burial. You will always have the poor among you and you can aid them at any time, but I will be with you only a short time. Wherever this Good News shall be told in all the world, this incident will be repeated and it will be a memorial of this woman."

CHAPTER EIGHT

TRIUMPHAL ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM AND LAST SUPPER.

N the morrow, which was the first day of the

week, as they passed through Bethany and Bethpage on the road over the Mount of Olives and drew near Jerusalem, Jesus sent two of his disciples ahead to the village across the valley. He said to them, "As you enter the village you will see a donkey colt that has not yet been used; untie him and bring him to me. If any one asks you why you do it, say to him, "The Master wants him,' and he will let you take him."

The disciples went ahead and found the donkey as Jesus had said. As they were untying him, the owner asked them what they were do

Matthew 21 1-11; Mark 11: 1-11; Luke 19: 29-44; John 12: 12-19.

ing. They said to him as Jesus had instructed them, and the owner was glad to let him go. When they brought the colt to Jesus, they placed their garments on him and Jesus mounted.

A rumor spread to Jerusalem that Jesus was coming to the Feast and a great multitude came out to meet him. When they saw him coming some spread their garments in the way, others broke off branches of the palm trees, and all those before and they that followed after cried out, "Hozanna, Hozanna in the Highest! Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord! Hozanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the Kingdom that is coming! Blessed is the Kingdom of our father David! Hozanna, Hozanna in the Highest!"

When the triumphal procession came to the highest point on the road over the Mount of Olives and the magnificent city of Jerusalem came into view across the Kedron Valley, they burst into renewed shouts of rejoicing and praises to God for all that they had seen and all

they expected would soon transpire. "Hozanna! Hozanna! Blessed is the King that comes in the

name of the Lord! Blessed is the King of Israel! May Heavenly Peace and Highest Glory be upon him! Hozanna in the Highest!"

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd nearest Jesus said to him, "You better restrain your disciples." But Jesus replied, "I tell you, if these men should be silent, the very stones would cry out."

As they drew near the city, Jesus could not hold back the tears. He said, "Oh Jerusalem! Jerusalem! If you could understand-and there is still time-the only thing that makes peace possible. But no, it is too late, it is hid from your eyes. The days are coming when your enemies will throw up earthworks and battlements about you, hemming you in on every side. They will destroy your city. They will not leave one stone upon another and even your children shall be slain. And all because you would not

understand that Sovereign Love was visiting you."

As he entered Jerusalem and passed into the temple, the city was profoundly stirred and expectant. Some asked, 'Who is he?' and the multitude answered, "It is the Galilean Prophet, Jesus of Nazareth."

As Jesus entered the temple he noticed the traders selling sheep, and oxen, and doves, and also the money changers. He made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple. He overturned the tables of the money changers and scattered their coin. He forbade any one carrying utensils through the temple. To them that sold doves and to all he said,"Take these things away; you must not make my Father's house a place of merchandise. It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.' You are making it a den of robbers."

Then he healed the blind and the lame that came to him and, as it was late, he quietly left the temple courts and returned to Bethany.