Section 15
cases. The hunger of the multitude in chapter 6 reveals that their human enjoyment had come to an end, but the Lord came to them as the bread of life. The sinful woman in chapter 8 also was one whose wine of enjoyment had run out. The blind man in chapter 9 also had no enjoyment of the human life. This is especially true with the case of Lazarus in chapter 11. The main points of the case of Lazarus, in principle, are the same as those of the first case, the marriage feast at Cana. In the first case there was the enjoyment of the mar riage feast. In the case of Lazarus there was the pleasure of the family love between Lazarus and his two sisters. In the wedding feast the wine ran out; in the case of Lazarus the human life ran out. Lazarus died, indicating that the wine of human life had run out. In both cases the principle of life was exactly the same: the Lord came into both situations and changed death into life. Therefore, the principle of life set forth in the incident of changing water into wine can be applied to every case throughout the Gospel of John.
In the Scriptures, figuratively speaking, the tree of life is the source of life, and the tree of knowl edge is the source of death, as revealed in Genesis 2:9 and 17. In all the cases recorded in the Gos pel of John, the significance always corresponds,