This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...pollution of it by birds sitting upon it." Beautiful Temple of God, but never so beautiful as when the Saviour stood within thy glorious courts, hallowing every spot by His holy presence. But turn from these visions of interest and beauty to another scene in the closing drama. While Jesus remains ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...pollution of it by birds sitting upon it." Beautiful Temple of God, but never so beautiful as when the Saviour stood within thy glorious courts, hallowing every spot by His holy presence. But turn from these visions of interest and beauty to another scene in the closing drama. While Jesus remains peacefully at Bethany, Judas matures and perfects his arrangements, and consummates a plan by which the Master is to be captured. It is hardly probable that he remained with the Saviour during the long hours of quiet, for how could he have endured the words of Christ--how could he, in the mild presence of the Lord, have nursed within his breast the resentment, and anger, and wickedness which led him eventually "to his own place." The Sanhedrin with whom he had covenanted was the Judicial and Decisive Body of the nation. It consisted of seventy members, and the High-Priest was generally president. If a tribe fell into idolatrous practices, or a false prophet, priest, or teacher appeared, this was the tribunal at which trial must be had. They sat in a semicircle, in a hall called Gazzith, and they were esteemed to be the most profound and wisest of the learned men in Jerusalem. Hence it was that Judas went to them for instructions, and hence it was that before them were arraigned our blessed Lord, and afterwards the apostles, who were accused of blasphemy and false teaching. How remarkable the contrasts in this day of silence! The serenity of Jesus--the bitter, tumultuous anger and hate of Judas. The calmness and beauty of the landscape which met the eye of the Saviour as He sat under the trees at Bethany--the dark, forbidding gloom of the hall where were gathered the wicked rulers of Jerusalem. The holiness, the humbleness, the...
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