for themselves. 'He shall testify of Me' to you.

Now it is to be noted, also, that the first and special application
of these words is to the little group listening to Him. Never were
men more desolate and beaten down than these were, in the prospect of
Christ's departure. Never were men more utterly bewildered and
dispirited than these were, in the days between His crucifixion and
His resurrection. Think of them during His earthly life, their narrow
understandings, their manifold faults, moral as well as intellectual.
How little perception they had of anything that He said to them, as
their own foolish questions abundantly show! How little they had
drunk in His spirit, as their selfish and ambitious janglings amongst
themselves abundantly show! They were but Jews like their brethren,
believing, indeed, that Jesus Christ was the Messiah, but not knowing
what it was that they believed, or of what kind the Messiah was in
whom they were thus partially trusting. But they loved Him and were
led by Him, and so they were brought into a larger place by the
Spirit whom Christ sent.

What was it that made these dwarfs into giants in six weeks? What was
it that turned their narrowness into breadth; that made them start up
all at once as heroes, and that so swiftly matured them, as the
fruits and flowers are ripened under tropical sunshine? The
resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ had a great deal to do
with the change; but they were not its whole cause. There is no
explanation of the extraordinary transformation of these men as we
see them in the pages of the Gospels, and as we find them on the
pages of the Acts of the Apostles, except this--the resurrection and
the ascension of Jesus Christ as facts, and the Spirit on Pentecost
as an indwelling Interpreter of the facts. He came, and the weak