Everywhere the people thronged in great crowds to see him and to hear him. The rich and the poor met in the crowd, the rulers and the common people, the Pharisees who were his enemies, and the publicans or tax-collectors who had been leading lives full of sin. There was a great desire among the people to listen to the Teacher and Prophet from Galilee, of whom they had heard so much, and whom they had not seen before. Many went to see him because they believed that he was the long-looked-for Christ, who was at last on his way to Jerusalem to sit on his throne and rule all the lands. So great were the crowds to see and hear Jesus that it is said that the thousands trod on each other around him. While he was speaking in one place to a great multitude of people, a voice was heard from the throng. "Teacher," cried out a man, "tell my brother to divide with me the property which belongs to our family." This man supposed that Jesus, being the King of Israel, would rule in all matters of difference between the people. But Jesus answered him: "Man, who made me a judge or a settler of disputes over your affairs?" Then he added, "Take care to avoid the love of money; for no matter how rich one may be, his true life does not depend on what he owns." [Illustration: Home of a rich man in Palestine] And he gave to them the parable or story of "The Poor Rich Man." He said: "There was once a rich man whose farm gave him very large crops. He began to ask himself, 'What am I to do? I have no room to store the grain and fruits that have grown on my land. This is what I will do. I will pull down my old barns and build larger ones in place of them. There I shall store all the fruits from my orchards and the grain from my fields. And then I will say to myself, "Now you have plenty of good things stored up to last for many years; take your ease, eat, drink and have a good time."' But God said to him 'Fool! this very night your life is taken away; and who will have all that you have stored up?' So is it with everyone who lays up money for himself, instead of gaining the riches of God." [Illustration: "Look at the lilies, and see how they grow"] And Jesus said again to his disciples some of the things that he had already taught them in his great "Sermon on the Mount"; for he often repeated the same teachings, over and over, until the disciples knew them by heart, so that after he should be taken from them, they in turn could tell them to others. At this time he said: