said that he had kept these, from his youth up, and asked what more he must do. Jesus said to him, "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." But the young man, who was rich, could not prevail upon himself to part with his riches, and he went away sorrowfully. Then Jesus exclaimed to his disciples,

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Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven." And again, "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

On their way to Jerusalem, Jesus told the twelve what would happen to him: that he should be betrayed to the chief priests and the scribes, and be condemned to death: and that they should deliver him to the Gentiles, who would mock and Scourge and crucify him, and that on the third day after his death, he should rise again.

When they had come to the Mount of Olives, at Bethphage close upon Jerusalem, Jesus sent two of the disciples into the village, telling them that at a certain spot they would find an ass and its colt:

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he said, "Loose them, and bring them to me." His disciples brought them and put some of their clothes upon them, and then seated Jesus: Then the people spread their garments in the way, and many came to meet him, bearing palm branches in their hands, rejoicing and praising God, for the mighty works which they had seen: saying, "Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: Peace in heaven and glory in the highest." Thus was fulfilled the saying of the prophet: "Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek and sitting on an ass."

Then Jesus looked upon the city, and foreseeing the destruction which was soon to come upon it, he wept and said, “If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thy eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in, on every side : And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee: and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."

Then Jesus went to the temple, "and cast out them that bought and sold in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves." He said, "Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations, the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves."

Here is a striking proof of the extent to which the things of this world were preferred to those of God. We find merchants and traders of all kinds setting up their stalls in the very temple of God, in the very presence of his priests. These same priests, too, were the very first to cry out against Jesus, when he had the noble courage to drive them out and to clear the House of God of such profanation. "The scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him."

From this time, the Pharisees and Sadducees (two sects of the Jews), as well as the scribes, did their utmost by insidious questions, to draw from Jesus something which would enable them to accuse him publicly. They were bent upon destroying him, and cared little how this should be accomplished.

Jesus taught daily in the temple, foretelling its

destruction and the endless calamities which were coming upon the Jews. He spoke to them of the great day on which he should come to judge the world, and bade them be always prepared for his coming; for, "of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." "Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is: for the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded his porter to watch. Watch Watch ye therefore, for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning lest coming suddenly, he find you sleeping and what I say unto you, I say unto all, Watch."

"Then assembled together the chief priests and the scribes and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; and consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty and kill him but they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar amongst the people."

We have now a most terrible instance of treachery

in one of the twelve apostles. Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and bargained with them to deliver Christ into their hands for thirty pieces of silver.

When Jesus and the twelve apostles were all met to eat the passover (the feast held in commemoration of the Lord's passing over, that is, sparing, the children of Israel when he smote the Egyptians), and after he had given them an example of humility by washing their feet, he said to them, "Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. me.” His disciples were very sorrowful when they heard this, an dwished to know which of them it could be, who should commit such a fearful act. They therefore made signs to his favourite disciple John to ask him who it was who should betray him. "Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom, one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved: Simon Peter therefore, beckoned to him that he should ask, who it should be of whom he spake He then lying on Jesus' breast, saith unto him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it: And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon."