the day upon which he had given them a command and sent them forth and the success which attended them, he said "When I sent you forth without purse and wallet and shoes, lacked ye anything?"" Remembering the glorious days of achievement and success, they said "Nothing." "But now," he said, "I bid you otherwise; he that hath a purse, let him take it, likewise a wallet, and he that hath neither purse nor wallet, let him sell his cloak and buy a sword. For I say to you that this which was written must be fulfilled in me: He was reckoned with transgressors'; and that which concerns me hath an end."

The disciples did not respond instantly to this new and strange attitude. They probably did not fully comprehend the meaning and purpose of what he said but a hurried inventory discovered that among them were already two swords which they showed to him.

But the wavering was only momentary. He had already recognized the futility of that course. "It is enough" he said. His disciples were scattered and unwarlike; beside, his original purpose reasserted itself. He must submit to the inevitable.

It was time to depart, but before they rose from the table, realizing the certainty and immediateness of the coming separation, he took bread and broke

'Luke 22:34-38.

"This quotation from Isaiah 53 (v. 12) indicates that this great chapter from the greatest of the Hebrew prophets was already deeply seated in his mind as the true answer to his problem. It is the key to his actions for the few remaining hours of his life.

it and gave to his companions and likewise wine, saying to them-"I shall no more drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I shall drink it new with you in the Kingdom of God.""" He was about to enter into his death as into the door of the coming Kingdom.

Across the quiet city, over the bridge which joined the city with the temple hill, over the two deep valleys and the intervening temple hill, followed by the faithful eleven, and perhaps by others, almost certainly by the young Mark, he went to the garden of the wine press," on the slope of the Mount of Olives.

10 Matthew, 26:26-29; Mark 14:22-25; Luke 22:17-20. Compare note 14 to Chapter IX. It is entirely reasonable to admit the possibility that among a group to whom the passover had the great place it held with all Jews, the confidence in their participation in a new kingdom in another world would express itself in a spontaneously developed ritualistic meal, symbolical of the repasts of which they should partake together in the coming Kingdom, which had continued among them from time to time for months before. To this possibility Matthew 26:29 adds enough to make it a probability. After Jesus' death and the reflection of his disciples upon it, especially after the development of the atonement theory of Paul, all of which had occurred before the earliest of our gospels was written, it was hardly possible to prevent the entry of the factors which changed the significance of the ritual.

"Matthew 26:30; Mark 14:26; Luke 22:39.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE ARREST AND THE INQUISITION.

Leaving all but three at the entrance, he took Peter, James, and John and went further into the garden, to gather his courage and confirm his determination for the ordeal which he knew was now near at hand.' The three companions, wearied with the strain of the past few days and with the lateness of the hour, speedily fell asleep, but Jesus himself remained alone in prayer and in wrestling with his own soul. Confronted with the immediate realization of the death for which he had long been prepared in purpose, even his tremendous will was not sufficient to prevent the physical revulsion against dissolution. Even his absolute confidence in the glory that lay beyond the grave could not prevent his shrinking from the experience which the whole physical nature of man is organized to avoid. He realized the necessity of his death and the tremendous consequences, not merely to himself, but to the whole world, which should follow upon it; nevertheless he prayed: "Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me." But through all the terrible experience, alone in the silence and darkness, he was able to maintain his great purpose unshaken.

'Mark 14:32-36; Matthew 26:36-39; Luke 22:39-42.

If it was in truth the will of God, he was submissive to it. “Not as I will, but as thou wilt, O my Father; if this cup cannot pass away except I drink it, thy will be done."

Meanwhile Judas had been prompt in carrying out his plan. The chief priests had immediately placed under his guidance a force sufficient to make sure of arresting the disturber. Accompanied by the police force left to the nation, the officers of the city and the temple guards, armed with swords and clubs, he was on the way across the valley of the Kidron. He carried with him the total authority of the nation, as represented by the orders of the chief priests and the elders of the people, in other words, of the Great Council.' They had no right to expect a large number to be with Jesus at this time, or any armed resistance whatever, nevertheless they took no risk and brought a large number to make certain of success. Even as Jesus was waking his sleeping companions this multitude of officers appeared in the garden, led directly to the spot by Judas.

Judas came in advance, the crowd of officers, however, following close behind. The plan contemplated the arrest of Jesus alone; evidently the Twelve had not been sufficiently prominent in the proceedings in the temple to arouse any special interest in them. The Jerusalem authorities were making the same mistake that Herod had made in the case of John the Baptizer; they assumed that if they arrest

'Mark 14:43-52; Matthew 26:47-56; Luke 22:47-53; John 18:1-11.

ed the leader, the crowd of enthusiasts would drift away and the whole incident be speedily forgotten. Just as in arresting John they left Jesus, so in arresting Jesus, they overlooked the men who took up his movement after him and led it into immensely greater proportions than anything that he personally developed. What would have occurred had they decided to take the Twelve also, what the future history of the world might have been, we cannot hazard a guess; certainly it would have been tremendously different.

Judas expected to find him surrounded by a small band of his followers, and to avoid the arrest of the wrong person in the indistinctness of the night, he had agreed with the officers upon a signal which should identify the man they were to take. The noise and the lights and the confusion of the crowd had by this time thoroughly aroused the little group. Unable to find them immediately, the officers proceeded to search the grounds. Concealment, if indeed intended, became impossible. As they approached the secluded place where Jesus and his three companions were, Jesus asked them "Whom seek ye?" "Jesus of Nazareth," they replied. Jesus knew that his time was come.

His hour of

depression and shrinking from his destiny was past. Confronted with the fact, his soul rose to the occasion. Stepping from the darkness out into the flickering light of the torches and lanterns, he said: "I am he." The majesty of the personal appearance of the man who suddenly presented him