that He wept when He saw Mary and the Jews weeping. And He said: "Where have ye laid him?" Jesus went to the grave full of grief. The grave was a cave in a rock, and was covered with a great stone. The Lord then told them to take the stone away; and He looked up to heaven, and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me. And I knew that Thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they may believe that Thou hast sent me." Jesus then cried with a loud voice, saying: "Lazarus, come forth." At the word of the Lord Jesus, Lazarus came to life, and walked out of the cave.

How wonderful to see a dead man brought to life by a word! We must remember that the Lord Jesus Christ was the Son of God; and that He will some day raise all the dead to life, as He raised Lazarus.

34. MARY ANOINTS THE SAVIOUR'S FEET.

SOME of the Jews who saw Lazarus raised to life believed Jesus Christ to be the Messiah; but some of them were so wicked as to go and tell the Pharisees what He had done; and they sought to kill Him. The Lord Jesus knew this, and He went to a place called Ephraim. Six days before the passover, He went again to Bethany. And they made Him a supper at the house of a man named Simon, who was a leper. Lazarus sat at the table; and Martha waited upon them. Then Mary took a box of precious ointment, and poured it over the feet of the holy Jesus, and wiped them with her hair. When the wicked Judas saw what Mary had done, he said: "Why was this waste of the ointment made? for it might have been sold for three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor." Judas

35. THE SOLEMN ENTRY OF THE LORD

JESUS CHRIST INTO JERUSALEM.

AFTER this, Jesus went towards Jerusalem. When He came to the Mount of Olives, He said to two of the disciples: "Go unto the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and

bring them unto me.

And if any man

say aught unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them." The disciples did as the Lord told them; and they brought the ass to Him. They then put their garments upon the ass, and set Jesus on it. In doing this our Lord fulfilled this prophecy, which had been spoken many hundreds of years before: "Tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy King com

eth unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

The blessed Jesus rode on towards Jerusalem; and a great many people, who had seen His miracles, went after Him. And they were so full of joy, that some of them spread their garments in the way - others climbed into the palm-trees, and cut off branches, to strew along the road. The whole multitude cried out, as they went along, "Hosanna to the Son of David! blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"

When the Lord Jesus came near to the city, He looked on it with pity, and wept, because He knew that it would soon be destroyed for its wickedness; and He said, "If thou hadst known, even thou, in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the