Section 13
might be transfigured from the flesh into the Spirit that He might come into them and dwell in them, as is revealed in verses 17 through 20. After His resurrection, He came to breathe Himself as the Holy Spirit into the disciples (20:19-22). Therefore, His going was just His coming.
Let me use as an illustration a story of some thing that happened in Taiwan many years ago. One day I bought a huge watermelon. When I brought it home and put it on the dining table, all my children were excited. Then we took this watermelon into the kitchen. One of the children cried out, "Don't take the watermelon away!" I told them to be quiet, for the taking away of the watermelon was that they might eat it, that the big melon might get into them. The melon had to be processed, to be cut and slashed. After a few minutes, the big melon came back to the children in slices. Every child was happy. In less than an hour the entire watermelon was gone. Where did it go? It went into the children. Eventually, all the children became watermelon children. The taking away of the watermelon was not its going away. Its taking away was a further coming of the wa termelon into the children. Jesus was like that watermelon. How could the disciples swallow Him? It was impossible. He had to be processed,