With this last assault the Temptation was ended. Where the first Adam had fallen, the second Adam had triumphed, nor swerved for a moment from the path of strictest obedience to the will of His Father in Heaven. The Devil now left Him _for a season_ (Lk. iv. 13), or rather till a more convenient occasion for renewing his attempt, _and angels came and ministered unto Him_, who had already proved Himself “more than conqueror” over the crafts and assaults of the Wicked One. CHAPTER II. _CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES――THE MARRIAGE AT CANA._ A.D. 27. SUSTAINED by the ministries of these blessed spirits the Saviour returned towards the Jordan Valley, and drew near the ford of Bethabara or Bethany (Jn. i. 28). Here again He met the Baptist, who was still prosecuting his work, and baptizing the multitudes who flocked around him. Such was the effect produced by his preaching, that the rulers at Jerusalem determined to interpose, and the day before a formal deputation had waited upon him to enquire whether he was the Messiah, or Elias, or the prophet predicted by Moses (Jn. i. 21). Again he declared that he had no pretensions to such a dignity, that he was but the _Voice of one crying in the wilderness_, and preparing the way of the Messiah, of One infinitely mightier than himself, _the very latchet of whose shoe he was unworthy to unloose_. But now, lifting up his eyes, he beheld Him to whom he had borne such faithful testimony (Jn. i. 29), and addressing Him as _the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world_, repeated his solemn and assured conviction of His Divine nature (Jn. i. 30–34). Again, the day following, as he was standing in the company of two of His disciples, he beheld the Redeemer, and in their hearing pointed Him out under the same impressive title. On this occasion his words were not without their effect. The two disciples, one of whom was Andrew, a native of Bethsaida (Jn. i. 41), and the other, in all probability, the Evangelist St John, were so powerfully affected by them, that, drawn as it were by a powerful magnet, they left the Baptist and _followed Jesus_ (Jn. i. 37).