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Pog Wie ‘ oY | Again the hermit dlsapp as. im, but he drawn a vei] about bie ‘« 38 Jewish feast day came; and proselytes from every part of Palestine and John stood In the temple court and sald: a 8 19. “Prepare, O Israel, prepare to meet your King.” 20. So, you have lived in ain; the poor cry in your streets, '-. and you regard them not. : : 2}, Your neighbors, who are they? You have defrauded friends and fove alike. 22. You worship Allah with voice and lip; your hearts are far away, and set on gold. 23. Your prieata have bound upon the people burdens far too great to bear; they live in ease upon the hard earned wayes of the poor. 24. Your lawyers, doctors, scribes, are uneleaa cumberer= of the ground; they are but tumors on the body of the state. 25. They toil not, neither do they spin. yet they consume the profits of your marts of trade. 26. Your rulers are adulterers, extortioners and thieves, re- garding not the rights of man. 27. And robber ply their calling in the sacred hilla; the holy temple you have solu to thieves; their dens are in the aa- cred places set apart for prayer. 28. Hear! Hear! You people of Jerusalem! Reform: turn from your evil ways or Allah will tuzn from you, and heathen from afar vill come, and what is feft of all your honor and your fame will pass in ene short hour. 29. Prepare, Jerusalem, prepare to meet your King. 30. He said no more: he left the court and no one saw hin a a rc xo. . 31. ‘The priests, the doctors and the scribes were allin rage They sought for John, intent to do him harm. They found bin not. CHAPTER KV. Devine Ministry of Jesus—Jesus Gows to the Wilderness for Sell Examination, Where He Remains Forty Days. Is Subjected to Three Temptations—He Overcomes. Returns to the Camps of John and Begins Teaching 1. The harbinyer had paved the way: the Logos had bet introduced to men as Jove made manifest, and he must how Le gin hin divine ministry. 2. And He went forth into the wilderness to be alone with Allah, that He might look into Hie inner heart, and note th veep beaedly and worthiness. 3. And with Himaclf He tathed: He sald, “My lower self ja strong; by many ties Lam bound down to carnal tifs. 4. “Have L the strength to overcome and give my life a willing sacrifice for men? Jerusalem was filled with Jews a 1 ae the Pharouht ore : aie 6% ' Roof AllahZeommanded thesd Hae 1. And Jeruh'sald, “Who la Habe ‘“iphno algo that one tea Son of Allab } ened devils can do mighty things Ray} a Gentile | 7 Ne aie “the pr ed beet arts eee « proof o pr pe proorand then the tempter ald, “Tf yous lem and from the temple pinnacle cast down y the people will believe you are the Messlah een’ il. This you can surely do; for did not Davia His angels charge concerning you, and with th they uphold lest you shall fallt™ ely 12. And Jesus sald, “1 will not tem Altah.” ce ae cate 18. And then the tempter said, behold ita honors and its famet wealth. ; 14, “If you will give your life for: 15. But Jesus said, “Away from me My heart is fixed. I spurn this carnal ae bition and its pride.” ee 16. For forty days did Jesu: wrestle with ake His higher self prevailed. He then was hungry, but ble {rience had found Him and they ministered to Him. -- . ' hee 17. Then Jesus Jeft the wilderness, and in the conscy of Holy Breath, he came into the campe of Joba and CHAPTER XVI Pilate’s Final Effort to Releas Jesus F Hands in Feigned Innocence—Delivers Jeaus to the For Enecution—The Seldiers Drive Him te Calvary 1. A superstitious people are the Jews. They have 8. that they have borrowed from the idol worshippers 46,1 lands, that at the end of every year. ont ha Sea uo They may heap all thelr sina wpoa he is : man sect apart to bear their sins, eee 3. The tial becomes a cape gost for the maititedes they believed thal when they drive him fo : into foreign lands. they are released from al 5 4 Sy every acrirg before the feast tb . from the prisons of the land, and by a Torey of their fain would make him Lear their sina away. a &. Among the Jewish p who were leaders of a vile, seditlous thefta and murders acd rapine. rad had erucificd.