1-xxi.   25).      This  includes  (a)  his  last  dis
courses  with  his  disciples  (xiii.-xvii.)  ;  (ft)  his
arrest,  trial,  and  crucifixion,  in   which   he
bore  witness,  particularly  before  Pilate,   to
his  person  and  work   (xviii.,  xix.)  ;    (c)  his
resurrection  and    certain    testimonies    con
nected  with  it  (xx.,  xxi.).     The  result  is  to
show  that  in  the  human  Jesus  there  was  the
eternal   Son    of    God,    who    by   his    person,
teaching,  and  redeeming  work  has  revealed


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God  and  secured  eternal  life  to  those  who
receive  hirn.  St.  John  thus  represents  the
mission  of  Jesus  as  the  climax  of  God's  self-
revelation  and  as  the  procurement  for  be
lievers  of  that  light  which  consists  in  knowl
edge  of  the  highest  truth  and  of  that  life
which  consists  in  spiritual  union  with  God,
which  together  constitute  the  perfect  good
and  the  everlasting  salvation.  "  These
[things]"  he  says,  "are  written,  that  ye  might
believe  that  Jesus  is  the  Christ,  the  Son  of
God  ;  and  that  believing  ye  might  have  life
through  his  name"  (xx.  31).
G.  T.  P.
Joi'a-da  [Jehovah  hath  known].
1.  A  son  of  Paseah,  who  repaired  a  gate  of
Jerusalem  (Neh.  iii.  6 ;  in  A.  V.  Jehoiada).
2.  A  high  priest,  great-grandson  of  Jeshua
(Neh.  xii.  10).
Joi'a-kim  [Jehovah  doth  establish].
A  high  priest,  son  of  Jeshua  (Neh.  xii.  10,
12,  21-26),  in  the  reign  of  [Arta]xerxes  (An-
tiq.  xi.  5,  1).
Joi'a-rib  or  Jehoiarib,  the  two  forms  freely
interchanging  in  Hebrew  [Jehovah  defends].
1.  A    descendant   of   Aaron.     His    family
formed  the  first  of  the  twenty-four  courses
into  which  David  divided  the  priests  (1  Chron.
xxiv.  7),  and  it  dwelt  at  Jerusalem  (ix.  10)  ;
see  JEHOIARIB.
