The Last Day of the Feast of the Tabernacles — Frank Knox

Jesus Standing at the Feast of Tabernacles

I want to read three portions of scripture with you, and I want you to notice Jesus standing. That will help you. Jesus standing, and the first portion I read with you will be in John chapter 7. John chapter 7, please, and verse 37.

In the last day the great deer of fish were feasted. Feasted, how about it? Well, yes they are. That's true. In the last day the great deer of fish, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, that it is in which shall flow rivers of living water, but this day he is finished. Holy Spirit. Which he that believeth on him shall receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, brethren, let that end it.

The Holy Spirit was not yet given, and there's no use of quibbling about. Because the Jesus was not yet glorified. Nor was the Holy Spirit given until the Lord was glorified. Now you notice Jesus standing there with you, please.

Jesus Standing to Sympathize in John 11

And we'll pass on now to John chapter 11. John chapter 11, please. And we'll read now that verse 30. Now Jesus was not yet come into the throne, brethren, but was in that place where Martha met him. The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted Mary.

When they saw Mary, thus she roomed up hastily, and went out and followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there. Then said Mary, Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died, but he neither.

And Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he groaned in his spirit, and was troubled for even his humanity, and said, Where have you made him? And he said unto him, Lord, come and see Jesus well.

Then said the Jews, Behold, has he loved him? And some of them said, Could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind, in chapter 9, have crossed? Even this man should not have died, certainly could.

Jesus therefore again, groaning in himself, come up to the grave, and into the cave, and a stone laid upon him. Jesus had taken away the stone, but the sister of him that was dead said unto him, Lord, by this time his body hath decayed, for he hath been dead for a day.

Jesus said unto her, Said I not unto thee that thou thoughtest the link, thou shouldst see the glory of God? Or another translation is, Did I not promise you? Then he took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted up his heart and said, Father, I thank thee thou hast heard me, and I knew that thou heededst me always, but because of the people which stand by, I said that they must believe that thou hast sent me.

And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lover of comfort, and he that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus sat unto him, and loosed him, and let him go, Jesus, and let go.

Stephen Sees Jesus Standing at God's Right Hand

Now another one will read in Acts chapter 7, the 7th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, verse 54, Acts 7, 54. When they heard that, that is the wood in a proceeding house, it was Stephen speaking right up then, when they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed them with a key.

But he, Stephen, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up steadfastly unto heaven, and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens open, and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God.

And he cried out with a loud voice, and struck the wheels, and ran upon them with one accord, and cast them out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down the truth, at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul, who afterwards became the Apostle Paul.

And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, that is, Stephen was calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. And he knelt down and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this thing to the charge.

And when he had said this, he fell asleep, or better, the Lord put him to sleep, Jesus standing again, shall we pray. Our Father in heaven, we bring to thee the holy scriptures that we've read, and we bring to thee the dear people that's going to listen to us, and we bring to thee ourselves.

And we want thee, our God, to prove to us once again, as thou hast done so often, that thou art the God that can control our tongues and our thoughts, and that thou wilt help us to say what we ought to say, and say it in the right spirit as well, with the right object in view, that thy people may be helped and encouraged and blessed, and that thy holy sons may be glorified.

Now, Lord, this is thy work. No one can do it, only thee. And we want thee to let our infamy, and our ignorance, and our charmality, only be an opportunity for thee to display thy grace and thy power in this world.

Christ's Postures and Perfect Timing

What's this about our Lord Jesus Christ during these thirty-three and a half years on earth is a very simple and a very profitable study for all believers, both young and old. The remarkable thing about it is we very seldom hear a preacher or any of the Lord's people speaking about these postures.

Sometimes you get him lying. Sometimes you get him walking. Sometimes you get him sitting. Sometimes you get him standing, but you never get the Christ running, for the very simple reason he never was late.

He always was in good time. The men in you and I, of course, of Romans 5, 6, in due time Christ died for you and God. Some people want to know when's the Lord coming back in due time. He'll just be here on the very split second that he has arranged, and it's not your business and mine when he comes, but it's your business and mine to live what Christ may have written for us.

Now I've only read three scriptures with Jesus standing, I might have read quite a lot more, but I'm saying that there's no use of covering quite a whole lot of ground, and may be good to your people, not getting much out of anything.

So I've constrained myself to three little passages, and I promise you, as I've done in all the meetings, to keep simple and on the surface, so that the youngest believer may get ahead. You might not need the help that I'm going to set you before your afternoon, but you're not in heaven yet.

And you don't know how long it is before you get there. And you don't know what lies in front of you, and it's where you don't need to go out. Therefore, please don't be annoyed, because all I'm saying just doesn't suit you.

You're not there yet. And may be more than likely it will suit you before you get home to heaven. I did have to mark on a scripture, John 7, 47, Jesus standing. And notice he's standing in John 7, 47, to save the earth.

There's none here tonight, how do you know? And then, in John 11, he's standing to sympathize with a servant. Everybody can do that. And again, in Acts 7, 47, at the end of the chapter, we get him standing for to suffer the suffering.

Everybody can do that. A lot of God's dear people will never be able to sympathize with a sorry, for they never would in sorrow themselves. And a lot of them will never be able to suffer the suffering, for they've never been suffering themselves.

Now then, if I spend a few minutes each of these three, you'll find our time will be gone. And I won't go on to help that. But then there was a little verse in my mind, and it slipped out, and I'm going to quote it to you now, John 6, 33, In the world ye shall, it's an emphatic shall, just as emphatic as the then shall be, and the living shall be king.

And it's an emphatic shall for saved people, and for saved people only, John 6, 33, In the world ye shall have trouble, or tribulation, if you like, it's the same one. Now, we come to John 7, and try and get down to business.

The Feast of Tabernacles and Israel's Restoration

And here we have the last word of peace, a feast, a feast of tabernacles. You know, if you're familiar with Leviticus 23, and I don't suppose you are, very people go to Leviticus, and I don't know why it's called Leviticus, because the name's only mentioned once.

And the word, our English word, Leviticus, comes from a Hebrew word, which means, God has spoken. But then you see I'm away from the subject again. Nevertheless, in John 7, 37, you've got the Lord Jesus Christ, on the last great day of the feast, a feast of tabernacles, mind you, which points forward to the restoration, and the reinstatement, and the gathering of God's earthly people, Israel, home to their own land.

They're not yet in home yet. The whole thing's only a flea bag. It's not time for them to gather home yet. Oh yes, the people tell you that Israel is a nation, but you hold on a little bit. By the way, it's not time for Israel to get back to the promised land yet.

And we all can, and as much as we can, nobody will bring the Jews back to Palestine, only the Lord Jesus Christ himself. And he's not there. But the feast of tabernacles points forward to the restoration of the nation of Israel, and you can't possibly read Daniel, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Zechariah, and he's written what I'm saying now.

And the man who tells me that he can't see the restoration of Israel, well I don't want to be blunt, but I'd be very doubtful if you want to see it. Because if you want to see it, you can't fail to see it.

And we'll leave that there. Now look, if you please, on the last great day of the feast, I've had a dose of eight days of religion. What religion ever satisfies anybody? You can't produce me a mother in Belfast with all this religion.

Does what's suffered brought satisfaction to anybody? Absolutely not. And for right, because religion is only an exterior thing. It never brings satisfaction to the heart, and it's well that they don't, because there's about a hundred of them in Ireland, and there's probably five or six hundred in the wide world over, but you can't produce me one that brought real satisfaction to the heart of a sinner in view of death and eternity.

Oh no, it takes Christ to do that. Now after the last day of the feast of Tabernacles, my brethren, go back to Leviticus 23, and you'll find it's the last feast. Jesus to the unfaithful. Now what's exciting about it?

We see the people going away by the hundreds of thousands from Dan to Bathsheba north and south, and they're just as dissatisfied as ever. My brethren, but then is it a feast of Tabernacles? Yes. It's one of the feasts of Jehovah?

Yes. It's one of the feasts of God appointed to Israel? Yes. And does it not satisfy them? Certainly not. And my friends, it's the feast of Jehovah, and all the feasts of the Old Testament didn't satisfy Israel, and there were God-given forces, feasts, then you'd be perfectly satisfied that the man-made religions of our day didn't satisfy anybody.

No. Now none but Christ did satisfy. None other name for thee. There's love and life and lasting joy, and Lord Jesus crowned in thee. Now when the holy heart of Israel saw these little people as sheep without a shepherd, going to travel home by foot probably, for hundreds of miles, he had compassion on them as he always has, and he said he stood on his pride.

That means his pride in us. And he said, if any man stops, let him come after me and bless me. Now we don't need of any people coming. That doesn't mean that they didn't come. I don't know. And I don't work with speculation.

I believe that for somebody I've studied, and it's a foolish thing in the things of God. But he stood on his pride with any man. Now notice this. If any man had told to the servant of the Jews, if any man stopped, and he that did stop, for to him the thing is, it would have failed on me.

There's a field of thought. If any man stops, if any man feels as need of a drink, let him come unto me and drink. And the water that I shall give him shall be in him a water of, a level of living water, for taste shall be of the Holy Spirit which was not yet given.

My dear brethren, why don't you let the power of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, just let the anger, that's not the Holy Spirit, it's the power of the Holy Spirit. And the power of the Holy Spirit will be manifested in the future, after the Lord has come.

But the Holy Spirit won't be here, because he'll go with the church, as a matter of fact, he presents the church to the Christ a bread without having put a wrinkle on any such thing, Ephesians 5. Now the good news is, he's coming to take us home, that's John 14 .3.

But that's not in your Bible, and it's not in mine. Which is often you tell us, queer thing, and that's quite right, but you think they're queer, because you listened to what preachers said, and you just went away and you swallowed it, and you thought it was right.

Don't you swallow what preachers say, not even brethren, and if they're not right, well God help the best of them. But listen, it says here, simply and plain, I'm coming to receive you unto myself, which is quite a different matter.

I didn't take that baby, but a newly married pair gave it to me, and I received it. Now then, the Lord Jesus is going to receive his church from the hand of the blessed Spirit of God, now I'm in 2 Thessalonians 2, and when the church goes, the Holy Spirit will go with them.

But somebody tells me that they may get saved after that, truly by the power of the Spirit of God. But the Spirit himself is up in heaven with the church, marked out well, just as the Spirit of God was not here in the Old Testament, but he's followed here.

So John 7 .37 ends that and settles that, the Spirit was not yet given. Never try to be clever in the Bible reading, because you're very likely to find somebody there that will come to you, and say that you're only trying to teach what you don't know.

Just be humble and keep low, and go through, and you may learn something. And if you want to get down in the things of God, keep well to the back. And if you want to get up, keep well down. And all the power in the earth can't keep a proud man up if he comes down.

And all the power in the world can't keep a humble man down if he comes up, just because he's a humble man. You have to try at it. Say to somebody, have you ever tried it? I try it at every day of this.

For there's nothing so hateful to God as pride. And there's nothing so abominable to men and women as pride. And there's no pride so abnormal as Christian pride. For the devil has fooled the man up when he thinks he knows something.

When the poor man's flesh and blood doesn't know very much. Now I put this Jesus standing to save sinners. I wonder if there's one in the meeting tonight, this afternoon, that's saved. Oh, you say this is a believers' meeting, yes.

But I've seen sinners getting saved in a believers' meeting. I've seen some people getting saved in a morning meeting. I know a woman got saved in a business meeting in Adam Street. What do you think about that now?

A woman getting saved in a business meeting, yes. You can't limit the living God, and it's well because. For if some of us, or some of the Lord's people could limit the Lord, he'd have a very small sin.

Jesus Standing to Save Sinners

But my friend, in a business meeting, the savings of the meeting was over. And the preacher went away. And the woman was very unsafe. And she wouldn't go to bed and she would die. And she said, I'll go into any place of worship where you see a light.

Well, it was where she went. It was a place where they knew what they were talking about. So far as God's salvation is concerned, she went into a building. There was an outpost, there was a tent. Well, who was he, you say?

You never get the Lord's pastor over a congregation in a bedroom. The pastor's full number every time. Now then, his sober tenant, well, overseers there, and she went in. And of course they said, this is not a mission, a good woman.

Said, see, I don't care what kind of a mission it is, I want to be saved. And she wouldn't go out. For mind you, when a woman makes up her mind to do a thing, the best thing is get out of the room. So one dear man went down and sat beside her and led her to Christ and it was in the magazines in America shortly after how a woman got saved in a Babel reading.

There's only one, in a business meeting, there's only one place where God can have saved people and this one place is hell. I hope you'll not get there. Now Jesus stood and cried, well, come, they've seen all the pains in the Babel, come, you can count them some day.

Now, come, come, come. Jesus just wants sinners to come to him and I told you one, he stands for children, O stands for old people, M stands for middle-aged people and he stands for everybody and the Lord says, let them come.

And he encourages you to come because in John 6 .37 he says, If not come unto me, I will in no way cast out. You may be perfectly sure then on his word that he'll take you in if you come. That's all for you sinners.

I'm good on to the Lord's dear people now. But mind you, if he tells you to come and you don't come, you'll be bound to hear the word pass. One of the two things, therefore, with no time frame, if you're not saved, hurry and come to Christ, even the misbelievers meeting, he said, If not come unto me, I will not cast out.

Lazarus, the Resurrection, and Christ's Humanity

Now we come to John 11. You all know the story. Lazarus is dead. And they told, the weapon told the Lord, Lazarus lived in Bethany. The word Lazarus in the New Testament John 11, Luke 16 always means God is my comforter.

And it's the same word of Eliezer in the Old Testament, only it's two different languages. The one, of course, is the Hebrew language. He calls him Eliezer. And the other, of course, is the Greek language in the New Testament.

And I know I never read the language, but I'm an honest enough to tell you that. They may call him Lazarus, but in his case it's comforter of God or God my comforter. Now Lazarus means God's my comforter.

He's dead. Why did he die? The Lord allowed him to die. And the weapon told Jesus, but Jesus stood there to death. Why? Well, in the first place, I never ask the Lord questions like that because I'm perfectly sure that what he does and when he does it is perfectly and absolutely right and couldn't be otherwise.

But why did he stay? Well, we reason it out. Why did he stay to death? So when after the Lord was dead, then he came back and he came to the. Now, before I forget, I want you to notice that Jesus did not come right to Bethany where Mary and Martha lived.

That wouldn't do at all. Mary and Martha did not right go to where Lazarus was. Where did they come? Mary and Martha came to the and Jesus came to the and Jesus and Mary and Martha looked at the place where the dead was raised.

Why do you think that's just what's going to happen some of these days? You and I are the kings. Glory to God. And the dead will be raised and it will be just at the place where Christ is and then after that in John chapter 12 what we've got to suffer what's coming after the resurrection the rapture some people call it.

But I want to tell you after the rapture comes the rupture you never heard a person put it like that before but that's just what it is. The suffering, John says, is only a figure only a figure it's only a suggestion of mine a suggestion after the resurrection of the face of God the dead raised and the living changed and then they went home for the supper.

Now then, come back again please to the day. And Jesus came to the supper house and he said where have you laid them? Now he knew where he laid them but he said where have you laid them? Jesus could have blown away the stone but he didn't do it.

But he did what he couldn't do what could he not do that couldn't give Jesus another life. He could have blown away a stone but he didn't do it. He could have loosed them and let them go but he didn't do it.

Why? It shows God loves us Christ loves us fellowship with his people and his people ought to have love to have fellowship with him to do the little things that we can't do. I speak reverently he allows you and me to do them and he can do the things that we can't do.

Now Jesus came to this now supposing he had come right away my brethren before Jesus before Lazarus he would have died well he would have kept them from dying but then he would have never seen his resurrection you never know he would have seen his beautiful soul so he waited until he was dead then he came to prove to all and there was multitudes there that he could raise the dead and he did do that and he cried Lazarus come forth if he hadn't mentioned Lazarus let me all the dead people in the country would have raised but he said Lazarus you come forth now we're up again a little difficulty.

Oh yes but the way to get over Bible difficulties is just keep on reading it read it again and again and again and again and when you've done that read it again and again and again and some people want to know how did he come forth when he was bound hand and foot.

Did you think of course you did. Well you see he wasn't there and you didn't know how the Jews mummified the dead body and you don't know how the body. And you just thought as I thought many a time that they just wound a linen thing round them and round them hands and feet and all.

Well you're wrong and so was I wrong whenever I thought that. But they wound his hands separately and they wound his legs separately so that when the Lord said come forth he had his hands and his legs to come forth with he wouldn't all bound together.

So you see the Bible's alright and Lazarus is alright and the Lord's alright. And the reason you and I don't understand Old Testament scriptures is because we don't know Old Testament customs and we don't know the Jewish customs as well.

Christ the Man of Sorrows and the Divine Son

Now then I want you to know this here the blessed saviour of men the man of sorrows Isaiah 63. And I think I drew your attention one night to the man of sorrows Abba Beth on the cross he bare our teeth 1 Peter 2 24.

And on the tomb he bares our sorrows Hebrews 7 25. And in the coming day he bare the glory Zechariah 6. He bare the glory. When good the godless devil dominates. He says Russia is blessed for eternity.

After the night they say have a great Christmas and it's blessed for eternity. Then the Christ will bare the glory the eternal glory that nobody can take off on the throne in the universe. That's the Christ that was nailed to the crown of his cross.

That's the Goliath chapter 6. That's the feet that claim that was nailed to the cross the same flame the steps to the throne not a little bit of a figment of a throne like we have now but the throne of the universe.

And then again the hand that was nailed to the cross and we knew the steps to the universe. And not only that deal then but the feet that went above doing good. And the hand that was nailed and the crown the throne the holy head that was crowned with thorns was the crown that many died in.

And the Christ the man of sorrow who was treated like a beast whether you want to know and treated by a beast like a Jew instead of a throne. And even a dog can't weave his tongue and the pain painted head it'll be blasted in a minute of time.

And the child shall tell you home that he is old. I'm in the millennium now although I'm in the second verse now now notice if you please now notice if you please that Jesus is standing to suffer now you brothers and sisters you'll never be able to sympathize with a sorrow because you never had a good dose of sorrow.

That's why may you get that feeling now that the trafficking in oneself too is no use for neither man nor beast. It's only if a man feels what he's preaching and it's only if a man has been through what he's preaching that it goes down with the people of God especially a negative origin.

But for the people of God you get up and think about something that you knew nothing at all about from practical experience well the sooner you go the better. I'm satisfied the Lord never put me on the platform at least not to tell about something that they knew nothing at all about.

I remember one time when I was up to the neck in sorrow I was sure most of you knew what it Well, I was what they call in some hood and sell it up mid-winter. I didn't care very much what happened. There's my wife lying there.

A beautiful, godly, little such woman. Some people in the country knew her. And she's there. Why, I don't know. And there's five-year-old children under his daddy's watchful eye. Well, I had a tell him.

But in the midst of it all, and I won't spend any time on it, a man came in, one of his brethren, he's in heaven now. He was a sharp man. He'd give me a good talking to once or twice. But he was a sharp man, but he was a good man.

And he come in, and he looked at me, and he said nothing. And then he went to the coffin, and he looked at the wife. And he couldn't see. He looked at her. And he just put his two arms round my neck, and I'll never forget it.

And the first thing I felt was a scrawling tear. Fallen on my hands. He said nothing. He went away and left me. That's practical sympathy, my dear friend. And of a brother in Christ to do that. My friend, how much can a man of sorrows do that?

Forever on his holy heart, a weight of sorrow hung. Yet new and gentle moaning voice. A sweetly saying tongue. Marvellous, matchless, mighty great. Jesus stood for to sympathise with a suffering sister.

But he not only self-sympathised with them, but he cried, Lads, let's come forth, and restore the brother back to him again. Isn't this marvellous words? Jesus wept. Now when I speak about the humanity of Christ, I have to be very careful.

For this reason that so many religious infidels in Belfast went out to go to Russia. And they say that if Jesus was human, then he couldn't be devout. Would you think that said blame people, they say, Brethren.

I never try to make them think. They just think blame is the devil to make them. And they know a whole lot. But my friend, the diamistic repose to the essential and eternal deity, the throne of God. And they ask you what you mean.

But the Christ has a true nature, human nature, and divine nature. I speak again targetedly. And as a man he wept. And as a man he sympathised. As a man he slept. And as God he said, he filled his skin with the wings of mercy.

And as man he wept with John 11. And as God he said, come forth. And greatest Christ was not only God manifesting Christ. But he was God himself. I quote from Hebrews 1 .8, Romans 9 .5, John 1, Matthew 1.

So you see, as a man he stood and wept. As God manifesting Christ. So better still, my youth, because there's a lot of ungodly cults in Belfast. And in order to goad the people, they'll agree that Jesus Christ was God manifesting Christ.

But I've never got one in a whip that Jesus Christ was God. And if you don't believe that, you're not going to heaven. I don't care whether you're one of the brethren or not. As if Jesus Christ was not God.

As a man to offer sacrifice. And he looked to God to offer a proper sacrifice. Therefore the blessed Lord Jesus Christ was not only God manifesting the flesh. But God himself. Therefore as I watch, the earth is full of you and me fighting.

Somebody said, did you read it all? No, I'm not going to read it all. Are you confident you did? Yes. Why? Because I read enough to prove to me that the things happen. I do TTM. It may please some people, but it'll never please a spiritual man or woman.

It may please scholars, I'll grant you that. I may have tried and boasted of it enough. But my friend, listen. No matter how many explanations or interpretations you get of an unfortunate translation, it'll never put it right.

Now then, if I'm going to buy a house, I may as well tell you I haven't any idea of it yet. And I go and I see the foundation rotten. Well, I'm certainly not going to spend the time examining the house.

It's locked, and I won't touch the house so that it isn't any good. Well, now, even here you'll find the Lord Jesus Christ sort of being sympathizing with us all. And mind I tell you, it takes a good man or woman to do that.

Practicing Sympathy Through Personal Suffering

I'm reminded again when I was suffering very badly. And I had twenty-two with seven. It took it all to do to take the stars out of me. The Lord wants me to go to preach, and I didn't like to go to preach.

Man, I fought against it for nearly ten years. And so the Lord put me on my back for twenty-two weeks. And all my friends came to see me, and the first three said, You know, Frank, we told you many a time you should have stopped your work and go on with the preaching.

So they went away, God bless them. And then the next three come and they said, You know, Frank, we told you you should have stopped preaching and go on with your work. So I was in the dark just the same.

Well now, the Lord put me there to teach me what I never need to be taught again. But one day, I got a lot of visitors. And I would tell you in God's name, you people have visitors. I'm going to tell you three things.

Of course, a lot of you don't do much of it. But I want to tell you the three qualifications you need. Don't go after them. Don't stay too long. Don't talk too much. For a sick person doesn't want a lot of gossip.

And you know, I was sick. I was glad to see some of them going away. But a dear old woman came one time. And she was a godly old woman without a doubt. And she just come and she sat beside me for a long time.

And she said nothing. That's quite a change for a woman, you know. And she sat and looked at me for a long time. And I wondered why she wouldn't speak. When I found out that that woman knew what it was to suffer or suffer.

So after she sat for about twenty minutes, she came right over to me. And looking into me first with tears in her eyes. And a rattle in her throat, she said, Brother Knox, don't be angry with the Lord for asking you to carry this burden.

For the Lord has a lot of children. And he wouldn't ask them to carry a burden. Well, I don't know whether that pondered to my pride or not. But I can assure you, it was great encouragement to me. And that old woman did me more good.

And all Job's friends, and they come repeatedly. And all the rest of the people who came to see me. Oh no, if you're going to put Christianity into practice, Well, you'd have to practice it before you can put it into practice.

And if you're going to suffer, if you're going to sympathize with a suffering. And get down right to their heart, so they can reach their heart. Then you'll have to practice that. And Jesus Christ was a man of sorrows.

And he sympathized with a sorrowing in John chapter 11. As he did in the other part of the Bible, so far as I know. Jesus wept. Then he said, Lotter, come forth. And take your brother back to your Martha and Mary.