-An alarming speech, 453.-The great day of the feat. 454.-The fountain of Siloam, 454.-
They cannot arrest Jesus, 455.-In the treasury, 456.-The woman taken in adultery, 456.---
Cand in their own trap, 457.-Conflict of Jests with his enemies, 457.-Jesus more deeply in-
ares his enemies, 460.-Jesus charged with having a demon, 461.-His reply, 402.-Jesus before
Abraham, 402.
Near Jericho, 463,-Parable of the Good Samaritan, 464.-From Jerusalem to Jericho, 465.-Bethany:
Mary and Martha, 466.-Reply of Jesus to Martha, 467.—The blind man, 469.-Existence of evil,
4-The ancient pagan idea, 470.-The Hebrew idea, 470.- Who did sin?" 471.-What Jesus
th night of it, 472.-Manner of the healing, 473.-Healed on the Sabbath, 473.-The patient and
brents examined, 474.-Jesus meets him. 477.-Discourse of the shepherd and the sheep, 478.
-Division among his enemics, 479.-A challenge, 480.-Exalted claims, 480.
Bethany, cast of Jordan, 482.-Jesus visits the place of his baptism, 482.-The dropsical man, 484.—
Parable of the Great Supper, 485.--Terms of discipleship, 486.-Parable of the Lost Sheep, 487.-
O the Lost Coin, 48%.-Of the Prodigal Son, 457.-Of the Unjust Steward, 489.-Meaning of the
Parable, 480-Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, 491.-Prayers to saints, 493.-Of offences
arl forgiveness, 491.-A prayer for faith, 494.-Sickness and death of Lazarus, 495.-Devotion
of Thomas, 497.
Bethary, near Jerusalem, 498.-Jesus claims to be The Resurrection, 500.-Mary and Jesus, 501.—
Irief of Jesus, 502.-At the grave, 303.—Lazarus raised from the dead, 504.-The Sanhedrim,
5-Acknowledge his miracles, 565.-Reject him as Messiah, 506,-Caiaphas, 506.-His prophecy,
57-Ephron, 507-Ten lepers healed, 509.-The Parousia of the Son of Man, 511.-Parable of
the Unjust Judge, 512.--Its lesson. 513.-Despondency of Jesus, 514.--Parable of the Pharisee and
Ptican, 514.-Final departure from Galilee, 516.-Divorce, 516.-Mosaic law of divorce, 517.-
Ime law of divorce, 520.
Jest blesses little children, 523.-The rich ruler, 521.-- Who can be saved?" 527.-The Palingenesia,
5-Parable of the laborers, 528.-The lesson, 530-A third warning, 50.-The ambitions
brothers, 52.-The blind men, 53.-Blind Bartimaeus healed, 5.5.-Jericho, 586,-Zacchaens, 537.
His conversion, 558.-Parable of the pounds, 539.-Bethany: House of Lazarus, 541.—Crowds
fock to see Jesus, 542.-His last Sabbath, 542.
Palm Sunday, 543-Jesus riding, 541.-Great excitement, 515.-"The church" frightened, 516.-
In sight of Jerusalem, 517-Jesus apostrophizes Jerusalem, 548.-Entering the city and the
Temple, 548.-Greeks seek him, 519.-The Bath-Kol, 550.-What was it? 551.-Jesus knew it, 552.
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,
"ly what authority?" 561.-A counter-dilemma, 563.-Puzzled priests, 569.–Parable of the Two
Son, 564-Tarable of the Wicked Husbandmen, 564.-Parable of the Marriage of the King's Son,
563-Without the wedding-garment, 567.-Conspiracy, 568.-Attempt to ensnare Jesus, 569.-
5-Reply of Jesus, 574.-Jesus against Pantheism, 574.-The great commandment, 576.-The
An adroit question, 570.-The net torn, 571.-A profound lesson, 571.-Question by the Sadducees,
rep's of Jesus, 576.-David's and David's Lord, 578.-The valedictory to the Jews, 579,-Con-
trastel with the "Sermon on the Mount," 581.-Final woe, 587.-Last times, 587.-The heart of
Jesus melt 588.-The widow's mite, 589.-Last utterance of Jesus in the Temple, 589.-Parable
of the Ten Virgins, 593.-A prophecy, 594.-Jerusalem to be destroyed, 595.-Pseudo-Christs, 596.
-General judgment of mankind, 596.-Jesus the representative of humanity, 598.-Absence of
Disappointed hopes, 600.-Feast in Simon's house, 600.-Mary anoints Jesus, 600.—Judas objects, 601.
-Reply of Jesus, 601.-A meeting of conspirators, 602.-The capture postponed, 602.-Judas come
to them, 603.-The case of Judas, 603.-Fresh examination, 604-611.
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.
I. The Sabbath after crucifixion, 686.-The sepulchre guarded. 687.—Preparations for embalming,
687.-A vision in the sepulchre, 688.-A message to Peter, 688.—John and Peter, 6859.-Mary of
Magdala sees Jesus, 690,-Her obedience, 690.-The other women, 691.-The watch, 691.-The
Sanhedrim, 691.-The conspiracy, 692.-On the way to Emmans, 693.-Jesus reveals himself, 695.
-He appears to Peter, 696.-First assembly of the disciples, 697.-Jesus in their midst, 697.-The
Holy Spirit, 698.-Absolution, 698.-Thomas incredulous, 693.-The second assemblage, 700.
II. The Apostles in Galilee, 700.-Jesus by the lake, 701.-Peter's ordeal, 702.—à prediction, 703.—
John, 703.
III. Tabor, 704.-"Five hundred brethren at once," 704.-Jesus reappears, 705.-The commission,
705. The last recorded word, 705.-Jesus's concept of God, 706.—All restrictions removed, 706.
-A universal religion, 707.—A claim and a prediction, 707.-The fulfilment, 707.
IV. The Ascension, 709.
Chronology of the Birth of Jesus, 711.-Capernaum, 711.-Addition to note on page 189, 711.-
Slaves at Jubilee, 711.-Mary of Magdala, 712.-A translation explained, 712.-Discipline, 712.
The woman taken in adultery, 713.-Bethany Bethabara, 713.-Translation of Matt new xXİV.
10, 713.-Physical cause of the death of Jesus, 713.
THE BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF JESUS
FROM B.C. 6 TO A.D. 8-ABOUT THIRTEEN YEARS AND A HALF.
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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