CHAPTER XVI. Jesus at the house of a Pharisee; Parable of the Sup- per; on counting the cost; the lost sheep; the lost Resurrection of Lazarus; healing of the withered Herod hears of Jesus, &c.; death of John the Baptist; Pharisees and Sadducees seek a sign; cure of the blind man at Bethsaida; Peter declares his belief that Jesus is the Christ; Jesus foretells his sufferings; Page. CHAPTER XXIII. Page. Jesus sets out for Jerusalem; ten lepers cleansed; Je- Certain Instructions and Parables of Jesus; the bar- ren fig-tree; cure of the infirm woman on the Sab- Jesus again foretells his death; ambition of James and Jesus at the house of Zaccheus ; Parable of Jesus at Bethany; supper at the house of Simon; Preparation for the Passover; Jesus washes his Disci- Jesus taken first to the house of Annas and then to the B MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST. CHAPTER I. Birth of John the Baptist - Birth of Jesus - Visit of the Wise Men - Flight into Egypt - Jesus converses with the Doctors in the Temple. Lk. 1. THERE was in the days of Herod, the king 5-23. of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia; and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. And they had no child, and they both were now well stricken in years. And it came to pass, that, while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course according to the custom of the priest's office his lot was to burn incense, when he went into the temple of the Lord; and the whole multitude of the people were praying without, at the time of incense. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. |