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CHAPTER
GREATEST STORY
THE whole Temple-
T
court of the strangers, ̧ ́ court of the women, the inner court, even the high altar, the very sanctum sanctorum Itself. echoed with
the
full-throated
EVER TOLD
two hundred thousand and mare and the rabble love Him. clamour of His followers. The scum love Him. They might
The Templa scholars and easily revolt."
theologians kept after Him with Annas lifted his old arms in a crafty questions.
They
Joined one day with a
even mock helpless gesture.
shrewd "Joseph Caiphas", he barked, roup
of Herodians; working "what is it you want to do with
tried to upset this Jesus? ogether they Jesus by posing another dan-
I want to arrest Him-and gerous political and social ques- then summon the whole coun- tion: Should a a good Jew pay the cilp" Roman taxes? That was a real poser! For if Jesus said no, He would be guilty of treason If He said yes, all Palestine would be offended.
Jesus called for a penny and pointed to the image on the coin: the profile of Augustus Caesar.
Caesar the "Render unto
"On the eve
of the
feast?" utsasped Annas, as if his ears lied. "I want to arrest Him tonight, Lord Annas," Caiphas replied with a gaunt nearsighted look. "His influence has reached a we should not point where hesitate any longer.""
"Arrest Him! Summon the whole council! Nonsense!" bark- «l Annas, "The man thinks He in the Messiah? Well, what Gall- Jean does not? He's only another Messiah I do hope, my boy, you high priest too seriously,"
| things that are Chesar's”—and so with that astute answer, another trap failed.
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CONTINUING FULTON OURSLER'S STORY OF·
THE LIFE OF JESUS
"You have sold it," answered: Jesus Even then the Master could not keep the pity from His eyes. That which you do, do quickly."
As John wrote later, Judaa received the morsel of bread and gravy and then fled from
He paused and looked up the room; the door slammed
heavily behind him.
straight at Judas.
but not wholly," Ho
added, with a tigh,
Then He Eat at the tablo surrounded by tho twelve familiar faces,
"This Is My Body"
pUT when, Judza was gone, Jesus made no further re-
"With desire." Jesus told ference to him. Instead He them, "I have desired to eat took the broad, and broke it, this posch with you before I
suffer.
At such a tragle time, while
He made the words as em- oven. The mobs might rise up and rescue Him."
they were still a good long way phatic as He knew how, "We must raise our own from belog saints and while "For I am telling you that counter rabble!" decided Annas waiting for the Master to join from this time I will not eat it them they began arguing all it be fulfilled in the King- suddenly.
"Ono Shall Betray Me"
"To denounce Him?"
all among themselves
over dom of God" "Of course. For blasphemy! again about priority. In spite of And treason. The first to worry previous rebuken, they argued the poor plous fools of the Phar once more about which of them
The eccend to isces.
worry would be the greater,
which Pilate."
would be the closest assistant the future.
passing a piéce to each of the eleven, as He mid:
"Take you and eat. This is
body
My
They ate Then He filled with wine the chalice, one of the liturgical cupe of the paschal rito. gave thankə
And: now Jesus
and passed the
chalico of wine to the eleven,
saying:
For this is My blood of the new
"Drink you all of this.
"Lord Annas," exclaimed the to the Master, in the glory of speak not of you all when 1 testament which shall be shed
high priest, with a noisy exhala- tion of his breath, "you under- stand me at last!”
In the very midst of their squabbling He suddenly appear
ot
say you are clean now. I for many
unto remission know whom I have chosen, but, sins. Do this for a commemora- that the Scriptures may De tion of Me”......... fulfilled: 'Ho that ents bread
The old man's Bcom falied to you don't believe this Jesus Jesus did not admonish them in your noe of you that cats with THIS was the time' of the real
shake Calphas,
fore the Pasch: the celebra ilon
of the Feast of the Un- leavened Bread would begin at rundown in the fifth of April, A.D. 30.
Strangely, that fateful morn- ing when Jesus resumed His preaching in the Temple, there were no sples waiting to debate he said sternly. "One with ideas
A Different One
"I
HAVE to make you see that this is a different Messiah,"
takable action.
A Hesitant Annased, wrapped in a long blue with Me shall lift up his hand The Parting
cloak, at the doorway. This Ume to betray Μα prosent I tell befand it comes to pass, words, but in unmis that
parting between Jebus and has any real miraculous mere power of course? Any gifts out
Mo shall
shall betray Me"
those who loved ·Him In this learned scholars have not yet His garments laid aside, Ho These sudden and completely world. discovered?"
stood facing them with only a shocking words of the Master What He said to His faithfu
in the eleven, after that first COTA- "Why do you jest with me, towel wrapped around ilim. In resounded frighteningly Lord Animas?"
unbroken and bewildered dining room.
farewell, Their Inces hesi- quiet, Jesus poured water from "Something makes me
of mely
the
Wero
full
not
to them, but to Mary
with Him. As a matter of secret about the rich and the poor not tate to enter on this business. So A pitcher into a basin. Then He Dorrow as one after the other, and to Hi frienda in`-Bethany the high to my liking-nor to yours, Lord hurried an arrest—a trial under knelt at the foot of his strongest they asked Him the same ques and to all thos, bern and un-
fact, for pore days priest's agents had been paying increasing attention to the dia- ciples, rather than to their lead- er. Later one of these spies talk- ed confdentially to the high priest.
much
any man at least
Calplus
Was very pleased with himself. He had found one of the Twelve who would sell out. He had neVET known
who did not have
disloyal friend.
"We are almost ready." Cal- phas exclaimed. "There is only one more big hurdle. That's my father-in-law, Annas."
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Annas. He says the Gentiles are just as good as we are, an
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On the old man's firelit face there came and went a pucker ing twinge of malice.
"Quite mad, no doubti Quite madi" But his covert satire was lost.
conditions unprecedented in all and strangest disciple. our history.
"Poncel My practical good
"You Shall Know”
"But Lord sense tells me I am justified in ASTER," gasped Peter, do you wash my feet? Riot agreeing to your plans. It is only "MAST inside of me.... You have No! You must not!" mado definite plans, I suppose?**
that a
Lon;
"Is it IT** "Who is it?" shouted Peter, And John, who loved Jesus even at that Intenant leaning
meat leaning his head on the Master's bogor: the young di ciple gently echoed the fisher- man's volce
"Lord, who is 117"
Like Frozen Mon
born, who would love Him and
Jtis ways,
children" He
Keep te
told
them softly, "yet a little while I am with you. You shall sock
Whither I gume, so I
Me, and as I said to the Jews: cannot go, you my to you now. "A new commandment 1. givo that you love one unto you: another as I have loved you,
told
that you also love one another
Ho And, as often before,
"I don't have to tell you that Twenty-two feet He washed; "Jesus is against our
practical and legal dimeul- at inst He came to Judas, entire the economic system and intends to
ties were enough to discou
Some in the room had al- myself. destroy it. He denounces the
even man of action like
strange scla rich. Ho
class against Getting the court to agree to as- ready noticed
fallen on the tren- class. Already members of our sombie in the dead of night-and mood had
reach bread dipped." of Him, but now His forecast joining His group. They Sadducean families are actually to keep their clacking tongues surer and keeper of the bag; it "H" to whom I shall
¡E. Judna are quiet beforehand that in itself was as
was looking Jesus answered. "He that dips of this odious act was not in the dire vision, visible his hand with Me in the dich, indeterminate future-bilt traitors to their class."
was no simple task. Arranging upon some for witnessos le
not proving to only to him.
his celt-this i news!" muttLAS
ed AnnaM.
Sanhedrin
could said: death [i]-
"I know, Lord. We leave Pilate to you. You are the one man in Juden who knows how to handle him."
he shall betray Me."
They were like frozen men,
dipped a morsel of bread in the
and gravy and dish of lamb then very quietly held it out toward Judas..
The voice of the treasurer trembled as he croaked:
"Is it I. Master?"
them, they would be ashamed
night
In-
And now Ho made to Peter
rock on Here was Peter, the which Christ would build the church; Poter, to whom Jerus now suid:
"I may to them, Peter; the cock. shall not crow this day till thou (Continued on Page 5)
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The wrinkles deepened on the Anna was now a very old dried-apple face of Annas.
be easy, either, let me tell you." Jesus got up, carried His unable to more, as the Master mast extraordinary statement "He talks to the people and
and knelt at Judas. al boss of Jerusalem. Of
"But what about ratification?" basin the after He goes away they begin to sixty families in the Templo aris- ask questions," Caiphas contin- interrupted Annas. They both As He methodically washed the perfectly well that treasurer's long, thin feet, He tocracy, his was the richest and ued, "Such as why the poor do knew
For
the same civil and while not have the years the most powerful,
the pronounce Annas had served his people as political rights as the rich. Why
"He that is washed needs but high priest. When he felt he had our Sadduccan families have go fence, before it could be carried to wash his feet but is clean
post long enough, he much to eat and the others so out Pilate, the Procurator, had wholly. And you are clean held the
to agree to it. "Can you secure passed on the fringed blue robe little. He tells them all men are
Pilate's approval, of the death and stately headdress
In the sight of God." eldest son, and then, in turn, to
sentence in time? You must kill this man before the crowds find alx of his other sons. Now that his own seed was used up, his "Why, Lord Annas, Jesus out what you are doing! If you son-in-law, Calphas
the making got
it so that any man in don't Job-ho was the visible authori Jerusalem with two pairs of ty, under the God of Abraham, sandals begins to feel ashamed of Isane and of Jacob, but he of himself when he passes a was also privately under the barefoot beggar." firm governance of Lord Father- "Why was I in-Law!
before?"
You have been away for two
Berides, we waited until we were ready to matter before lay the whole you." Calphas explained hurried
y. "But not all the Sanhedrin has been idle. We allowed the scribes and the Pharisees to bicker and debate with Him, but we of what some insist on calling the op Caiphas group were always the watch to catch Him."
"In what crime?" "Blasphemy--and, if possible, in treason."
"He Will Ruin Us"
I'
was a dark spring evening, Thursday, the seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord 30, when Calphos sald to Annas: "I think the fate of this nation
do to may hinge on what we night."
can
months.
not told of this
Deadly Strategy
An Informer E flattery was not lost. The face of the withered le
"So," man Bushed.
he sighed benignly, "you set out to save the nation and wind up by asking me to save you from your folly. Very well, since it is necessary I will do it. Send out and arrest Jesus!" The high priest lifted his large soft hands.
"Sozzy Lord Annas. We don't know where to And Him tonight. Ho constantly eludes our sples, as if He were a sorcerer. But if You will outside, there is a man
"An Informer?"
"One of His own men. Ho will talk only to you."
"Do we really need him?"
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"The nation has withstood many other nights. Are we at the crossroads again?" jeered
hated Annas, who
rhetoric. "Why tonight?”
"Because unless we settle this fellow Jesus He will ruin us all.”
Annia meczod, "How can I
NNAS'S slow smile possibly be ruined by a way- side tramp?"
shrewd and a little tragic. He understood the deadly strategy. "Just
consider, Lord Anna, The old political boss was not what He has been able to do in bloodthirsty man, but he was
the 45,000-ton carrier Our whole three short years.
beginning to suspect that per-
"Those who could tell usHE United States navy re- and long-range direction Anders, from world here about, I tell you, is
three can
of enemy dispose completed
sub- Franklin D. Roosevelt, kept was not where Ho hides for the nightcently filled with lying reports that He haps his son-in-law
alarmed without cause.
Di foul-weather all seem to be His friends," an-weeks
war marines much more easily than his aircraft on dock.
Ho said that in wartime, how- is a prophet, and that He
exas-exercises beyond the Arctic during the last war, and under "You have not heard what swered Calphas, with an perform miracles."
which would then ever, the aeroplanes would have "Don't
they know miracles happened in the Temple," pur perated alt, "Only this one man Circle. Most of what was learned conditions
to play his seems to be amenable.
by the ships' on't happen any more?" Annas sued Caiphas, ready
Long-range pátrols But one impossible. miffed again
winning card. "Did you know
make important lesson has been re- The Task Force mado a 7,000- "They believe," pursued Cal- that this harmless Gaillean fan- sometimes necessary to
worst con- Even during the stay-down
from the
Norfolk. sub mile journey phas, parting his beard, "that atic, as you called Him, entered use of traitors, but they always vealed:
to the Davis Strait ditions, long-range patrol, air- the turn the taste of a decent man's
Virginia, Jesus drives out devils, makes the Temple, kicked over
marines, which the Germans
(between Bahn Island and craft, equipped with bombs. stole from the Dutch and the crooked legs straight, gives sight tables of our honey-changers, spittle Send in your man.'
And Joseph Calphas called Russians developed in large Greenland), during which they made extensive fights over the to blind eyes, and even brings and drove our dealers out with
numbers, are not as deadly as continually beat off attacks by sea. a whip?"
One hundred and five war- the dead back to life."
"You
submarine packs. had been believed. may come "And I still want to know why
and Judas Iscariot."
Whenever there is enough Forces of hunter-killer ships ships and supply vessels
took part in the open water and sky for aircraft were active around light air- 43,000 men carriers to operate, these sub-, craft-carriers, such as the 27,000 axercises. Many of them, who had never before been north, marines can be hunted down ton Philippine Sea and and sunk with relative case. smaller Siboney.
"Attacking our dealers?" An- do you bother me with such nas was instantly scandalised. nonsense, Joseph Calphos?"
"He said, 'Make not My "Last Sunday, the fenth Father's house place of mer- Nisan, while you were away, He chandise." rode into Jerusalem, with twelve "His father's home?
of His followers trailing behind Him. He was seated on a Baby- lonian ass As if, by our tradi- tions, He considered Himself a king, a judge or a prophet. How do you like that?"
Arrest Him?
scourged our changers!"
And le
"Did I not say so?" "And people are listening to this man, you say?"
"Well," sigħod Annas, "it is took part is a panics who have' been considered virtually flown.
softly:
in, now
The Upper Room
T sundown of that same day A thirteen
men met celebrate the Passover in,
upper room Mount Zion.
to
the
As result of the manœuvres, These killero scoured the sea
found the manoeuvres to be a nightmare of rough seas and ley winds,
an the Navy are confident that any ahead of the main fleet by day Three men were washed over-
board from one
Of
a house on evilly-disposed Power attempt and night, forcing submarines In
ship near the submerged most
Circle.
they Though ing a submarine onslaught in to remain
"sinking them Arctic "They greeted Him with palms
were rescued within minutes, In spite of the warnings Jesus the Atlantic and Arctic sea lanes the time, and last Sunday and called hosan- nahs to Him. There is not one of had given the Twelve, none of in any future war is in for a when they surfaced.
Only when exceptionally high two died of exposure,
Two other men were injured seas, strong winds and
poor by being flung against obstruc- the inns in Jerusalem tonight them realised, or was willing to shock,
Easier now
visibility prevailed did the sub- where they do not debate if He believe, that this would be their the last meal together. They were
marines do effective work, dons during rough weather.
submarine Trask 66 XX/HY don't you order the is or is not the Messiah
still too earthbound and too
Ships of the 2nd Task Force because conditions were un rammed by a supply ship during arrested then
Christ!" and there? Annas asked queru- "When the feast is over, then worldly to grasp, as they would
the great
historical found that radar-guided aircraft, favourable for carrier lourly.
we shall go after Him, Caiphas." later,
with tions, and Vice-admiral D. B. storm in conjunction "Lord Annas, we can't wait realities of the drama in which used
specially equipped destroyers Duncan, commander of the fleet and Jerusalem is full of pilgrims that long-not another day, they were actors.
"WHY
man
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