Last Day at the Camp

178:0.1Je­sus planned to spend this Thurs­day, his last free day on earth as a di­vine Son in­car­nated in the flesh, with his apos­tles and a few loyal and de­voted dis­ci­ples. Soon af­ter the break­fast hour on this beau­ti­ful morn­ing, the Mas­ter led them to a se­cluded spot a short dis­tance above their camp and there taught them many new truths. Al­though Je­sus de­liv­ered other dis­courses to the apos­tles dur­ing the early evening hours of the day, this talk of Thurs­day forenoon was his farewell ad­dress to the com­bined camp group of apos­tles and cho­sen dis­ci­ples, both Jews and gen­tiles. The twelve were all pres­ent save Ju­das. Pe­ter and sev­eral of the apos­tles re­marked about his ab­sence, and some of them thought Je­sus had sent him into the city to at­tend to some mat­ter, prob­a­bly to ar­range the de­tails of their forth­com­ing cel­e­bra­tion of the Pass­over. Ju­das did not re­turn to the camp un­til midafter­noon, a short time be­fore Je­sus led the twelve into Je­ru­sa­lem to par­take of the Last Sup­per.