the solitariness of Jesus; He is alone no more. And that is why I referred you to that beautiful chapter, John 12, where He gives utterance to it in very touching words. Everything was ready for the glory of the kingdom, as it were. Israel for the moment received Him, the Gentiles come up and want to see Him, just what will come out at the coming day. The Spirit of God gives you a beautiful picture of the coming glory in all this: Israel and the Gentiles, and Christ the Centre. Whether it was but for the time being a feeble acceptation by His own people, as it was historically, or whether it was the curiosity of the Greeks that came up to worship at the feast that wanted to see this wonderful One, the kingdom in its glories and all its constituent parts passed before the eyes of the blessed Lord there. Mark the words: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone." Now that is just what we have been looking at, He was alone — He remained alone, alone in His perfection, alone in His blessedness, alone in all the preciousness of what He was in His own Person to God in all His life; but now, mark, "if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit."