Outlines of New Testament History (Paperback)

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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...would have had Jesus silence His partisans. Instead of rebuking His disciples as requested by the Pharisees, Our Lord declared that this public proclamation of His Messianic dignity was so entirely in conformity with the divine designs, that "if these should hold their peace, the stones would cry out." When the triumphant procession entered Jerusalem the John lii. 17. t Luke xix. 37. whole city was moved; and the Pharisees in their impotent rage were reduced to say among themselves: "Do you see that we prevail nothing? behold the whole world is gone after Him " while the Saviour of the world was led to the Temple. There the procession dispersed, the Jewish customs not allowing the pilgrims to come near the sanctuary in travelling clothes and with dusty feet. It was late, and Our Lord simply visited the Temple, "viewing all things round about," as if He would observe whether all was done according to His Father's will, and then He returned to Bethany with the twelve to spend the night. 2. Monday.f The next morning Our Lord returned to Jerusalem, and on His way thither He saw at a distance by the wayside, a fig-tree which had an appearance of bearing fruit. He went to it, but finding nothing but leaves, He doomed the tree to perpetual barrenness in the hearing of His disciples.J In this action of Our Lord we cannot help recognizing a figure of the decay to which Israel was henceforth and forever doomed, because Jesus had found in the Jewish nation nothing but the appearances of righteousness. Entering the city He went to the Temple, the desecration of which He had noticed the evening before. The old abuses against which He had energetically protested at the beginning of His public life had crept in again--nay more, ...