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"constitution of the kingdom of Heaven," as 

 it has been called, is best known as the Sermon 

 on the Mount, and it contains all those princi- 

 ples which, while distinctly at variance with 

 the standards of righteousness of the day in 

 which Jesus lived, have been generally ac- 

 cepted as the essence of morality even by those 

 who deny the divinity of Jesus. 



Another ''turning point" is to be found in 

 connection with the woman who anointed His 

 feet with the precious ointment, for it was at 

 this time that Jesus claimed the right to for- 

 give sin and so further enraged the Pharisees, 

 already opposed to His teachings. Many mira- 

 cles He performed, too, on various tours 

 through Galilee, and these often resulted in 

 discussions wherein Jesus pointed out the 

 worthlessness of that righteousness which con- 

 sisted merely in forms and ceremonies. And 

 what was more, He gave to His disciples, whom 

 He sent out on preaching tours, the power to 

 work the same wonders at which they had 

 marveled in Him. 



Separating all that goes before from all that 

 follows stands Jesus' declaration to His disci- 

 ples that He must -"suffer many things * * * 

 * * * and be killed." They did not under- 

 stand it entirely, but He never ceased to feel 

 its influence, and from that time, as Luke says, 

 "He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusa- 

 lem." The journey was a slow one, and 'in- 

 cluded stops at more than one city, but Jesus 

 never lost the consciousness that He was going 

 toward His death. 



The Last Months. These were of peculiar 

 importance in the work of Jesus, and included 

 such great events as the Transfiguration, such 

 miracles as the healing of the man born blind 

 and the raising of Lazarus, and many of His 

 most significant discourses and parables. It 

 must be kept in mind as a significant fact that 

 Jesus was almost everywhere very popular with 

 the common people, though these misunder- 

 stood His mission and believed that He was 

 going to lead a revolution against Rome and 

 bring back the glorious days of the Hebrew 

 kingdom. It was the leaders who hated and 

 feared Him, and who had determined on His 

 downfall, and toward that downfall Jesus was 

 hastening. 



Passion Week. Interest centers in this last 

 week of the life of Jesus, which began with 

 that triumphal entry into Jerusalem which 

 testified to the favor, enthusiastic if superficial, 

 which He had gained in the eyes of the people. 

 During the following days He spent some time 



in the city, cleansing the Temple for the sec- 

 ond time, but long hours wese spent in retire- 

 ment at Bethany. Thursday night He observed 

 the Passover with His disciples, establishing 

 the Lord's Supper as a memorial of Himself, 

 and shortly was arrested in the Garden of 

 Gethsemane by the chief priests and Pharisees, 

 to whom He had been betrayed by Judas, one 

 of His disciples. He was examined by the ex- 

 high priest Annas, given a sort of trial by the 

 Sanhedrin (which see), taken before Caiaphas, 

 the high priest, and finally turned over to Pon- 

 tius Pilate, the Roman governor of Jerusalem, 

 for only the governor could make legal the 

 sentence of death which the Sanhedrin had 

 passed against Him. 



Convinced of the innocence of Jesus, Pilate 

 yet allowed the clamors of the Jews, who had 

 turned against their former favorite because He 

 had not reestablished the kingdom, to influence 

 him so far that He gave Jesus over for cruci- 

 fixion. On a hill outside the city He was 

 crucified, with a criminal on each side, and 

 after His death His body was taken from the 

 Cross and buried by Joseph of Arimathaea and 

 Nicodemus. The disciples and those women 

 who had remained true to Jesus, felt that the 

 end of all things had come that their hopes 

 had proved vain; but when on the morning 

 of the first day of the week some of the 

 women visited the tomb they found that the 

 stone had been rolled from the door and that 

 the body of Jesus was no longer there. 



For forty days after His resurrection Jesus 

 remained on earth, holding frequent inter- 

 course with His apostles and other followers; 

 and finally they were permitted to see Him 

 received up into heaven. Jesus had in no sense 

 organized the Christian Church, for even the 

 formal preaching of His gospel did not begin 

 until after the memorable day of Pentecost 

 (which see). A.MCC 



Consult Case's Historicity of Jesus; 

 weather's Background of the Gospels; Mathe 

 Messianic Hope in the New Testament; Geil 

 Short Life of Christ (for young people). 



JET. Near Whitby in Yorkshire, Englai 

 a variety of coal is found that is so hard that 

 it can be carved into almost any form and 

 polished so highly that it resembles black glass., 

 This substance is generally known as jet. It 

 is also found in various places in Germany, 

 France and Spain. Jet is used for making, 

 buttons and dress ornaments. It was known 

 to the Greeks and the Romans, and the former 

 used powdered jet for toothache. 



