The Good Shepherd Finding His Sheep by Adolph Saphir and published by Classics Publications.
This book is a series of seven studies in how the Lord Jesus sought out and brought to Himself His own people. These studies include Nicodemus, the Samaritan Woman at the Well, the Syro-Phoenician Woman and Zacchaeus.
In the first study concerning the calling of the first disciples, Saphir writes: “What heavenly peace, calmness, confidence, and innocence breathes in the picture which the Beloved evangelist John, has given us of the first gathering of disciples, round the Divine Saviour!
After thirty years of quiet, unobtrusive obedience to the Father in heaven, and His earthly parents, He began His prophetic and Messianic office, which He has been solemnly set apart to do… Now the time is fulfilled, and having become perfectly acquainted with Satan’s strength and subtilty, with man’s frailty and vulnerability, with the agony of the struggle, and with the warfare of faith… now being fully prepared, He began His Messianic career.”
