A Life of St. John for the Young

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nations of the earth,-not the Jews only-should be made happy with special blessings. Isaiah and other p

t "upon the throne of David," ruling first over the Jews, an earthly ruler such as David had

pised, rejected and slain, though God had commanded lambs to be slain through all those centuries to remind them of the coming Messiah's cruel death. Each of those lambs was a "Lamb of God." Remember that phrase; we shall meet it again. They looked for wonders of kinds

are writing, the Jews had not only the great expectation of the

" was glorious only for what it had been. Galilee was a Roman province which, like those of Jud?a and Samaria, longed for the expected One to free them from the Ro

roused the whole Jewish nation. Multitudes welcomed him as the promised Messiah. Thousands gathered around him; many of them fishermen, shepherds, vine-dressers and craftsmen of Galilee

d in battle. The whole region was one of mourning for the dead. There was terrible disappointment concerning Judas of Galilee. None could say of him, "We have foun

ugh to be young patriots interested in their nation. Their sympathies would be with those trying to free their people from Roman pow

temperament which he afterward showed, and which sometimes misled him, allows us to think that he might have been drawn into the rebellion. Peter also in his fiery zeal might have drawn his mistaken sword. They might h

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