walkedst

Updated: May 2, 2025

'When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. By that our Lord seems to have meant, 'You were strong and proud and self- willed enough in your youth.

Charles Kingsley - Town and Country Sermons

'Oh, Christ, whose voice the waters heard And hushed their ravings at Thy word, Who walkedst on the foaming deep And calm amidst its rage did keep, Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea! sang the passengers cheerily. 'That harmonium is disgracefully out of tune, said the Captain. 'The sea air affects their insides. Well, as I was saying, we settled down in the boat.

Rudyard Kipling - Soldiers Three

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.

- New Etext of Bible: [King James Version]

... When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.... And when He had spoken this, He saith unto him, Follow Me. JOHN xxi. 18, 19. The immediate reference of these words is, of course, to the martyrdom of the Apostle Peter.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI

"When thou wast young," said our Lord to him, by the lake of Tiberias, when thou wast a child in the faith, and hadst thine own way, "thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest," as just before St.

John Henry Newman - Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VII (of 8)

The Master has just reinstated His erring apostle and friend, and proceeded to describe the death by which he was ultimately to glorify God: "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not."

F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer - Love to the Uttermost: Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.