CONTENTS. PAGE I. THE MAN WITH THE SCOURGE 9 II. THE UPBRINGING 21 III. EARLIER TEACHING. SERMON IN THE SYNAGOGUE OF THE 37 GALILÆANS IV. THE TWO WAYS 55 V. THE WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY. THE RICH YOUNG MAN 63 VI. THE TESTINGS IN THE TEMPLE 75 VII. THE SECOND SERMON 87 VIII. THE REBUKING OF JESUS 99 IX. JESUS IN THE TEMPLE 111 X. THE ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM 121 XI. THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE 133 XII. THE WOES 145 XIII. THE GREAT REFUSAL 155 XIV. THE MEETING OF THE HANANITES 167 XV. THE EXAMINATION BEFORE THE SANHEDRIM 181 XVI. CONDEMNATION AND EXECUTION 195 EPILOGUE 207 I. THE MAN WITH THE SCOURGE. I was crossing one morning the Xystus Bridge on my way to the Temple, when I saw issuing from the nearest gate a herd of beasts of sacrifice. Fearing that something untoward had occurred, I hurried to the gate, and when I entered the Court of the Gentiles, I found all in confusion. The tables of the money‐changers had been overturned, and the men were gathering their moneys from the ground. And in the midst I saw one with a scourge in his hand. His face was full of wrath and scorn, his eyes blazed, and on his left temple stood out a vein all blue, throbbing with his passion. He was neither short nor tall, but of sturdy figure, and clad in rustic garb. Now, as the money‐changers were escaping from his wrath, one of them ran against a little child that was in the court, and it fell screaming. The fellow took no heed, but went on his course. But the man with the scourge went to the little child and raised it to its feet, and pressed it to his side; the hand that rested on the curly head was that of a workman, with broken nails, and yet the fingers twitched with the excitement of the man. But, looking to his face, I saw that a wonderful change had come over it. From rage, it had turned to pity and love; the eyes that had flashed scorn on the money‐changers now looked down with tenderness on the little child. I remember thinking to myself, “This man cannot say the thing that is not; his face bewrayeth him.”