THE LAST JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM

THE SHADOW OF THE CROSS.

And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them:  and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid.  And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were to happen unto him, saying, “Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and all the things that are written by the prophets shall be accomplished unto the Son of man; and he shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles:  and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again.”

And they understood none of these things:  and this saying was hid from them:  and they perceived not the things that were said.

THE SONS OF THUNDER.

Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons James and John, worshipping him, and asking a certain thing of him.

And he said unto her, “What wouldest thou?”

She saith unto him, “Command that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom.”

But Jesus answered and said, “Ye know not what ye ask.  Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

And they said unto him, “We are able.”

And Jesus said unto them, “The cup that I drink ye shall drink; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:  but to sit on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared of my Father.”

And when the ten heard it, they began to be moved with indignation concerning James and John.

And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, “Ye know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.  But it is not so among you:  but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.  Even as the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

THE BLIND MAN OF JERICHO.

And they come to Jericho:  and as they went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the wayside, begging.  And hearing the multitude going by, he inquired what this meant, and they told him that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.  And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.”

And Jesus stood still, and said, “Call ye him.”