16.Q. What learn you from this saying of Thomas?
A. That in times of difficulty, it is the christians duty to encourage, exhort, and provoke one another to keep close to Christ.
18.Q. How much are 15 furlongs?
A. Two miles.
19.Q. What learn you hence?
A. That it is the duty of christians to visit their friends; particularly at the death of their relations, and to comfort them with the hopes of seeing them again raised in glory.
20.Q. Why did Mary sit still?
A. Probably out of humility, thinking herself unworthy to go, till Christ called her.
21.Q. Did Martha shew faith in saying thus?
A. Yes; but she expressed a weakness in it, since she confined Christ’s power to his bodily presence.