"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the men, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,

But Jesus, having discovered that they were intending to come and carry him off to make him King, retired again up the hill, quite alone.

Are you greater than our ancestor Abraham, who died? And the Prophets died too. Whom do you make yourself out to be?"

"It is not for any good action that we would stone you," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy; and because you, who are only a man, make yourself out to be God."

"Whoever loves me," Jesus answered, " will lay my Message to heart; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

Now we are sure that you know everything, and need not wait for any one to question you. This makes us believe that you did come from God."

This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the Jews shouted: "If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Any one who makes himself out to be a King is setting himself against the Emperor!"