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The herren fig tree cursed, 554.-Trouble in the narrative. 535.—A great lesson, 556.—A grand truth,
-The second cleansing of the Temple, 557.-Fine discriminations, 558.-An act of mercy,

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Buc. 1. THE SUPPER. Jesus's opening speech, 616.-Washes their feet, 617.-Peter's refusal, 617.—

The lesson, 618.-Sad prediction, 619.-Self-inspection, 619.-Judas leaves, 620).-Peter puzzled,

620.-Consoling words, 622.-Philip's materialism, 623.-Thaddeus perplexed, 624.

Sec. 2. THE VALEDICTORY AND LAST PRAYER. The Hallel, 624.-An out door discourse, 625.—

A pause, 626.-Disciples express belief, 627.-The last prayer with the disciples, 627,

Sec. 3. GETHSEMANE. The Kedron valley, 628.-In the garden, 630.-Solitary prayer, 60. —A horror,

6.0.-The sweat of blood, 631.-The betrayal, 631.-Jewish criminal law, 6.2.-Prejudgment, 633

-Irregularities, 633.-The signal, 634.-The arrest, 64.-Peter's zeal, 65.-Forsaken, 6.5.

Sec. 4. THE TRIAL, 626. Fresh outrage, 656.-Annas, 636.-Caiaphas, 637.-Reply of Jesus, 638.—

Peter, 638.-His denials, 637-640.-Daybreak. 641.-False witnesses, 641.-Jesus put on oath, 642

-The judge in a rage, 643.-Intense excitement, 644.

Sec. 5. PILATE. The Procurator, 644.-The jus gladii, 644.-To Pilate, 645.-Play of passions, 645

-A halt, 646.-Change of ground, 647.-In the prætorium, 648.-Jesus replies to Pilate, 649.—

A contrast, 650.

Sec. 6. HEROD. Herod and Jesus, 650.-Herod and Pilate, 651.-Jesus sent to Herod, 651.-Jesus

speechless, 652.

Sec. 7. BACK TO PILATE. Pilate and the Sanhedrim, 652.-The people against Jesus, 653.- Barabbas,

654.-Pilate's wife's dream, 654.-The unstable people, 655.-Pilate washes his hands, 656.- Jesus

scourged and mocked, 656.-Pilate in trouble, 657.- Ecce Homo!" 657.-Pilate seeks to release
Jesus, 658.-" Caesar's Friend," 659.-A dying nationality, 660.-The sentence, €60,

Sec. 8. THE LAST OF JUDAS. His hopes and fears, 660.-The ground gives way, 661.-He returns to

the priests, 661.-They regard him a fool, 662.-He flings the money away, 662.-Potter's Field, 663.

Sec. 9. GOING TO CALVARY. Bearing the cross, 663.-The Cyrenian, 663.-Form of the cross, 664.--

Daughters of Jerusalem, 664.-Jesus prophesies, 665.-Golgotha, 665.-The sour wine, 666.

Sec. 10. FROM NINE O'CLOCK TILL NOON. Jesus prays for his tormentors, 667.-The seamless gar-

ment, 667.-The epigraph, 668.-Cæsar's verdict, 668-Jesus reviled, 669.-The impenitent thief,

669.-The penitent thief, 670.-Jesus accepts him, 671.-Near noon, 671.-His mother, 672.

Sec. 11. FROM NOON UNTIL THREE O'CLOCK. Noon and darkness, 673.-The cry, 674.-A mys-

tery, 674.-The light returns, 675.-Jesus thirsts and dies, 676.-An earthquake, 676.-The cen-

turion, 676.

Sec. 12. FROM THREE O'CLOCK UNTIL EVENING. A ritualistic difficulty, 677.-The thieves killed, 678.

-The spear-thrust, 678.--Physical causes of death of Jesus, 679-What was his agony ? 653,—

Joseph and Nicodemus, 684.-Secret disciples, 684.—In a garden, 685.—Love's last vigil, 685.

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WHO WAS JESUS?

PART I.

THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS

FROM B.C. 6 TO A.D. 8-ABOUT THIRTEEN YEARS AND A HALF.

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY EVENTS.

Luke L

In the reign of Herod the Great, in Judca, lived Zacharias and Elizabeth. They were of priestly descent and of great age, were childless and without hope of children. Their ives had been blameless. Their family, their employment, and their character gave them an air of sanctity. Zacharias was of the course of Abia, being the eighth of the twenty-four courses established by David. (1 Chron. xxiv. 10.) One day, in the order of his course, according to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of Jehovah. While engaged in this solemn act, he beheld an apparition standing on the right side of the altar of incense. The sight troubled Zacharias. Luke says it was an angel, and that Zacharias was told by the angel that his name was Gabriel. This is the name of the man whom Daniel had

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