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an 4 ao. ‘ =~ 24 ‘THE DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS: 8. “Did not the Gentile magicians do great things before “the 9. ‘My words and deeds in all the walks of life shall be the proof — i | of my Messiahship.” a 0 _ And then the tempter said: “If you will go into Jerusalem and - from the temple pinnacle cast down yourself to earth, people will : believe you are the Messiah sent from Allah. . | 1). This you can surely do; for did not David say: "He gives His angels charge concerning you, and with their hands will they uphold lest you shall fall?” . 12. And Jesus said: “I will not tempt the Lord, my God, Allah." 13. And then the tempter said: “Look forth upon the world; bebold its honors and its fame! Behold its pleasures and tts wealth. ; 14. “If you will give your life to these they shall be yours.” 15. But Jesus said: “Away from me all tempting thoughts. My heart is fixed. I spurn this carnal self with all its vain ambition and its 16. For forty days did Jesus wrestle with His carnal self ; His higher self prevailed. He then was hungry, but his friends had found Him and they npinistered to Him. . 17. Then Jesus left the wilderness, and in the consciousness of Holy ' Breath, He came into the camps of John and taught. e t% Sat - CHAPTER XVI . Pilate’s Final Effort to Release Jesus Fails—He Washes His Hands im Feigned Innocence—Delivers Jesus to the Jews for Execution— The Soldiers Drive Him to Calvary. 1. A superstitious people are the Jews. They have a faith that they have borrowed from the idol worshippers of other lands, that at the end af every year, ; . They may heap all their sins upon the head of some man apart to bear their sins. 3. The man becomes a scapegoat for the multitudes; and they be- lieve that when they drive him forth into the wilds, or into foreign ~ ; lands they are released from sins. i 4 4. bo every spring before the feast they chose a prisoner from the — prisons of the land, and by a form of their own, they fain would make = & him bear their sins away. j §. Among the Jewish prisoners in Jerusalem were three who were the leaders of a vile, seditious band, who had engaged in thefts and mur- ders and rapine, and had been sentenced to be crucified. ..:" 6 “Bafatbas and Jesus were among the men who were to die, but Barabbas was rich and had bought off priests the boon to be the scapegoat “fat the people at the coming feast, and he was anxiously in waiting food. >". , his hour to come. : he . . >“ %. Now, Pilate thought to turn his superstition to account to seve thie Lord Jesus, and so he went before the Jews and said: < = > “ a _— M Ul tT