The Words and Works of Our Blessed Lord and Their Lessons for Daily Life, by the Author of 'Brampton Rectory'. - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... SECTION XXXIX. THE LAST JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM REQUEST OF THE SONS OF ZEBEDEE. Matthew xix. 17--18; Mark X. 32--45; Luke xviii. 31--34. "A ND Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the-£x twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, 'Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles, to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify Him: and the third day He shall rise again.'" How long our Lord stayed in the town of Ephraim, "we are not told, but it could scarcely have been long--perhaps not more than a week or two. The passover was now very near, the time so often seen afar off was at last come, and He set out on his last journey to Jerusalem. When He left Galilee, He had warned His disciples of what they had to expect for Him; but, perhaps, the frequent escapes, delays, respites, which had hitherto put off the threatened evil had generated in them a certain security, a sort of trust that after all they should be spared the realization of their fears. We know ourselves how our minds struggle against admitting a painful truth, and catch at any gleam of hope, however opposed to sober judgment. But now our Lord announces to them in the mo3t explicit terms, with every detail of circumstance, the events which were about to happen. St. Mark tells us what was the state of their minds; "they were amazed"--it was all incomprehensible to them--and "as they followed they were afraid," a kind of indefinable dread took possession of them. St. Luke adds that " they understood none of these things; and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken." They had a fixed idea in their minds; that of the earth...
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