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diff --git a/18558-h/18558-h.htm b/18558-h/18558-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9139c9e --- /dev/null +++ b/18558-h/18558-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,3182 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> + +<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + +<TITLE> +The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Good Shepherd - A Life of Christ for Children +</TITLE> + +<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> +BODY { color: Black; + background: White; + margin-right: 10%; + margin-left: 10%; + font-size: medium; + font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; + text-align: justify } + +P {text-indent: 4% } + +P.noindent {text-indent: 0% } + +P.poem {text-indent: 0%; + margin-left: 10%; + font-size: small } + +P.letter {font-size: small } + + +</STYLE> + +</HEAD> + +<BODY> + + +<pre> + +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Good Shepherd, by Anonymous + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Good Shepherd + A Life of Christ for Children + +Author: Anonymous + +Release Date: June 11, 2006 [EBook #18558] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD SHEPHERD *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + +</pre> + + +<A NAME="img-front"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-front.jpg" ALT=""I am the good shepherd. . ."" BORDER="2" WIDTH="401" HEIGHT="567"> +<H3> +[Frontispiece: "I am the good shepherd. . ."] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR> + +<H1 ALIGN="center"> +THE GOOD SHEPHERD +</H1> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +A LIFE OF CHRIST FOR CHILDREN +</H2> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY +<BR> +NEW YORK : : CHICAGO : : TORONTO +<BR> +Publishers of Evangelical Literature +</H4> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +TABLE OF CONTENTS +</H2> + +<BR> + +<CENTER> + +<TABLE WIDTH="80%"> +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">CHAPTER</TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> </TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">I. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap01">WHY JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">II. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap02">JESUS IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">III. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap03">THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IV. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap04">JOHN THE BAPTIST</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">V. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap05">JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VI. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap06">SOME WORDS AND WORKS OF JESUS</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VII. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap07">A FRIEND FOR THE SORROWFUL</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VIII. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap08">MORE WONDERFUL WORKS AND WORDS</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IX. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap09">THE MAN BORN BLIND, AND LAZARUS</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">X. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap10">THE PRODIGAL SON, AND OTHER STORIES</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XI. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap11">THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XII. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap12">THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE RESURRECTION</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">XX </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap13">SELECTED SONGS, PSALMS, AND PRAYERS</A></TD> +</TR> + +</TABLE> + +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS +</H2> + +<BR> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-front"> +"I am the good shepherd . . ." . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-008"> +Map of Palestine at the time of Christ +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-014"> +The shepherd's care +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-019"> +Bethlehem +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-023"> +Nazareth, from hill above +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-025"> +Jewish women grinding corn +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-030"> +The River Jordan +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-033"> +Jericho, from plains above +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-039"> +A modern Jew's wedding party in Galilee +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-043"> +Jacob's well +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-059"> +Ruins of Capernaum +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-071"> +The good Samaritan +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-073"> +Bethany +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-074"> +Child at prayer +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-077"> +The shepherd's care (2nd version) +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-080"> +The shepherd's care (3rd version) +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-085"> +The Jordan near Bethabara +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-090"> +Mount of Olives and Jerusalem +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-095"> +Gethsemane +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-104"> +Calvary +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-108"> +The empty tomb +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-114"> +The Sea of Galilee +</A> +</H3> + +<H3> +<A HREF="#img-117"> +The Mount of Olives +</A> +</H3> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap01"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER I +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +WHY JESUS CAME TO THIS WORLD +</H3> + + +<P> +In the beginning, before the world was made, the Lord Jesus lived in +heaven. He lived in that happy place with God. Then God made the +world. He told the hills to come up out of the earth, and the seas to +run down into the deep places which He had made for them. He made the +grass, the trees, and all the pretty flowers. He put the sun, the +moon, and the stars in the sky. He filled the water with swimming +fish, the air with flying birds, and the dry land with walking and +creeping animals. And then He said, 'Let <I>Us</I> make man.' Who were +meant by 'Us'? Who was with God when He made the world? It was Jesus. +The Bible says: +</P> + +<P> +'THE WORD (that means Jesus) WAS WITH GOD, AND THE WORD WAS GOD. THE +SAME WAS IN THE BEGINNING WITH GOD. ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY HIM.' +</P> + +<P> +So after He had made everything else, God made a man, and named him +Adam. God put Adam into the beautiful Garden of Eden, and at first he +was good and very happy. God also made a woman, named Eve, to be his +wife, and to help him to take care of the garden. All the fruit in the +garden, except what grew on one tree, was given to Adam and Eve to eat; +all the animals were their servants; and God was their Friend. +</P> + +<P> +A wicked angel, who had been turned out of heaven, saw how happy Adam +and Eve were, and he was angry, and thought, 'I will make them as bad +and unhappy as I am; I will make them do what God has told them not to +do. Then he will turn them out of Eden, and they and their children +will be my servants for ever, and I shall be king of the world.' +</P> + +<P> +So the wicked angel, whose name was Satan, came into Eden. He got Adam +and Eve to take the fruit which God had told them not to eat, and God +had to send them out of the beautiful garden; for God had said He would +punish Adam and Eve if they took that fruit, and God always keeps His +word. +</P> + +<P> +But God went on loving Adam and Eve even when He knew that He must +punish them, and He tried to make them good in this way. He thought, +'I will send My dear Son down to the earth. He shall become a little +child, and grow up to be a man, and shall die for the sins of the +world.' +</P> + +<P> +Hundreds and hundreds of years passed away before Jesus came. But a +great many of the people who lived in Palestine were expecting Him. +God had said that when Jesus came, He would be a Jew. The Jews were +very proud about that. They often talked about the coming of Jesus. +When they talked about Him, they called Him the Messiah. +</P> + +<P> +Just before Jesus was born, the Jews were very unhappy. Roman soldiers +had been fighting with them, and had conquered them, and made them +servants of the great Roman king. He was called Augustus Caesar, and +he gave the Jews another king called Herod. He was very wicked. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-008"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-008.jpg" ALT="Map of Palestine at the time of Christ." BORDER="2" WIDTH="382" HEIGHT="640"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Map of Palestine at the time of Christ.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +The Jews longed to get rid of Herod, and many of them thought, 'It will +be all right when the Messiah comes. The Messiah will fight against +the Romans; He will drive them away from our land; and then He will be +our King instead of that wicked Herod.' But only a few Jews remembered +that Jesus was coming to fight against Satan and against sin. +</P> + +<P> +The place where the Jews lived had four or five names. It was called +the Land of Canaan at the first, then the Land of Promise, and then the +Land of Israel. But we call it the Holy Land, or Palestine. +</P> + +<P> +If you look at the map of Palestine, you will see a river running from +the north of Palestine to the south. That river is called the Jordan. +And Palestine is divided into four parts,—one at the top (we call that +the north), one at the bottom (we call that the south), one in the +middle, and one on the other or eastward side of the Jordan. +</P> + +<P> +The part in the North is called Galilee. The part in the south is +called Judaea. The part in the middle is called Samaria. The part on +the other side of the Jordan is called Perea. +</P> + +<P> +Palestine is full of hills, with great holes, called caves, in their +sides. Palestine is not very big; England is about six times, and New +York State about five times larger. Washington is called the capital +of the United States. The capital of Palestine was Jerusalem. +</P> + +<P> +Jerusalem was a very beautiful city. It was built on four or five +hills which were very close together. One of these hills was called +Mount Moriah. On the top of Mount Moriah there was a great Temple +where the Jews went to pray. Part of the Temple was called the Holy +Place, the part at the very top of the mountain. It was splendid with +its shining gold and white marble, but it was not very large, for the +people were not allowed to go into it. When it was time for the Jews +to go to the Temple, silver trumpets were blown once, twice, three +times, and then the gates were thrown open, and the people crowded into +the courts. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap02"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER II +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +JESUS IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM +</H3> + + +<P> +Mary, the mother of Jesus, lived in the little town of Nazareth, among +the hills of Galilee. She was going to be married to a carpenter +called Joseph, who, like herself, lived in Nazareth. One day God sent +the angel Gabriel to Mary with a message. Mary, when she saw and heard +the angel, was a little frightened. But the angel told her he had some +glad news for her. Jesus, the Son of God, the Messiah, was coming into +the world very soon, and He was to come in the form of a baby, as +Mary's little child. And Gabriel said that when He was born, Mary must +call Him JESUS. +</P> + +<P> +Mary had a cousin named Elizabeth, who lived more than a hundred miles +away from Nazareth, and Mary longed to talk with her about all these +wonderful things. So she got ready for a long journey, and went off +into the hill country of Judaea to see Elizabeth. +</P> + +<P> +And God had also promised to send Elizabeth a son. And soon after +Mary's visit the baby was born, and all Elizabeth's friends were glad, +and came to see her, and to thank God with her for His great kindness. +</P> + +<P> +The little Jew babies have a name given to them when they are eight +days old. And Elizabeth's son was named John. +</P> + +<P> +One night, soon after Mary got back from her cousin Elizabeth's house, +the angel of the Lord spoke to Joseph in a dream. The angel told +Joseph to marry Mary, and he told him Mary's secret about the Son of +God coming to earth as her little child, and he said to Joseph, 'THOU +SHALT CALL HIS NAME JESUS, FOB HE SHALL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR +SINS.' When Joseph woke up, his first thought was to do what the angel +had told him, and he at once took Mary to his own home as his wife. +</P> + +<P> +About this time Caesar Augustus, the great Emperor at Rome, sent word +to Herod that he was to take a census of the Jews. Everybody's name +had to be written down and his age, and many other things about him. +Every twenty years Augustus had a census taken, so that he might know +how much money the Jews ought to pay him, and how many Jew soldiers he +ought to have. +</P> + +<P> +In Palestine, at census time, people had to go to the towns where their +fathers' fathers lived a long time ago, and had to have their names put +down there instead of having them put down in their own homes. Now, +both Joseph and Mary belonged to the family of the great king David, +who was born in Bethlehem. So Mary had to prepare for a long journey, +and go with her husband to Bethlehem. Bethlehem is six miles from +Jerusalem. It is on the top of a hill, and people have to climb up a +steep road to get into the town. +</P> + +<P> +An inn is a large house that people stay at when they are on a journey. +The inns in Palestine have four walls, with a door in front, and with a +great empty space for camels and horses inside. In the middle of the +empty space is a fountain; and all round the walls, a little bit higher +than the part where the animals are, there are a number of places like +empty stone arbors. These empty places are called <I>leewans</I>, and they +are open in front, so that everybody can see into them. Yet Mary and +Joseph, after all their long journey from Nazareth, could not find even +an empty <I>leewan</I> to lie down in. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-014"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-014.jpg" ALT="The shepherd's care." BORDER="2" WIDTH="527" HEIGHT="374"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The shepherd's care.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Near that inn there was a place in which asses and camels were kept. +It was perhaps a cave in the side of the hill. And because there was +no room for them in the inn, Mary and Joseph had to go into that stable +to sleep, and in that stable Jesus Christ was born. Mary wrapped Him +in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in the manger in the place where the +animals' food was kept. +</P> + +<P> +On the hill where Bethlehem stands there are green places where +shepherds feed their flocks. There are wild animals in Palestine; and +all night long the shepherds of Bethlehem watched to see that no harm +happened to their sheep. One night an angel of the Lord stood by them +and a bright light shown round about them. The shepherds were afraid; +but the angel said, 'FEAR NOT; FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU GOOD TIDINGS (OR +NEWS) OF GREAT JOY, WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE. FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN +THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID A SAVIOUR, WHICH is CHRIST THE LORD.' +And suddenly there was seen with the angel a number of the angels of +heaven. And they praised God, and said, 'GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, +AND ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN.' +</P> + +<P> +When the light faded, and the song ended, and the angels had gone back +into heaven, the shepherds climbed quickly over the hillside to +Bethlehem. And there, in the stable near the inn, they found Mary and +Joseph, and the Babe lying in the manger, as the angels had said. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus was the eldest son of His mother. And the eldest sons in Jewish +houses, when they were forty days old, were taken to the Temple, and +given to God. +</P> + +<P> +So now, when Jesus was nearly six weeks old, He was brought from +Bethlehem by Mary and Joseph to the Temple at Jerusalem. The mothers +used to take a lamb with them, or two pigeons, as a sacrifice to God. +Mary took two pigeons. She was not rich enough to buy a lamb. +</P> + +<P> +A long way on the eastern side of the Jordan, there were countries +where the people used to watch the sun and the moon and the stars very +carefully. If they saw anything new and strange in the heavens, they +thought it meant that something wonderful was going to happen. But +some of them knew and had heard from the Jews about God, and about the +Messiah who was coming; and they, like the Jews, were longing for Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +One day these wise men saw a bright star which they had never seen +before. And as they looked at it they felt sure that a great King of +the Jews had been born in Judaea. So they took camels and rich +presents of gold and sweet-smelling stuff—such as people gave to kings +in those days—and they loaded their camels, and left their homes, and +rode for many weeks till they came to Jerusalem. And when they got +there they said, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews? for we +have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him.' +</P> + +<A NAME="img-019"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-019.jpg" ALT="Bethlehem." BORDER="2" WIDTH="586" HEIGHT="369"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Bethlehem.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +When Herod heard about these wise men he was troubled. He sent for the +best priests, and other clever men, and asked them where Christ would +be born. And they said to him, 'In Bethlehem of Judaea.' They had +read that in the Bible. Then Herod said to the wise men, 'Go and +search out carefully about the young Child; and when ye have found Him, +bring me word, that I also may come and worship Him.' +</P> + +<P> +When the wise men had heard the king, they went away to Bethlehem, and +lo, the star went before them, till it came and stood over where the +young Child was. And they rejoiced with great joy. And when they were +come into the house (there was room in the inn now) they saw the young +Child with Mary, His mother, and they fell down and worshipped Him, and +they gave Him their presents—gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. But +the wise men did not go back to Herod. God told them in a dream not to +go. So they went home by another way instead. +</P> + +<P> +After the wise men were gone, the angel of the Lord came to Joseph in +his sleep, and said to him, 'Arise, and take the young Child and His +mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: +for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.' That meant to +kill Him. So Joseph at once got up, and took the young Child and His +mother by night, and went away to Egypt. +</P> + +<P> +When Herod found that the wise men did not come back, he was very +angry, and he sent his soldiers to Bethlehem, and had all the baby boys +killed—all the children who were less than two years of age. And they +killed all the baby boys in the places near Bethlehem as well. And the +poor mothers cried, and nobody could comfort them. +</P> + +<P> +Joseph and Mary stayed in Egypt, waiting for the angel to bring them +word that it was time to go back again to Palestine. And one night, +when Jesus was about three years old, the message came. The angel of +the Lord said to Joseph in a dream, 'Arise, and take the young Child +and His mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which +sought the young Child's life.' Joseph got up, and took the young +Child and His mother, and went into the land of Israel. But when he +came there, people said to him, 'Herod is dead, but his son Archelaus +is king.' And when Joseph knew that Archelaus was king, he was afraid +to stay in Judaea. And God spoke to him again in a dream, and told him +to go back to Galilee. So Joseph and Mary went back to Galilee, and +lived in Nazareth again. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap03"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER III +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE BOYHOOD OF JESUS +</H3> + + +<P> +The Bible tells us only a few stories about the time when Jesus was a +little boy. +</P> + +<P> +Nazareth is built up the side of a hill, and there are plenty of +gardens and fields down below. Amongst these fields there is a +fountain, where the women of Nazareth go to fetch water. Jesus must +often have gone with His mother to that fountain; and sometimes, when +she was tired, He may have fetched the water for her Himself. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-023"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-023.jpg" ALT="Nazareth, from hill above." BORDER="2" WIDTH="586" HEIGHT="369"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Nazareth, from hill above.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Mary wore a long blue dress, tied round the waist, and a cap with +pieces of money sewn round it, and a white cloth over her head and +shoulders, just as the women of Nazareth do now; and Jesus was very +likely dressed in a red cap, a bright tunic, a sash of many colours, +and a little jacket of white or blue, just as the boys of Nazareth are +dressed now. +</P> + +<P> +The houses of Nazareth are white. Grape vines grow over their walls, +and doves sit and coo on the flat roofs. There is not much inside the +houses: sometimes they have only one room. There is a lamp in the +middle of the room, and round the walls there are waterpots. There are +bright-coloured quilts on a shelf. People unroll these quilts at night +and lie down upon them. There are mats and carpets in the house, and a +bright-coloured box with treasures in it, and a painted wooden stool; +and that is nearly all. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-025"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-025.jpg" ALT="Jewish women grinding corn." BORDER="2" WIDTH="487" HEIGHT="339"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Jewish women grinding corn.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +When the people of the house want to eat, they put a tray of food on +the wooden stool, and they sit round the tray on the floor, and eat +with their hands. People in Palestine would not know what to do with +tables and chairs, and knives and forks, like ours. +</P> + +<P> +The streets of Nazareth are long and narrow, and they are full of +chickens and dogs, of donkeys and camels, of blind beggars and +children. There are little shops by the side of the streets, something +like the <I>leewans</I> in the inn which I told you about. But the tailors, +the shoemakers, the carpenters, and the coffee-grinders do not always +sit in their shops. They like to sit on the ground outside, and do +their work in the street; and the sellers of dates and of figs, beans, +barley, oranges, and other things, sit down in the street to sell their +goods. +</P> + +<P> +Joseph, Mary's husband, was a carpenter, and Jesus became a carpenter, +and often came out of the little shop and sat on the ground with plane, +hammer, glue, and saw, and worked away in the narrow street, just as +the carpenters of Nazareth do now. +</P> + +<P> +When the Jewish boys were twelve years old, they were called 'Sons of +the Law,' and they were taken to Jerusalem for the Passover. When +Jesus was twelve years old, Joseph and His mother took Him up with them +to the Passover. When the week was over, Mary and Joseph started for +the journey back to Nazareth. But Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. +Thousands of people must have been leaving Jerusalem just at the very +time that Mary and Joseph went away. So when Mary and Joseph did not +see Jesus in the crush, they did not at first feel frightened. They +thought, 'We shall find Him soon with some of our friends.' All day +long they kept on looking for Him in the crowd, but they did not see +Him. And at last they went back again to Jerusalem looking for Him. +</P> + +<P> +Next day they found Him in one of the courts of the Temple. Several +Rabbis were there, and everyone who saw and heard Him was astonished. +They asked Him questions too, and He answered them wisely and well. +Nobody could understand how a young boy could be so wise. +</P> + +<P> +When Mary and Joseph saw Jesus sitting here, with Rabbis coming all +around Him, they were greatly surprised. But His mother asked Him why +He had stayed behind, and said, 'Thy father and I have sought Thee +sorrowing.' Jesus said to His mother, 'HOW IS IT THAT YE HAVE SOUGHT +ME? WIST YE NOT (DID YOU NOT KNOW) THAT I MUST BE ABOUT MY FATHER'S +BUSINESS?' +</P> + +<P> +And now He went back with her and with Joseph to Nazareth, and obeyed +them, exactly as He always had done. We do not know much more about +Jesus when He was a boy. But we do know that as He grew taller, He +'increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.' +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap04"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER IV +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +JOHN THE BAPTIST +</H3> + + +<P> +You remember about the child that was called John. Zacharias, his +father, and Elisabeth gave John to God directly he was born. They +never cut his hair, and they never let him drink wine, or eat grapes, +or eat raisins. That was the way they did in those days to show that +he belonged to God. +</P> + +<P> +When John was old enough to understand, he gave himself to God. And as +he grew older, he made up his mind that he would leave his home and +friends, and go and live in the wilderness; and his food there was +locusts and wild honey. Locusts are like large grasshoppers, and poor +people in the East often eat them. They taste like shrimps, but are +not so nice. +</P> + +<P> +God had said that John should go before the Messiah to prepare the way +for Him—to get people's hearts ready for the Saviour. And when John +was in the wilderness, God told him to begin his work. So John went +down from the wild hills of Judaea to the River Jordan, and he began to +preach to everyone who passed by. There were many people passing by, +for he went to the place where people crossed the Jordan. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-030"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-030.jpg" ALT="The River Jordan." BORDER="2" WIDTH="597" HEIGHT="360"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The River Jordan.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +John said, REPENT!' (that means, 'Be really sorry for your sins'), 'FOR +THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN is AT HAND.' A very great many people went from +Jerusalem, and out of all the land of Judaea, on purpose to hear John +preaching. And when they had heard him, some of them said to him, +'What shall we do then?' And John told them that they were to be kind +to one another; that they were to give food to the hungry and clothing +to the naked. +</P> + +<P> +Some even of the proud Rabbis came down to the Jordan to John, and John +told these Rabbis that they must not be proud because they were Jews, +but must try to be good really and truly. +</P> + +<P> +A great many of the people who heard John preach felt sorry for the +things they had done, and they told John how sorry they were, and John +baptized them in the River Jordan. John told the people that he could +only baptize their bodies with water, but that some one else was coming +who would be able to baptize their hearts with the Holy Spirit. This +was Jesus. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-033"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-033.jpg" ALT="Jericho, from plains above." BORDER="2" WIDTH="597" HEIGHT="361"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Jericho, from plains above.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +After John had baptized a great many persons, he saw coming to him, one +day, for baptism, a Man about thirty years old; and when John looked at +Him, he saw that He was quite different from all the people who had +been to him before. It was Jesus who had come to be baptized before He +began His work. He wanted to obey God in everything; and He wanted to +show that He was the Brother and Friend of all the people whom John had +been baptizing. And so, as Jesus wished it, John went into the River +Jordan with Him and baptized Him. +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus had been baptized, and was full of the Holy Spirit, He went +away into a wilderness. And there, when Jesus was tired and hungry, +Satan came to Him—just as he came to Adam and Eve in the Garden of +Eden—to tempt Him. +</P> + +<P> +To tempt means to try. Mother tries you sometimes, to see whether you +can be trusted; and God tries us all sometimes. But if God tries us, +it is to make us better; and if Satan tries us, it is to make us worse. +</P> + +<P> +Every time that Jesus was tempted, He said, 'It is written,' and then +He told Satan something 'which was written in the Bible. That is the +very best way to fight Satan. The Bible is called 'the Sword of the +Spirit,' and Satan is afraid when he sees us using that Sword. Let us +ask God to fill us, like Jesus, with the Holy Spirit, and then we shall +soon learn how to use the Sword of the Spirit, and we too shall be able +to drive Satan away when he comes to tempt us. +</P> + +<P> +Only we must be sure to read the Bible, as Jesus used to do, or else we +shall never be able to drive Satan away by telling him the things that +God has written there. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap05"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER V +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +JESUS BEGINS HIS WORK +</H3> + + +<P> +One day, when the fight of Jesus with the devil in the wilderness was +over, He came to Bethabara, where John was baptizing, and when John saw +Jesus coming towards him, he said: +</P> + +<P> +'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.' +</P> + +<P> +The next day John saw Jesus again, and again he said the same words: +</P> + +<P> +'BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD!' +</P> + +<P> +John called Jesus the Lamb of God, because He had come to die for our +sins. +</P> + +<P> +Two men were standing close to John when Jesus came by, and they heard +what he said. The name of one of these men was Andrew, and of the +other John. Jesus knew that they would like to speak to Him, so He +turned round and asked them what they wanted. 'Master,' they said, +'where dwellest Thou?' (that means 'where are you living?') Jesus +said, 'Come, and you shall see.' And He took the two disciples to His +home, and He let them stay with Him the whole of the day. What a happy +day that must have been! +</P> + +<P> +Andrew had a brother called Simon, and he went and found him, and told +him that he had found the Messiah, and brought him to see his new +Master. So now Jesus had three disciples—John, Andrew, and Simon; and +next day He took them away with Him to Galilee. While they were going +along, Jesus saw a man called Philip, who came from the place where +Simon and Andrew lived when they were at home. Jesus told Philip to +come with Him, and he came. But Philip went to a friend of his, a very +good man called Nathanael, also called Bartholomew, and he told him +that he had found Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, and begged him to +come and see Him. +</P> + +<P> +How many disciples had Jesus now? Let us see. John, Andrew, Simon, +Philip, and Nathanael—five. And very likely John had brought his +brother James to Jesus. If so, that would make six. +</P> + +<P> +Directly Jesus came into Galilee He was invited to a wedding, at a +place called Cana, and all of His disciples with Him. Jesus went to +the wedding because He likes to see people happy, and loves to make +them happy. In America, people often drink more wine at weddings and +at other times than is good for them, and a great many people go +without any wine at all, so as to set a good example. But in the East +it is different. The people there hardly ever take too much wine. So +Jesus allowed His disciples to use it, and He drank it Himself. There +was some wine at the wedding party to which Jesus went; but presently +it came to an end. Then Mary came to Jesus, and said, 'They have no +wine.' Jesus knew what Mary was thinking about, but He had to tell her +to wait; and He had to make Mary understand that He could not do +everything now which she told Him to do, exactly as when He was a boy. +He was God's Son as well as Mary's, and He had God's work to do, and He +must do it at God's time. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-039"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-039.jpg" ALT="A modern Jew's wedding party in Galilee." BORDER="2" WIDTH="597" HEIGHT="361"> +<H3> +[Illustration: A modern Jew's wedding party in Galilee.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +But when Mary went back, she told the servants to do whatever Jesus +told them. Close to the house there were six great stone jars or +waterpots, and Jesus said to the servants, 'Fill the waterpots with +water. And they filled them up to the brim. And lo! when the water +was taken out of the jars, it was water no longer, but wine. +</P> + +<P> +This was the very first miracle that Jesus did, and He did it to make +people happy, and to make them believe that He was the Son of God. +Dear children, Jesus wants you to be happy. And the best way to be +happy is to ask Jesus to go with you everywhere and always, just as +those wedding people asked Him to come to their party. +</P> + +<P> +He did not stay very many days in Capernaum. The lovely spring flowers +told Him that the Passover time was coming, so He went up with His +disciples, to Jerusalem. When Jesus had come to Jerusalem, you may be +sure that His disciples and He soon went to the Temple, and when they +got inside the great Court of the Gentiles they found a market was +going on there. Men were selling oxen and sheep and doves for +sacrifice. Others were sitting at little tables changing money. And +there must have been plenty of noise, for people in the East shout and +quarrel a great deal when they are buying or selling. +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus saw this, He was angry; and He made a whip with pieces of +cord, and He drove away all the people who were selling in the Temple. +And He turned out the sheep and the oxen; and he told the men who sold +doves to take them away, and not turn His Father's House into a store. +Jesus upset the tables of the money-changers too, and poured out their +money. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus did a great many wonderful things when He was in Jerusalem that +Passover time, and many persons saw His miracles, and thought, 'Yes, +this is the Messiah.' But Jesus did not trust any of those people. He +knew that they did not really love Him. But there was one man in +Jerusalem who did want to be Jesus Christ's disciple. His name was +Nicodemus. He was a great Rabbi, but not proud like the other Rabbis, +and he wanted to ask Jesus a great many questions. But he did not want +the other Rabbis and the priests to see him coming to Jesus. So he +came to Jesus by night—in the dark. +</P> + +<P> +Did Jesus say, 'You are not brave, Nicodemus, I am ashamed of you; go +away'? Ah no! He talked kindly to him, and He told him that he would +have to be born again. He meant that Nicodemus must ask God to send +him His Holy Spirit, and to give him a new heart. And then Jesus +explained to Nicodemus why He had come down from heaven. He said: +</P> + +<P> +'GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT +WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING +LIFE.' +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap06"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VI +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +SOME WORDS AND WORKS OF JESUS +</H3> + + +<P> +Jesus having to go to Galilee, made up His mind to pass through +Samaria. It was a long, rough journey, and at last they came near a +town called Sychar. Near by was the well dug by Jacob when he lived in +Shechem. Jesus was so tired that He sat down to rest on the edge of +the well, while His disciples went on to buy food. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-043"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-043.jpg" ALT="Jacob's well." BORDER="2" WIDTH="597" HEIGHT="361"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Jacob's well.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +While Jesus was sitting by the well, a woman came there to draw water. +Jesus asked her to do something kind for Him, He said 'Give Me to +drink.' The woman was surprised, and said to Him, 'You are a Jew, and +I am a Samaritan. Why then do you ask me for water?' +</P> + +<P> +Jesus said, 'IF YOU KNEW WHO I AM, YOU WOULD HAVE ASKED ME, AND I WOULD +HAVE GIVEN YOU LIVING WATER.' Jesus meant the Holy Spirit. He gives +the Holy Spirit to everyone who asks Him. +</P> + +<P> +Then Jesus spoke to the woman about the bad things she had done, and +she tried to make Him talk about something else. But she could not +stop His wonderful words. At last she said, 'I know that the Messiah +is coming. He will tell us all things.' Then Jesus said to her, 'I +THAT SPEAK UNTO THEE AM HE.' +</P> + +<P> +Just then His disciples came up to the well, and they were very much +astonished to see Him talking to the woman. The Jew men were too proud +to talk much to women, even if the women were Jews; and this was a +Samaritan. But the disciples did not ask Jesus any questions about why +He talked to the woman. They brought Him the things they had been +buying, and said, 'Master, eat.' But Jesus was so happy that He had +been able to speak good words to that poor woman that He did not feel +hungry any more. He told His disciples that doing God's work was the +food He liked best. +</P> + +<P> +After this Jesus lived for awhile first at Nazareth, and then at +Capernaum. There was a boy ill in Capernaum just then with a fever. +It is so hot near the Sea of Galilee that the people who live there +often get fever. That sick boy's father was rich, but money could not +make the dying boy well. His father had heard of Jesus, and when he +knew that Jesus had come into Galilee, and that He was only a few miles +away, he came to Him, and begged Him to come down to Capernaum and make +his child well. At first Jesus said to him, 'You will not believe on +Me unless you see Me do some wonderful thing.' But when He saw how +eager the poor father was, He thought He would try him, and He said to +him, 'Go thy way, thy son liveth.' Directly Jesus said that, the man +felt sure in his heart that his boy was well. He did not ask Jesus any +more to come with him, but he just went back home quietly by himself. +</P> + +<P> +Next day, as he was going down the long hilly road from Cana to +Capernaum, some of the servants from his house came to meet him, and +they said to him, 'Thy son liveth.' Then the father asked them what +time it was when the boy began to get better, and said, 'Yesterday, at +the seventh hour (that means at one o'clock) the fever left him.' Then +the father knew that that was the very time when Jesus had said to him, +'Thy son liveth,' and he and all the people in the house believed in +Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +The Jews could not bear paying taxes to the Romans, and they hated the +publicans. They would not eat with them or talk with them. But Jesus +did not hate the publicans. He only hated the wrong things they did. +So one day, when He was outside the town of Capernaum, and saw Matthew +sitting and taking the taxes, He said to him, 'Follow Me.' And Matthew +got up from his work, and at once left all and followed Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus often told His disciples beautiful stories. One day He told them +a story to teach them not to be proud like the Pharisees. 'Two men +went up into the Temple to pray: the one a Pharisee, and the other a +publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I +thank Thee that I am not as other men are; I thank Thee that I am not +even as this publican. Twice a week I go without food, and I give away +a great deal of money. But the publican, standing afar off, would not +lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, +saying, God be merciful to me, a sinner. When the publican went home +that night he was better and happier than the Pharisee. The Pharisee +<I>thought</I> he was good; he did not want to be forgiven, and so God let +him carry all his sins back home with him again. But the publican +<I>knew</I> he was a sinner, and was sorry, and so God forgave his sins.' +</P> + +<P> +While Jesus was in Capernaum, He went every Sabbath day to teach in the +synagogue. One day a man shouted out— +</P> + +<P> +'What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth? I know Thee who +Thou art, the Holy One of God.' +</P> + +<P> +Satan had put an unclean spirit, or devil, in that man. Jesus was not +angry with the poor man, but He spoke to the unclean spirit, and said, +'Be silent, and come out of him.' He came out, and the man became +well. The people in the synagogue were greatly surprised. They said, +'What thing is this? He commandeth even the unclean spirits and they +obey Him.' +</P> + +<P> +When the service was over, the people who had seen the miracle went +home, and talked to everybody about what they had seen. Some of them +had sick friends, and some had friends with unclean spirits, and they +longed to bring them to Jesus. But it was the Sabbath, and they would +not bring them until the evening, at which time their Sabbath came to +an end. So as soon as the sun set that Sabbath day, a great crowd was +seen standing round Peter's house. It seemed as if all the people of +Capernaum must be there! They had brought their sick friends, and laid +them down at the door. And Jesus put His hands on the sick people, and +healed them all. +</P> + +<P> +In the east there is a dreadful illness called leprosy, and the people +who have it are called lepers. No doctor can cure it. At the time +when Jesus lived on the earth, lepers were not allowed to come into +cities. And they had to go about with nothing on their heads, and with +their dresses torn, and with their mouths covered over; and when they +saw anybody coming, they had to call out, 'Unclean! unclean!' +</P> + +<P> +One day when Jesus went into a town a leper saw Him. The poor man came +to Jesus and knelt down before Him, and fell on his face. And he said, +'If Thou wilt, Thou canst make me clean.' And Jesus put out His hand, +and touched him, and said to him, 'I will; be thou clean.' And as soon +as Jesus had said that, the leper was well. +</P> + +<P> +Sin is just like leprosy. A baby's naughtiness does not look very bad; +but that naughtiness spreads and gets stronger as baby gets older, and +nobody but Jesus can take it away. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus Christ's body must often have felt very tired, for crowds +followed Him about all the time. They came from Perea, and from +Judaea, and from other places too, to see the wonderful new Teacher. +And Jesus preached to them all, and healed their sicknesses. The most +wonderful sermon that was ever preached in all the world is called the +Sermon on the Mount, because Jesus sat down on a hill to preach it. +</P> + +<P> +After a time Jesus went up again to Jerusalem. In or near Jerusalem +there was a spring of water which was as good as medicine, because it +made sick people well if they bathed in it often enough. This spring +ran into a bathing-place called the Pool of Bethesda. Numbers of sick +persons came to bathe in that pool. One Sabbath day Jesus saw quite a +crowd there. Some were blind, some were lame, some were sick of the +palsy. They were sitting, or lying, by the side of the pool. Jesus +was very sorry for one poor man there. He had been ill thirty-eight +years. So Jesus said to the man, 'Arise, take up thy bed, and walk.' +And at once the sick man was well, and took up his mattress and walked. +</P> + +<P> +Now the Rabbis had a number of very silly rules about the Sabbath day. +Even if a man broke his arm or his leg on the Sabbath the Rabbis would +not allow the doctor to put the bone right till the next day. So they +were very angry when they found that Jesus had made that poor man well +on the Sabbath day, and had told him to carry his mattress home. They +told the man he was doing very wrong, and they tried to kill Jesus. +But Jesus told them that His Heavenly Father was never idle, and that +He must do the same works as God. That made the Rabbis more angry than +ever. They said, 'He calls God His own Father, making Himself equal +with God.' From that time the Jews in Jerusalem made up their minds +more than ever to kill Jesus; and wherever He went they sent men to +watch Him and listen to His words, so that they might make up some +excuse for putting Him to death. +</P> + +<P> +What kind of work does God do on Sunday, dear children? Why, He does +all sorts of kind and beautiful things. He makes the sun rise, and the +flowers grow, and the birds sing; and He takes care of little children +on Sunday exactly the same as he does on other days. And Jesus did the +same kind of work, He made people happy and well on the Sabbath. And +we may do <I>works of love</I>—kind, loving things for other people—on +Sunday. +</P> + +<P> +Another Sabbath day, soon after that, the Lord Jesus and His disciples +were walking through a cornfield. The disciples were hungry, so they +rubbed some corn in their hands as they went along, and ate it. Some +of the Pharisees saw the disciples, and they were shocked; and they +spoke to Jesus about it. But Jesus told the Pharisees that the +disciples were doing nothing wrong. He said, 'THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR +MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH; THEREFORE THE SON OF MAN IS LORD ALSO +OF THE SABBATH DAY.' Jesus meant that God gave the Sabbath day to Adam +and his children as a beautiful present, to be the best and happiest +day of all the seven. God meant it as a rest for our souls and bodies. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap07"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VII +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +A FRIEND FOR THE SORROWFUL +</H3> + + +<P> +One day Jesus went to a town called Nain (or Beautiful), about +twenty-five miles from Capernaum. A great crowd of people followed +Jesus and His disciples; and when they came near to the gate of the +city of Nain, they saw a funeral coming out. The dead body of a young +man was being carried out on a bier to be buried. +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus saw the poor mother crying and sobbing, He felt very sorry +for her, and He said to her, 'Weep not.' And Jesus came and touched +the bier, and the men who were carrying it stood still. And Jesus +said, 'Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.' And life came back into +that dead body again. He that was dead sat up and began to speak. And +Jesus gave him back to his mother. +</P> + +<P> +A Pharisee, called Simon, once asked Jesus to come and have dinner with +him. When anyone in that land went to a feast, the master of the house +used to kiss him, and say, 'The Lord be with you,' and put some sweet +smelling oil on his hair and beard, and the servants used to bring the +visitor water to wash his feet. But none of those kind things were +done to Jesus when He came to that Pharisee's house. Presently Jesus +and Simon began to eat. In that country, people often <I>lay</I> down to +eat. Broad settees, or couches, were put round the table, and the +visitors used to lie down in rows on these settees. Their heads were +near the table, and their feet were the other way. They lay down on +their left side, and they had cushions to put their elbows on, so that +they could raise themselves up while they were eating. While Jesus and +Simon were at dinner, a woman came in out of the street. In the East, +people walk in and out of other people's houses just as they like. But +that woman had been very wicked, and Simon was not pleased when he saw +her come in. But nobody said anything to her. So she came to Jesus, +and stood at His feet, behind the couch on which He w as lying, and +cried till the tears ran down her face. Then as her tears dropped on +to the feet of Jesus, she stooped down and wiped them away with her +long hair. And then she kissed the feet of Jesus many times, and put +precious sweet-smelling ointment upon them. Perhaps she had heard some +beautiful words which Jesus had just been saying to the people out of +doors— +</P> + +<P> +'COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND I WILL GIVE +YOU BEST.' +</P> + +<P> +Her sins were like a heavy load, and so she had come to Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +But Simon thought to himself, 'If Jesus had really come from God, He +would have known how wicked this woman is, and He would not have +allowed her to touch Him.' +</P> + +<P> +Jesus knew what Simon was thinking, and He said that once upon a time +there were two men who owed some money. One owed a great deal of +money, and the other owed a little. But when the time came for them to +pay the money they could not do it. And the kind man forgave them both. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus then asked Simon which of the two men would love that kind friend +most. +</P> + +<P> +Simon said, 'I suppose he to whom he forgave most.' +</P> + +<P> +Jesus said that that was quite right. Then He turned to the woman, and +said to Simon: 'Seest thou this woman? I came into thine house; thou +gavest Me no water for My feet, but she has washed My feet with tears, +and wiped them with the hairs of her head. Thou gavest Me no kiss, but +this woman, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss My feet: +My head with oil thou didst not anoint, but she hath anointed My feet +with ointment. I say unto thee, her sins, which are many, are +forgiven, for she loved much; but to whom little is forgiven, the same +loveth little.' And then Jesus said to the woman, 'THY SINS ARE +FORGIVEN. THY FAITH HATH SAVED THEE. GO IN PEACE.' And she left her +heavy load of sin with Jesus, and took away instead the rest and peace +He gives. +</P> + +<P> +After Jesus had finished all the work He wanted to do in Nain, He went +again into every part of Galilee to tell people the good news that a +Saviour had come. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus preached to the crowds out of a boat. He told them most +beautiful stories. They liked these stories so much that they did not +care to go away—not even when it was evening. But Jesus and His +disciples needed rest, so Jesus told the disciples to go over to the +other side of the lake. +</P> + +<P> +When the boat started, Jesus was so tired that He lay down at the end, +out of the way of the men who were rowing, and put His head upon a +pillow, and fell fast asleep. Soon the wind began to blow, and it blew +louder and louder. Then the waves curled over and dashed into the +boat till the boat was nearly full. But still Jesus slept quietly on. +The disciples were afraid that their boat would sink, and they came to +Jesus, and woke Him, and said, 'Master! Master! we perish! Lord, +save!' And Jesus arose, and told the wind to stop, and He said to the +sea, 'Peace, be still.' And suddenly the wind stopped, and the sea was +quite smooth. Then Jesus said gently to His disciples, 'Where is your +faith?' Those disciples might have known that the boat could not sink +when Jesus was in it. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-059"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-059.jpg" ALT="Ruins of Capernaum." BORDER="2" WIDTH="597" HEIGHT="387"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Ruins of Capernaum.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +When Jesus came back to Capernaum, a man, called Jairus, fell down at +His feet and begged Him to go to his house, where his little girl, +about twelve years old, was dying. So Jesus and His disciples started +to go to Jairus' house, and a great crowd of people went with Him. But +while they were going, someone came to Jairus, and said, 'It is of no +use to trouble the Master any more. The child is dead.' But Jesus +said to him quickly, 'Do not be afraid. Only believe, and she shall be +made well.' +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus came to the house of Jairus, He heard a great noise. As +soon as anyone dies in the East, people come to the house, and cry and +howl, and play wretched music. They are paid to do that. That was the +noise which Jesus heard, and he asked, 'Why do you make this ado? The +little maid is sleeping.' And those rude people laughed at Jesus, just +as if He did not know what He was talking about. So Jesus turned them +all out. +</P> + +<P> +Then Jesus took three of His disciples—Peter, and James and John—and +Jairus and his wife; and they went together to look at the child. +There she was, lying quite still. Life had flown away from her body. +But Jesus took hold of the girl's hand, and said, 'My little lamb, I +say unto thee, Arise.' And life flew back to her body again, and she +opened her eyes and got up, and walked. And Jesus told her father and +mother to give her something to eat. +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus came out of Jairus' house, two blind men followed Him, +begging Him to make them well. Jesus waited till He had got back to +the house where He was staying and then He touched their eyes, and made +them see. +</P> + +<P> +Just about this time Jesus had some very sad news. Herod Antipas, the +son of wicked King Herod, had shut up John the Baptist in a prison, +called the Black Castle, by the side of the Dead Sea. Part of that +castle was a beautiful palace, with lovely furniture and a coloured +marble floor. One day Herod gave a grand birthday party. Herod had +married a very wicked woman, who was at the party. Her name was +Herodias. Herodias hated John the Baptist, because he had said that +she ought not to be Herod's wife. So she made up her mind to have John +the Baptist killed. Herodias had a daughter called Salome, who danced +beautifully. And on that birthday Herod was so pleased with Salome's +dancing that he said, 'I will give you anything you ask me for.' +Salome went to her mother, and said, 'What shall I ask?' And Herodias +said, 'Ask for the head of John the Baptist.' And Salome came back +quickly and said, 'I want the head of John the Baptist.' +</P> + +<P> +Now, it is wrong to break a promise. But it is not wrong to break a +<I>wicked</I> promise. It is wrong ever to have made it. Herod was sorry, +but he was afraid of what other people in the party would think if he +did not do what he had said. So he sent his soldiers to the prison, +and had John the Baptist's head cut off to give to that dancing-girl. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus had sent His twelve disciples out to preach to people He could +not go and see Himself. When they came back they had a great deal to +talk about, and they were very tired. But there were always so many +people coming to see Jesus that they could get no quiet time at all, no +time even to eat. They were all at the Lake of Galilee again, and +Jesus told them to come away with Him into a desert place, and rest +awhile. That desert place was near a town called Bethsaida, where +Peter, and his brother Andrew, and Philip lived once upon a time. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus and His disciples got into a boat as quietly as they could, and +went away. But some people near the lake caught sight of the boat, and +they saw who was in it; and they ran so fast along the shore of the +lake that they got to the desert before Jesus was there. Jesus felt +very sorry for these people, and He began to teach them many things. +By and by it got late, and Jesus said to the disciples, 'How many +loaves have you? Go and see.' And Andrew said, 'There is a boy +herewith five barley loaves and two fishes; but what are they among so +many?' And Jesus told him to bring the loaves and fishes. Then Jesus +said, 'Make the people sit down.' So the disciples arranged the crowds +in rows on the grass. And when every one was ready, Jesus took the +five loaves and the two fishes in His hands, and He blessed them, and +divided them, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave +them to the people. And there was plenty for everybody. Jesus made +those loaves and fishes last out till everybody had had enough. And +then He said, 'Gather up the fragments (that means the little pieces) +that are left, that nothing be lost.' And the disciples picked the +little pieces up, and put them together in baskets. And there were +twelve large baskets full—more than they had at first. There were +five thousand men in that grassy place, and a great many women and +children besides. And when the people saw the miracle that Jesus had +done they said, 'THIS MUST BE THE MESSIAH;' and they wanted to make Him +their king—the king of their country, but not the king of their hearts. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus did not wish to be made a king like Herod or Caesar. He was God, +so He was King of kings already. He made His disciples go away at once +in the boat to the other side of the lake, and He sent the crowds away +Himself. When Jesus was alone, He went up into a mountain and prayed. +But now a great wind began to blow, and the waves on the Sea of Galilee +began to toss about. The disciples rowed hard, but they could not get +on; the wind kept trying to blow them back. But Jesus saw them, and +when the night was nearly over, He came to them walking on the sea. +The disciples had never seen Him walking on the water before, and they +could not understand who He was, and they cried out for fear. But +Jesus was sorry for them, and He spoke kindly to them directly and +said, 'BE OF GOOD CHEER (that means, 'Be glad'). IT IS I. BE NOT +AFRAID.' +</P> + +<P> +And Peter said, 'Lord, if it be Thou, bid me come unto Thee on the +water.' And Jesus said, 'Come.' And Peter jumped out of the boat, and +walked on the water to go to Jesus. But soon Peter began to think of +the rough wind and waves instead of thinking about Jesus, and then he +could not get on at all, and he began to sink in the water, and called +but, 'Lord, save me!' And Jesus put out His hand and caught him, and +said, 'O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?' Then they +both came into the boat, and the wind stopped blowing. And the +disciples fell down at the feet of Jesus, and said 'THOU ART THE SON OF +GOD.' Then, all at once, they saw that their boat was close to the +land. Jesus had brought it there. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap08"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VIII +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +MORE WONDERFUL WORKS AND WORDS +</H3> + + +<P> +And now Jesus went right away from the Sea of Galilee again to Caesarea +Philippi. That place was called Caesarea after Augustus Caesar, +Emperor of Rome, and Philippi after Herod Philip. When they were going +to Caesarea Philippi, Jesus talked quietly to His disciples, and said, +'Whom do you say that I am?' Peter almost always spoke first, before +the others had time to say anything, and he said quickly, 'THOU ART THE +CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.' Jesus was very much pleased with +that answer. +</P> + +<P> +Then Jesus called the people who stood near, and His disciples too, and +He told them that if they followed Him, they too might have to die for +His sake. But He told them that they must not mind that, because +heaven is better than this world. And He told them that if they were +ashamed of Him, He should be ashamed of them before His Father and the +holy angels. Dear children, I hope, when you go to school, or are with +your little friends, that you will never be ashamed of Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +About a week after that talk with His disciples, Jesus took Peter, and +James, and John into a high hill alone to pray. There is a splendid +high mountain near Caesarea Philippi, called Hermon. All at once, as +Jesus was praying, the disciples saw that His face shown like the sun, +and His clothes were white and shining like the light. And as the +disciples looked, they saw two men talking with Jesus, called Moses and +Elijah, two holy men who went to heaven long, long ago. We do not know +how long they talked. Peter, and James, and John were men, so they +could not look very long at those heavenly visitors; soon their eyes +closed, and they fell fast asleep. When they woke up, Moses and Elijah +were still there, and when the disciples saw Jesus again, looking so +bright and beautiful, they were very much afraid. +</P> + +<P> +When they came down from the mountain, they saw a crowd down below. +Jesus had left nine of His disciples behind when He went up Mount +Hermon; and now He saw a great number of persons all round them, and +heard some Jews worrying them with questions. When Jesus came near +enough to speak, He asked what was the matter. And a man came running +to Him out of the crowd, and begged Him to look at his boy—his only +child. And he said to Jesus, 'If Thou canst do anything, take pity on +me, and help me.' And Jesus made the boy well from that very hour. +The disciples had not had faith enough themselves to be able to do that +sick boy any good. +</P> + +<P> +Every year the Jews had to pay half a shekel of money for the splendid +Temple in Jerusalem; and when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the men who +were collecting the money came to Peter, and said, 'Does not your +Master pay the half-shekel?' And Peter said, 'Yes.' Now the Temple +was God's house, and Jesus was God's Son. And Jesus explained to Peter +when he came into the house that kings did not expect their own sons to +pay them taxes. But it was not wrong to pay the half-shekel, and Jesus +never vexed people if He could possibly help it, so He said to Peter, +'Go thou to the sea and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first +cometh up, and when thou hast opened its mouth, thou shalt find a piece +of money. That take, and give unto them for Me and thee.' +</P> + +<P> +And now, after a long time, Jesus and His disciples went up to +Jerusalem again; and as they walked along, they saw ten lepers standing +a long way off. As Jesus came near, they cried out, 'Jesus, Master, +have mercy on us.' Nine of the lepers were Jews, and one was a +Samaritan. And Jesus was sorry for them all, and said, 'Go, show +yourselves to the priests.' So they turned straight round to go to the +priests, and lo! as they were going along the road, they suddenly felt +that they were strong and well again. When the Samaritan felt in +himself that the leprosy had gone away, he turned back, and threw +himself down at the feet of Jesus, and thanked Him, and thanked God too +for all His goodness. But none of the nine Jews came back to thank +Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +A few days after that a man came to Jesus, and asked how he could get +to heaven. Jesus said that he must love God with all his heart, and +his neighbor as himself. Then the man said, 'Who is my neighbor?' So +Jesus told him this story, THE GOOD SAMARITAN: 'A certain man went down +from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him +of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. +And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he +saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite, when +he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other +side. But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and +when he saw him, he had compassion on him. And went to him, and bound +up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, +and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. And on the morrow +when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and +said unto him, 'Take care of him: and whatsoever thou spendest more, +when I come again, I will repay thee.' When Jesus had finished that +story, He said, 'Which now of these three was neighbor unto him that +fell among the thieves?' You can answer that question, and can go and +do like that good Samaritan. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-071"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-071.jpg" ALT="The good Samaritan." BORDER="2" WIDTH="344" HEIGHT="498"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The good Samaritan.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Just opposite the Temple hill, Mount Moriah, there was another hill, +called the Mount of Olives. On the other side of the Mount of Olives +was a village, called Bethany, and Jesus often walked over the hill to +see some friends of His there, a brother and two sisters who lived in +the village. Their names were Mary and Martha and Lazarus. Jesus +loved them very much, and they loved Him. But Mary and Martha showed +their love in very different ways. Mary sat as quiet and still as +possible when Jesus came in, and listened to every word that He said; +and Martha wanted so much to make Him happy and comfortable that she +ran about the whole time doing things for Him, instead of listening to +the beautiful words He was saying. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-073"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-073.jpg" ALT="Bethany." BORDER="2" WIDTH="592" HEIGHT="371"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Bethany.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Jesus likes you and me to work for Him; but He likes us to talk to Him +in prayer too, and to listen to the things that He whispers in our +hearts, and to the words that He says to us in the Bible. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-074"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-074.jpg" ALT="Child at prayer." BORDER="2" WIDTH="331" HEIGHT="253"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Child at prayer.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap09"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER IX. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE MAN BORN BLIND, AND LAZARUS. +</H3> + + +<P> +One Sabbath day, most likely the next Sabbath day after the Feast of +Tabernacles, Jesus saw a blind beggar out of doors. That poor man had +always been blind. He had never been able to see at all. Jesus spat +on the ground, and put the wet earth on the blind man's eyes, and said, +'Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.' And the man went and washed, and +came back able to see. The people who met him began to ask him, 'How +were thine eyes opened?' And the man told them. Then they wanted to +know where Jesus was. But the man did not know that. Then the people +brought him to the Pharisees to see what they would say. And the +Pharisees said, 'How is it that you can see now?' And the man told +them. +</P> + +<P> +Then the Pharisees turned him out of the synagogue. Jesus heard about +that, and He came to the lonely man, and said, 'Dost thou believe on +the Son of God?' And the man said, 'Who is He, Lord, that I might +believe 'on Him?' And Jesus said to him, 'THOU HAST BOTH SEEN HIM, AND +HE IT IS THAT TALKETH WITH THEE.' Then the man fell down at the feet +of Jesus, saying, 'Lord, I believe.' +</P> + +<P> +And now Jesus turned to the Pharisees, and told them that <I>they</I> were +very blind. They could see things with their eyes, but they could not +see that their hearts were full of sin. Then Jesus preached one of the +most beautiful of all His sermons. In it He said, 'I am the Door of +the sheep; by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved. I am the Good +Shepherd; the Good Shepherd giveth His life for the sheep. I am the +Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of Mine; and I lay down +My life for the sheep, And other sheep I have which are not of this +fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice, and there +shall be one flock under one Shepherd.' +</P> + +<A NAME="img-077"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-077.jpg" ALT="The shepherd's care (2nd version)." BORDER="2" WIDTH="371" HEIGHT="568"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The shepherd's care (2nd version).] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +The 'other sheep' Jesus spoke about meant the Gentiles, the people who +are not Jews. It meant you and me, and it meant all the heathen. He +has called us. He is calling the heathen. And many sheep, many quiet +little lambs, have heard the voice of Jesus, and are following Him. +Have you heard Him calling you? Have you followed Him? if not, oh, +make haste to go after Him now. +</P> + +<P> +Soon after Jesus had gone away from Bethany, His friend Lazarus became +very ill. Martha and Mary longed for Jesus now, and they thought, 'If +Jesus were here, our brother would not die;' and they sent a messenger +to Him to say 'Lord, he whom Thou lovest is sick.' When Jesus heard +that, He stayed on quietly where He was for two days longer. Then He +came to Bethany, and by this time Lazarus had been in the grave for +four days. Presently somebody came to Martha, and said to her quietly, +'Jesus is coming.' When Martha heard that, she got up, and went out to +meet Him. And when she saw Jesus, she said, 'Lord, if Thou hadst been +here, my brother would not have died; but I know that even now whatever +Thou wilt ask of God, God will give it Thee.' Jesus said to her, 'Thy +brother shall rise again.' When Jesus saw how unhappy Mary and Martha +were, He too felt very sad, and said, 'Where have ye laid him?' And +they said, 'Lord, come and see.' And then——Jesus wept. 'See how He +loved Lazarus,' said the Jews; and they wondered that Jesus had let His +friend die. +</P> + +<P> +Now they had come to the grave. It was a hole in the side of a rock, +and there was a heavy stone over it. Jesus said, 'Take ye away the +stone;' and they rolled it away. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and +thanked God that He had heard His prayer and given Him back the life of +Lazarus. And then He cried with a loud voice, 'Lazarus, come forth.' +And the man who had been dead came out of the cave alive. When the +Jews saw what was done, some of them believed, but others hurried off +to Jerusalem to make mischief as fast as they could. +</P> + +<P> +After a time Jesus crossed the Jordan and again came into Perea, and +then He came slowly down through Perea to Jerusalem. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-080"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-080.jpg" ALT="The shepherd's care (3rd version)." BORDER="2" WIDTH="362" HEIGHT="247"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The shepherd's care (3rd version).] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap10"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER X +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE PRODIGAL SON, AND OTHER STORIES. +</H3> + + +<P> +One day, when the mothers of Perea brought their little ones to Jesus, +the disciples found fault with them for coming, and tried to keep them +away. But when Jesus saw what the disciples were doing He was much +displeased, and said to them— +</P> + +<P> +'SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN, AND FORBID THEM NOT, TO COME UNTO ME: FOR OF +SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.' +</P> + +<P> +And He took them up in His arms, put His hands upon them, and blessed +them. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus used to tell some very beautiful stories as He went slowly +through the Holy Land. We have not room for all, but I must tell you +two or three, and I will tell you them exactly as Jesus first told them. +</P> + +<P> +'A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his +father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And +he divided unto them his living. +</P> + +<P> +'And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and +took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance +with riotous living. +</P> + +<P> +'And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; +and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a +citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. +And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine +did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he +said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to +spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and +will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before +thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy +hired servants. +</P> + +<P> +'And he arose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way +off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran and fell on his +neck, and kissed him. +</P> + +<P> +'And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and +in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. +</P> + +<P> +'But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and +put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and +bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be +merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and +is found.' +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +THE STORY OF THE UNMERCIFUL SERVANT. +</P> + +<P> +At another time Jesus said— +</P> + +<P> +'Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which +would take account of his servants. And when he had begun to reckon, +one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. But +forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, and +his wife, and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. +</P> + +<P> +'The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, +have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. +</P> + +<P> +'Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed +him, and forgave him the debt. +</P> + +<P> +'But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, +which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him +by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest. +</P> + +<P> +'And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, +Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. +</P> + +<P> +'And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should +pay the debt. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-085"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-085.jpg" ALT="The Jordan near Bethabara." BORDER="2" WIDTH="570" HEIGHT="355"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The Jordan near Bethabara.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +'So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, +and came and told unto their lord all that was done. Then his lord, +after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I +forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me: shouldest not +thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity +on thee? And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, +till he should pay all that was due unto him. +</P> + +<P> +'So likewise shall my Heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your +hearts forgive not every one his brother.' +</P> + +<P> +Jesus often told beautiful parables: here are two— +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +THE STORY OF THE TARES. +</P> + +<P> +'The kingdom of Heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in +his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among +the wheat, and went his way. +</P> + +<P> +'But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then +appeared the tares also. +</P> + +<P> +'So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst +not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? +</P> + +<P> +'He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. +</P> + +<P> +'The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them +up?' +</P> + +<P> +'But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also +the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest: and in +the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first +the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat +into my barn.' +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +THE STORY OF THE TEN VIRGINS. +</P> + +<P> +'Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which +took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bride-groom. +</P> + +<P> +'And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were +foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took +oil in their vessels with their lamps. +</P> + +<P> +'While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. +</P> + +<P> +'And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; +go ye out to meet him. +</P> + +<P> +'Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. And the +foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone +out. +</P> + +<P> +'But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us +and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. +</P> + +<P> +'And while they went to buy, the bride-groom came; and they that were +ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. +</P> + +<P> +'Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. +</P> + +<P> +'But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not. +Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the +Son of Man cometh.' +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap11"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XI. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE LAST DAYS IN JERUSALEM. +</H3> + + +<P> +When it was time for Him to end His work on earth, Jesus started for +Jerusalem. The people in Jerusalem heard that He was coming, and +crowds of them poured out of Jerusalem to meet Him. They carried +boughs of palm trees in their hands, and waved them, and cried, +'HOSANNA! BLESSED BE THE KING THAT COMETH IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! +PEACE IN HEAVEN, AND GLORY IN THE HIGHEST.' +</P> + +<P> +Presently Jesus came to a part of the Mount of Olives where He could +see Jerusalem and the Temple straight before Him; and as He looked at +them, He wept aloud. He wept because they loved their sins, and hated +their Saviour. He wept because He knew that God would have to punish +them. He knew that in a very few years the Romans would come and fight +against Jerusalem, and burn down that Temple, and kill thousands of the +Jews, or carry them away as slaves. Were not these things enough to +make the Lord Jesus weep? +</P> + +<A NAME="img-090"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-090.jpg" ALT="Mount of Olives and Jerusalem." BORDER="2" WIDTH="586" HEIGHT="366"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Mount of Olives and Jerusalem.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +The blind and the lame came to Jesus in the Temple, and He made them +well; and when the little children cried, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF +DAVID,' He was pleased to hear their song. But the priests were very +angry. 'Hosanna to the Son of David' means 'Save us, Jesus, our King.' +The priests could not bear to hear the children call Jesus their King, +and ask Him to save them. And Satan is very angry now when He hears a +little child say, 'Save me, O Jesus, my King.' But Jesus is pleased. +</P> + +<P> +During these last days Jesus stayed quietly each night at Bethany; but +the priests were very busy thinking how they could take Him prisoner, +and they were very pleased when Judas came in secretly, and said, 'Give +me money, and I will give you Jesus.' And the priests said they would +give Judas thirty pieces of silver if he would give Jesus up to them. +Thirty pieces of silver! Why, that was only about seventeen dollars +($17)—only as much as used to be paid for a slave. +</P> + +<P> +The next day while Jesus stayed quietly in Bethany, Peter and John were +very busy, for Jesus had sent them to Jerusalem to get ready for the +Passover. They had to take a lamb to the Temple to be killed by the +priests, and they had to find a house in which to eat the Passover +supper. +</P> + +<P> +Once every year the Jews used to kill a lamb, and pour out its blood +before God, to show that they remembered God's goodness to them when +they were in Egypt, in letting his angel pass over their houses. And +then they roasted the lamb, and met together in their houses to eat it, +and to thank God for all his love and kindness. +</P> + +<P> +When Peter and John had got the Passover supper quite ready, Jesus came +from Bethany with the rest of His disciples, and they all sat down +together at the table; and Jesus told the disciples that He was very +glad to eat this Passover with them, because it was the very last time +He would eat and drink at all before He died. Then Jesus took off His +long, loose outside dress, and He wrapt a towel round Him, and poured +water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe +them with the long towel which He had fastened round His waist. +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus had finished washing His disciples' feet, He put on His long +coat again (it was called an <I>abba</I>), and sat down. And He told His +disciples that He had given them an example, so that they might be kind +to one another, and wait upon one another. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus said many beautiful words to His disciples that night at the +supper; and when the supper was finished, they went out into the Mount +of Olives, to a place called Gethsemane, a garden full of olive trees, +where Jesus often went to pray. +</P> + +<P> +When Jesus came to Gethsemane with His disciples, He told them to sit +down and wait for Him while He went on farther to pray. But He took +with Him Peter and James and John. As they walked on, Jesus began to +be so very sorrowful that He wanted to be quite alone with God. So He +told Peter and James and John to stay behind and to watch. But they +went to sleep. And then Jesus went a little way off, and fell down on +His knees and prayed. And now His mind was in such pain that He +suffered agony, and the sweat rolled down His face in drops of blood. +Then Jesus came to Peter and James and John, and found them fast +asleep. Twice Jesus went away and prayed the same prayer, and twice He +came back to find His disciples asleep. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-095"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-095.jpg" ALT="Gethsemane." BORDER="2" WIDTH="583" HEIGHT="347"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Gethsemane.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +And now a great crowd poured into the garden. Judas was walking first, +to show the others the way, and he came up to Jesus and kissed Him +again and again, and said, 'Master! Master! Peace!' And when the +people saw Judas do that, they took hold of Jesus and held Him fast. +They took Jesus first to the house of a priest called Annas, and then +to the palace of Caiaphas the high priest; and John, who knew somebody +in that house, was allowed to come in. Peter was left outside; but +soon John asked the girl at the door to let Peter in too. Peter was +glad to come in to see what was being done to his dear Master. +</P> + +<P> +The houses in the East are built round a great square court, like a big +hall, only it has no roof. It was the middle of the night, and the +cold air blew into that court. But the servants had made a great fire +of coals in the middle of the court, and while Jesus was standing +before Caiaphas and the other priests, the servants sat round that fire +waiting, and warming themselves. Peter came and sat down with the +servants, and warmed himself too. +</P> + +<P> +Presently the girl who attended to the door came up to the fire, and +she had a good look at Peter, and said, 'And you were with Jesus of +Nazareth. Are you not one of His disciples?' Then Peter told a lie +before all the servants, and said, 'Woman, I am not. I do not know +Him, and I do not know what you mean.' And he went on warming himself, +and tried to look as though he knew nothing in the world about Jesus. +But Peter loved Jesus too much to be able to do this well. He was +unhappy, he could not sit still; he got up, and went away into a place +near the door, called the porch, and when he was in the porch he heard +a cock crow. Perhaps he went into the porch because he thought that it +would be dark there and that nobody would see him. But the girl who +kept the door told another woman to look at him, and that woman said to +the people who stood by, 'This fellow was with Jesus of Nazareth, and +is one of His disciples.' Then a man who stood there said to Peter, +'Are you not one of His disciples?' And again Peter told a lie, and +said, 'Man, I am not. I do not know the Man.' +</P> + +<P> +An hour passed by, and then some of the people near said, 'You must be +one of the disciples of Jesus. The way that you speak shows that you +come from Galilee.' While Peter was again denying him, Jesus turned +round, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered what Jesus had said +to him, 'Before the cock crow twice, you will say three times you do +not know Me.' And when he thought about what he had done, he was very, +very sorry; and he went out of the high priest's palace, and wept +bitterly. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap12"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XII +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE CRUCIFIXION AND THE RESURRECTION +</H3> + + +<P> +When the morning came, the priests met once more with all the chief +Jews, and said Jesus must die. But the Jews could not put anyone to +death. The Romans would not allow it. So they took Jesus to the Roman +governor, whose name was Pontius Pilate. +</P> + +<P> +When Judas saw that the priests had made up their minds to kill Jesus, +he began to feel very unhappy. He did not care for the money now. He +came to the Temple, and brought it back to the priest, and said, 'It +was very wrong of me to give Jesus up to you. He had done nothing +wrong.' But their hearts were as hard as stone. They said to Judas, +'What is that to us? See thou to that.' Then Judas had no hope left. +He flung the thirty pieces of silver down in the Court of the Priests, +and went and hung himself. But oh! what a pity that he did not go to +Jesus and ask Jesus to forgive him, instead of going to the priests! +Jesus is a good, kind, loving Master. When we do wrong, if we are very +sorry, like Peter, and will come and ask Jesus, He will forgive us. For +</P> + +<P> +'THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, GOD'S SON, CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN.' +</P> + +<P> +Pilate took Jesus inside his splendid palace, away from the Jews, and +asked Him, 'Art thou a King then?' +</P> + +<P> +'Yes,' Jesus said, 'but My kingdom is not of this world. I came into +this world to teach people the truth. That is the reason I was born.' +</P> + +<P> +'What is truth?' said Pilate. But he did not wait for an answer. He +went out again to the Jews. +</P> + +<P> +When the Jews saw Pilate again, they began to tell him lies which they +had been making up about Jesus. And Jesus stood by and said nothing. +Presently Pilate said to Jesus, 'See what a number of things they are +saying against you. Have you nothing to say?' +</P> + +<P> +But Jesus did not answer one single word, and Pilate was greatly +surprised. He felt sure that the quiet prisoner was right and that the +Jews were wrong; and he said to the priests and to the people, 'I find +in Him no fault at all.' +</P> + +<P> +It was the custom for Pilate at Passover time to set free from prison +any one prisoner the people liked to ask for. So Pilate said to the +crowd, 'Shall I let Jesus go?' Then the priests told the people what +to say, and they shouted, 'Not this man, but Barabbas.' +</P> + +<P> +Pilate wanted very much to let Jesus go, and he said, 'What shall I do +then with Jesus?' +</P> + +<P> +The crowd shouted, 'Let Him be crucified! Crucify Him! Crucify Him!' +</P> + +<P> +'Why,' said Pilate, 'what has He done wrong? He does not deserve to +die. I will scourge Him and let Him go.' +</P> + +<P> +Then the people cried out more loudly than ever, 'Let Him be crucified! +Crucify Him!' +</P> + +<P> +But Pilate did not want to be shouted at for five or six days and +nights again. And, besides, he rather wanted to please the Jews if he +could, because he had done many things to vex them; so he thought, 'I +will do what they wish.' But first he had a basin of water brought, +and he washed his hands before all the people, and said, 'I have +nothing to do with the blood of this good Man. See ye to it.' And all +the people answered and said, 'His blood be on us, and on our +children.' Sometimes now, when we don't want to have anything to do +with a thing, we say, 'I wash my hands of it.' But Pilate did have +something to do with the death of Jesus, and water would not wash away +that sin. +</P> + +<P> +And at last, wishing to please them, Pilate had Barabbas brought out of +prison, and gave Jesus up to be beaten. The Roman soldiers seized +Jesus, and took off His clothes and put a scarlet dress on Him, to +imitate the Emperor's purple robe; and they twisted pieces of a thorny +plant which grows round Jerusalem into the shape of a crown, and put it +on His head; and they put a reed in His hand for a sceptre. And then +all the soldiers fell down before Jesus, and said, 'Hail, King of the +Jews.' And then they spit at Jesus, and slapped Him; and they snatched +the reed out of His hands and struck Him on the head, so as to drive in +the thorns. +</P> + +<P> +Outside the city gate, on the north side of Jerusalem, there is a round +hill, called the Place of Stoning. On one side of that hill there is a +straight yellow cliff, and prisoners used sometimes to be thrown down +from that cliff, and then stoned. And sometimes they were taken to the +top of that round hill and crucified. It is very likely that this is +where the soldiers took Jesus. That hill is often called Calvary. +</P> + +<P> +The soldiers made Jesus lie down on the cross, and they nailed Him to +it—putting nails through His hands and His feet. Then they lifted up +the cross with Jesus on it, and fixed it in a hole in the ground. And +Jesus said, +</P> + +<P> +'FATHER, FORGIVE THEM; FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.' +</P> + +<P> +Then the soldiers crucified two thieves, and put them near Jesus, one +on each side; and they nailed up some white boards at the top of the +crosses with black letters on them, to say what the prisoners had done. +They put over Jesus Christ's head the words— +</P> + +<P> +'THIS IS JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.' +</P> + +<P> +Three hours of fearful pain passed away. It was twelve o'clock. And +now it became quite dark and it was dark till three o'clock in the +afternoon. That was a dreadful three hours more for Jesus. It was a +time of agony of mind, like the time He spent in the Garden of +Gethsemane. He was having His last fight with Satan, and He felt quite +alone. When it was about three o'clock, Jesus cried out with a loud +voice, 'It is finished.' And He cried again with a loud voice, and +said, 'Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit.' And He bowed His +head and died. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-104"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-104.jpg" ALT="Calvary." BORDER="2" WIDTH="594" HEIGHT="366"> +<H3> +[Illustration: Calvary.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +And now wonderful things happened. The ground shook; the graves +opened; dead people woke up to life again; and a great veil, or +curtain, which hung before the most holy part of the Temple, was +suddenly torn into two pieces. The high priest used to go once a year +into that Most Holy Place to offer sacrifice for sin before God. But +when the great purple and gold curtain was torn down without hands, it +was just as if a voice from heaven had said, 'No more blood of lambs, +no more high priest is wanted now. Jesus, the real Passover Lamb, has +been sacrificed. Jesus has offered His own blood before God for +sinners, and God will forgive every sinner who trusts in the blood of +Jesus.' +</P> + +<P> +Then a rich man, called Joseph, came to Pilate and begged Pilate to let +him have the body of Jesus to bury. Pilate said that Joseph might have +the body of his Master. And Joseph came and took it down from the +cross; and he and Nicodemus wrapped the body round with clean linen, +with a very great quantity of sweet-smelling stuff inside the linen. +</P> + +<P> +There was a garden close to the place where Jesus was crucified, and in +that garden there was a grave which Joseph had cut in a rock. The +grave was not like those which we have. It was a little room in the +rock, with a seat on the right hand, and a seat on the left, and with a +place in the wall just opposite the door for the body. Joseph and +Nicodemus laid the body of Jesus in this new grave. Then they came +out, and rolled a great round stone over the door, and went away. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus was crucified on Friday, and now it was Sunday. It was very +early in the morning. The soldiers were watching at the grave of +Jesus, and all was still; when suddenly the earth began to tremble and +shake. And behold, an angel came down from heaven, and rolled away the +stone at the door of the tomb, and the Lord of Life came out. The +soldiers did not see Jesus, but they did see the shining angel. The +Roman soldiers shook with fright. They were so frightened that they +had no strength left in them, and as soon as they could they ran away +from the place. +</P> + +<P> +And now that the soldiers had gone, some women came near—Mary +Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, Joanna, Salome, and at least one +or two more women. They had brought with them some sweet-smelling +spices, which they had made or bought, to put round the body of Jesus. +The light was beginning to come in the sky, to show that the sun would +be up soon, but it was still rather dark. As the women came along, +they said one to the other, 'Who will roll away the stone for us from +the door of the tomb?' For it was very great. Then they looked, and +behold! the stone was gone. And Mary Magdalene ran back to the city, +to tell Peter and John that the door of the tomb was open. But the +other women went on, and went into the tomb where they had seen Jesus +laid. He was not there now, but an angel in a long white robe was +sitting on the right-hand side of the tomb. Then the women saw two +angels standing by them in shining clothes, and they were afraid, and +fell on their faces to the ground. Then one of the angels said to +them, 'Fear not. He is not here; He is risen.' +</P> + +<A NAME="img-108"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-108.jpg" ALT="The empty tomb." BORDER="2" WIDTH="503" HEIGHT="412"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The empty tomb.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +But Mary Magdalene after all had been the first to see Jesus. She had +run off to tell Peter and John that the stone was rolled away. As soon +as Peter and John knew that, they ran off to the grave as fast as they +could, and Mary Magdalene went after them. John could run the fastest, +so he got there first, and just peeped in through the little door in +the rock. The angels had gone away, but he could see the linen +bandages. They were not thrown about here and there, but they were +lying neatly together. But when Peter came up he wanted to see more +than that, and he went straight into the tomb, and John followed him. +When Peter and John saw that the body of Jesus had really gone, they +went away back to the city and told the other disciples. +</P> + +<P> +But Mary Magdalene did not go back. As she turned away from the grave +she saw that somebody was standing near the grave. It was really +Jesus, but she did not know that. She was too sad to look up. +</P> + +<P> +And Jesus said to her, 'Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?' +</P> + +<P> +Mary thought, 'It is the gardener,' and she said, 'Sir, if you have +carried Him away, tell me where you have laid Him, and I will take Him +away.' +</P> + +<P> +Then Jesus said, 'Mary.' And Mary turned round quickly, and said, +'Master.' Then she saw that it was Jesus, and He sent her with a +message to His disciples. So Mary hurried back again into the city +with her good news. She found the disciples, and when she said, 'I +have seen the Lord,' they would not believe it. And when some other +women who had met Jesus a little later came in, and said, 'We have seen +the Lord,' it was just the same. The disciples only thought, 'What +nonsense these women talk!' Before the women came in, two of the +disciples had gone for a very long walk. As they walked along, and +talked, Jesus came near, and went with them. +</P> + +<P> +While Jesus talked and the disciples listened, they came to the village +of Emmaus. That was the end of the disciples' journey, and now Jesus +began to walk on by Himself. But the disciples begged Him to stay with +them, 'Abide with us,' they said; 'it is getting late. It will soon be +evening.' So Jesus went in, and sat down at table with them. And He +took bread in His hands, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to +them. Perhaps Jesus had some special way of saying grace which made +the disciples know who He was. Anyway, they knew Him now. And then, +suddenly, He was gone. Cleopas and his friend could not keep their +good news to themselves. They got up at once, and went back, more than +seven miles, to Jerusalem, and found a number of the Lord's friends and +disciples sitting together at supper. Some of them were saying, 'THE +LORD IS RISEN INDEED.' +</P> + +<P> +Then Jesus Himself came to them, and He told them that it was very +wrong not to believe. Then, when He saw that they were frightened, He +said, 'Peace be unto you,' and He showed them His hands and His feet, +and ate some fried fish and honey which they had put on the table for +supper. That was to make them understand that His body was really +alive as well as His soul. And now the disciples were filled with +gladness and Joy. +</P> + +<P> +Then Jesus told them the same things that He had been explaining to +Cleopas and his friend, and He said to them— +</P> + +<P> +'AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, EVEN SO SEND I YOU. GO YE INTO ALL THE +WORLD, AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.' +</P> + +<P> +That is the great missionary text. A missionary means, you remember, +'one who is sent.' That text was meant for you and for me, as well as +for the first disciples of Jesus. +</P> + +<P> +After these things, the eleven disciples went away to Galilee, and +waited for Jesus to meet them there. +</P> + +<P> +One day Thomas and Nathanael, and James and John, and two other +disciples, were together by the side of the Sea of Galilee. Peter was +there too, and he always liked to be doing something, so he said to the +others, 'I go a-fishing.' And they said, 'We will also go with you;' +and at once they all jumped into a little ship, and pushed off into the +lake. But that night they caught nothing. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-114"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-114.jpg" ALT="The Sea of Galilee." BORDER="2" WIDTH="589" HEIGHT="360"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The Sea of Galilee.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Next morning Jesus came and stood on the shore. The disciples could +see Him, because the little ship was now pretty near to the land, but +they did not know Him. Jesus said to the men in the boat, 'Children, +have you anything to eat?' +</P> + +<P> +They thought, I suppose, that this stranger wanted to buy some fish, +and they said, 'No.' Then Jesus said, 'Cast the net on the right side +of the ship, and you shall find.' +</P> + +<P> +And the disciples did what Jesus had said, and at once the net became +so heavy with fish that the fishermen could not pull it into the boat. +</P> + +<P> +Then John said to Peter, 'It is the Lord.' +</P> + +<P> +When Peter heard that, he jumped into the water, so as to get quicker +to land. The other disciples stayed in the boat, and dragged the fish +along after them. When the boat got to land, Peter helped the other +men to pull the net in. It was full of great fishes—a hundred and +fifty and three. Jesus had got a fire of coals ready on the beach, and +some bread; and some fish were broiling on the fire. And now Jesus +said to the tired fishermen, 'Come and dine,' and He waited upon them +Himself. +</P> + +<P> +After that day by the Sea of Galilee, the disciples went to a mountain +which Jesus told them about. And Jesus met them there, and said to +them, 'Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. AND LO I AM WITH YOU +ALWAY, EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD.' There is another splendid +missionary text. +</P> + +<A NAME="img-117"></A> +<CENTER> +<IMG SRC="images/img-117.jpg" ALT="The Mount of Olives." BORDER="2" WIDTH="600" HEIGHT="374"> +<H3> +[Illustration: The Mount of Olives.] +</H3> +</CENTER> + +<P> +Jesus stayed on earth for forty days, and when the forty days were +over, He went for a last walk with His disciples. He took them the way +they had so often gone together—over the Mount of Olives, and so far +as Bethany. There He stopped, and lifted up His hands, and blessed +them. And it came to pass, that while He blessed them, He was taken +from them, and carried up into heaven, and sat down on the right hand +of God. As the disciples looked up earnestly towards heaven after +Jesus, two angels in white robes came and stood by them, and said, 'YE +MEN OF GALILEE, WHY DO YOU STAND LOOKING INTO HEAVEN? THIS SAME JESUS +WHICH IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN SHALL COME AGAIN IN THE SAME WAY +AS YOU HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN.' +</P> + +<P> +Yes, dear children, Jesus is coming again some day. He will not come +as a little baby next time. He will come as a King, to cast out Satan, +to judge the world, and to take away all who love Him to be with Him +forever. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap13"></A> +<H3> +"SAVIOR, LIKE A SHEPHERD, LEAD US." +</H3> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +Savior, like a shepherd, lead us,<BR> + Much we need Thy tend'rest care,<BR> +In Thy pleasant pastures feed us,<BR> + For our use Thy folds prepare.<BR> +Blessed Jesus, Blessed Jesus,<BR> + Thou hast bought us, Thine we are.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +We are Thine, do Thou befriend us,<BR> + Be the Guardian of our way;<BR> +Keep Thy flock, from sin defend us,<BR> + Seek us when we go astray.<BR> +Blessed Jesus, Blessed Jesus,<BR> + Hear, O hear us, when we pray.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +Thou hast promised to receive us,<BR> + Poor and sinful though we be;<BR> +Thou hast mercy to relieve us,<BR> + Grace to cleanse, and power to free.<BR> +Blessed Jesus, Blessed Jesus,<BR> + We will early turn to Thee.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR> + +<H3> +"ONE THERE IS ABOVE ALL OTHERS." +</H3> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +One there is, above all others,<BR> + Well deserves the name of Friend;<BR> +His is love beyond a brother's,<BR> + Costly, free, and knows no end.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +Which of all our friends, to save us,<BR> + Could or would have shed his blood?<BR> +But our Jesus died to have us<BR> + Reconciled in him to God.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +When he lived on earth abaséd,<BR> + Friend of sinners was his name;<BR> +Now above all glory raiséd,<BR> + He rejoices in the same.<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +Oh, for grace our hearts to soften!<BR> + Teach us, Lord, at length, to love;<BR> +We, alas! forget too often<BR> + What a friend we have above.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE LORD'S PRAYER +</H3> + +<P> +Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom +come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day +our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. +And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is +the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. +</P> + +<BR><BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +PSALM XXIII +</H3> + +<P> +1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. +</P> + +<P> +2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the +still waters. +</P> + +<P> +3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for +his name's sake. +</P> + +<P> +4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will +fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort +me. +</P> + +<P> +5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: +thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. +</P> + +<P> +6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: +and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Good Shepherd, by Anonymous + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOOD SHEPHERD *** + +***** This file should be named 18558-h.htm or 18558-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/5/18558/ + +Produced by Al Haines + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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