When the King came; stories from the four Gospels (1904) (14763369645)

Identifier: whenkingcamestor00hodg (find matches) Title: When the King came; stories from the four Gospels Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Hodges, George, 1856-1919 Subjects: Jesus Christ Bible Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin and company Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ME phasis, striking one hand upon the other, This is the Christ. But Third Citizen rebukes them, crying, He hath a devil and is mad; why hear ye him? To which First Citizen and Second Citizen indeed reply, These are not the words of him that hatha devil; but they do not speak with much assurance, and by and by, at the urging of the authorities, all these citizens begin to look about in the road for stones to throw at him. There were two parties in the state and in the church. Those who belonged to one party were called Sadducees; those who belonged to the other were called Pharisees. The priests of the temple and most of the officers of government were Sadducees; the ministers of the synagogues were Pharisees. The Sadducees carried on elaborate services; the Pharisees cared more for sermons. The Sadducees were a small party, confined almost entirely to Jerusalem; the Pharisees included in their party most of the good, earnest, religious people of the nation. It was the Pharisees who hated our Lord Text Appearing After Image: JESUS WITH MARY AND MARTHA AT BETHANY WHAT A BLIND MAN SAW 213 because he disregarded their customs. The Sadducees hated him because they were afraid that he would stir up a revolution. The Romans will come, they said, and take awa your place and nation. One day the two parties united in sending the police to arrest our Lord, intending to shut him up in jail. But the officers came back empty-handed. Why have ye not brought him? cried the Sadducees and Pharisees. The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. They had stood in the crowd, listening- to him. 7 O From these visits, as I said, our Lord returned to the lands where there were no Jews, or very few. One day he was in the city of Bethsaida. This was not the fishing town o where some of the Twelve had lived, but a place at the head of the lake, mostly inhabited by Romans. There the signs in the shop windows were in Latin, and even the smallest boys and girls spoke Latin as they played together in the street. Our Lord was walking Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.