death He had prophesied the ruin of the Temple and of the city and the
signs of His return, and where, in the darkness of night and of anguish,
Satan, before his final defeat, had left Him wet with sweat and blood.
It was one of the last evenings of May and the clouds in that golden
hour, like golden celestial islands in the gold of the setting sun,
seemed to rise from the warm earth towards near-by Heaven, like incense
from great fragrant offerings. In the fields of grain, the birds began
to call back the fledglings to the nests, and the cool breeze lightly
shook the branches and their drooping, unripened fruit. From the distant
city, still inact, from the pinnacles, the towers and the white squares
of the Temple rose a smoky cloud of dust.
And once again the Disciples asked Jesus the question which they had put
to Him in the same place on the evening of the two prophecies. Now that
He had come back as He had promised, what else were they to await?
“Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”
They may have meant the Kingdom of God, which in their minds, as in the
minds of the Prophets, was one with the Kingdom of Israel, since the
divine restoration of the earth was to begin with Judea.
Christ answered: “It is not for you to know the times or the season,
which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses
unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto
the uttermost parts of the earth.”
And having said this, He lifted up His hands and blessed them. And while
they beheld, He was taken up from the earth and suddenly a shining cloud
as on the morning of the Transfiguration wrapped Him about and hid Him
from their sight. But they could not look away from the sky and
continued to gaze steadfastly up in their astonishment, when two men in
white apparel spoke to them: “Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up
into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.”
Then having prayed in silence, they returned to Jerusalem, glowing with
melancholy joy, thinking of the day just begun: the first day of a task
which, after two thousand years, is not yet accomplished. They were
alone now, alone against that innumerable enemy called the World. But
Heaven is not so cut off from the earth as before the coming of Christ;
the mystic ladder of Jacob is no longer a lonely man’s dream, but is set
up on the earth, on this earth which we tread, and above there is an
Intercessor who does not forget the ephemeral beings destined to eternal
life who, for a time, were His brothers. “Lo, I am with you alway, even
unto the end of the world” had been one of His last promises and the
greatest. He had ascended into Heaven, but Heaven was no longer merely
the barren dome where swift, tumultuous storm-clouds appear and
disappear; where the stars shine out silently, like the souls of saints.
He is still with us, the Son of Man, who to be nearer Heaven ascended
mountains, who was light made manifest, who died, raised above the earth
towards the blackness of Heaven, and rose from the dead to ascend into
Heaven in the peacefulness of evening, and who will return again on the
clouds of Heaven. He is still present in the world which He meant to
free. He is still attentive to our words, if they truly come from the
depths of our hearts, to our tears if they are tears of blood in our
hearts before being salt drops in our eyes. He is with us, an invisible,
benignant guest, never more to leave us, because by His wish our earthly
life is an anticipation of the Kingdom of Heaven, and is a part of
Heaven from this day on. Christ has taken to Himself as His eternal
possession that rough foster-mother of us all, that sphere which is but
a point in the infinite and yet contains hope for the infinite; and
to-day He is closer to us than when He ate the bread of our fields. No
divine promise can be blotted out: the May cloud which hid Him from
sight, still hovers near the earth, and every day we raise our weary and
mortal eyes to that same Heaven from which He will descend in the
terrible splendor of His glory.
INDEX
Abba, Father, 302
Abnegation, 309
Abraham, 42
Achilles, 100;
Priam and, 117, 120
Adam, 127
Adulteress, 223
Adultery, 101, 210
Adversary. _See_ Satan
Agrapha, 12
Aim of this book, 13, 14, 17, 20
Ajax of Sophocles, 118
Alabaster box, 224
Alms, 109
Andrew, 82
Angels, 62, 74, 212
Anger, 100
Animality, 98, 123
Animals, 22
Annas, 251, 313
Anointing, 224
Anti-Christ, 4
Anxiety for the morrow, 109
Apostles, 85, 178. _See also_ Disciples
Aquinas, Thomas, 185
Arcana Disciplina, 406
Aristophanes, 198, 199
Aristotle, 119, 136
Art, 124
Ascension, 241, 405, 407
Asking and receiving, 156
Ass, 22, 116;
Jesus riding on, 244
Augustus, 204
Author of this book, his coming to Christ, 18
Authority, 13
Avarice, 111
Awakened one, 30
Babylon, 44
Balaam, 22, 23
Banks and bankers, 250
Banquet of the Kingdom, 153, 154
Baptism, of blood, 300;
of Jesus, 57, 60;
John the Baptist, 54;
second baptism of Jesus—the tears of the woman who was a sinner, 228
Barabbas, 341
Barns, new, 174
Beatitudes, 87, 93;
last and greatest, 395
Beauty, 15
Beggars, 80, 154, 193
Behold the man!, 346
Belief, 73, 74, 395
Benevolence, 113
Bestiality, 62, 73, 92, 323
Bethany, 140
Bethlehem, 24, 25;
babies, 28
Bethpage, 244
Betrayal, 281
Betrayal of women, 102
Birth of Jesus, 21
Blasphemy, 322
Blindfolding Jesus, 325
Blindness, 133
Blood, scourging of Jesus, 345;
sweat and blood of Jesus in Gethsemane, 306;
water and, from body of Jesus, 375;
wine and, 298
Blood-offering, 29
Boyhood, 32
Bread, as the body of Christ, 296, 298;
breaking, 297;
eating, as communion with God, 295;
fishes and, 146;
material and spiritual, 66, 133, 146;
unleavened, 295, 297
Bridegroom, 155
Brothers, 161, 168, 207;
anger toward, 100;
love for, 114
Buddha, 95, 198
Buddhism, 114
Burial of Jesus, 379
Business as a God, 250
Business men, 79
But I say unto you, 100
Cæsar, faith, 148;
images, 327;
things which are Cæsar’s, 202, 204, 330
Cæsarea, 233
Cain, descendants of, 255
Cainites, 282
Caiaphas, 243, 251, 278, 287, 310, 315, 318, 348;
adjuration of Jesus, 321;
rends his garment, 322
Caligula, 270, 271
Camel and needle’s eye, 181
Cana, 141
Canaan, 43
Capernaum, 74, 76
Capital punishment, 356
Carpenter, 35;
Jesus as, 36
Catalepsy, 139
Catholic Church, 12
Celibacy, 211
Centurion, 352, 355, 356
Cerinthus, 268
Chaldea, 24
Charity, 173, 265
Chastity, 211, 212
Children, 216;
Bethlehem, 28;
Jesus’ love of, 217;
Moses and, 215;
old law and its reversal by Jesus, 218
Christ, Jesus declares himself, 247;
living to-day, 6, 408;
memory, 5;
modern opinion of, 19;
second coming, 259, 262;
Thou art the Christ, 235.
_See also_ Jesus;
Second coming
Christian era, 6, 71
Christian martyrs, 269
Christianity, precedents for, 119
Christs, false, 260, 267
Church, 396;
Catholic, 12;
Peter and, 237
Circe, 122
Claudia Procula, 333, 376
Cleopas, 384, 385, 387
Cloud, Jesus’ glorification, 405
Clovis, 369
Cock crow, 315, 317
Commerce, 250
Communion with God, 295
Confucius, 113
Conversion, 73;
in Jesus’ life, 58
Converted sinner, 59
Corinthians, letter to the, 397
Cost, counting, 153
Country, 39
Courage, 106
Court of the Gentiles, 248
Courtesy, 113
Covenants, 40
Crates, 198, 199
Criticism, 8, 12
Cross, 304, 305, 352;
Jesus and the two thieves carrying, 353;
Jesus nailed to, 360;
superscription, 351.
_See also_ Crucifixion
Crown of thorns, 346
Crucifixion, 359, 367
Crucify him!, 338, 340, 343, 347
Cynics, 198
Cyrenian, 353, 355
Daniel, 271
Darkness, at the crucifixion, 367, 370;
Jesus’ hour of, 310
David, 43, 116
Day of the Lord, 262
Dead, raising, 138
Death, 133;
Egypt’s obsession, 31;
Jewish views, 399
Death of Jesus, authors and accomplices, 242, 243;
foreknowledge, 241;
His prayer, Abba, Father, 302.
_See also_ Crucifixion
Deborah, 43
Debts, forgiving, 171, 230
Defilement, 104
Demons, 137, 175
Desert, 61, 68, 69
Devil. _See_ Satan
Didymus, 392
Disciples, 176;
duty, 189;
earliest, 75;
first four, 82;
foretold of Jesus’ death, 242;
instructions to, 188;
mystic identity with Jesus, 192;
persecutions, 268;
reappearance of Jesus to, after the resurrection, 403;
at resurrection of Jesus, 388, 389;
speaking in the light, 190;
warnings to, 180
Discord, 206
Dismas, 363, 367
Divinity, 123
Divorce, 210
Doing versus hearing, 158
Dositheus, 268
Doubt of Thomas, 392
Earthly kingdoms, 63, 65, 67, 72
Earthquakes, 270
Easter, 243, 295
Edification, 14
Education of the human race, 98
Egypt, character, 31;
death and mud, 31;
exile in, 32;
flight into, 30;
Jews in, 42
Egyptians, 114
Elder son, 167, 169
Elders, 242
Elias, 240, 373
Eloquence, 16
Elxai, 268
Emmaus, 384
End of the world, 262, 266
Enemies, Egyptians and, 114;
Greeks and, 117;
hatred of, 126;
Jewish treatment of, 115;
love of, 121
Ennœa, 267
Entreaty, 156
Epileptics, 135
Erudition, 13
Eternal life, 264, 400
Eternal punishment, 264
Eternity, 71
Evangelists on the Resurrection, 398
Evil, flight from, 105;
root of, 100
Evil for evil, 105
Exaggeration, 100
Exile in Egypt, 32
Expiation, 279
Faith, 132, 133, 136, 148
False Christs, 260, 267
False witnesses, 319
Family, 103
Farmers, 79
Father, real, 34;
universal, 45
Fatherhood of God, 37
Father’s business, 33
Fathers and sons, 213
Fatted calf, 167
Feast, 153
Feed my sheep, 404
Feet, washing of, 292
Fig tree, accursed, 144
Fire, 207;
from heaven, 184;
prophet of fire, 54
First and last, 180
First covenant, 40
Fishermen, 78;
earliest disciples, 82, 84;
return to the sea, 400
Fishers of men, 83
Flesh, conquest of, 212;
one flesh, 209
Flight from evil, 105
Flight into Egypt, 30
Flogging, 343, 344
Flood, 41
Florence, 20
Forgive them, 356, 358, 363
Forgiveness, 170;
of sin, 231
Forsaken, on the cross, 372
Forty days, 62
Fourth Covenant, 43
Frankincense, 25
Friends, Jesus and Judas, 285;
laying down life for, 294;
posthumous, 376
Friendliness, 75
Fulvia, 334
Galilee, 69, 71, 401
Gardeners, 78
Garments of Jesus, division, 361
Gate, narrow, 156
Gentiles and Jerusalem, 262
Gethsemane, 181, 183, 302
Gnostics, 268
God, 122;
as Father, 37;
imitation of, 123;
likeness to, 123;
reign of, 71;
will of, 309
Gods of Greece, 64
Gold, frankincense and myrrh, 25
Golgotha, 357
Good Friday, 350
Good thief, 363
Good tidings, 74
Gospel, 74
Gospels, 6;
authenticity, 11
Greatness, 177
Greek gods, 64
Greeks, treatment of enemies, 117
Happiness, 95, 97, 154
Harvest, 175
Hasmonæans, 27
Hatred, of enemies, 126;
of others, 111;
of ourselves, 124, 125
He is risen, 381
Health, 134, 138;
of soul, 102
Hearing versus doing, 158
Heaven, 73, 407.
_See also_ Kingdom of Heaven
Heights, 130
Heresies, 267
Hermon, Mount, 238
Herod Antipas, 335;
Jesus before, 337
Herod the Great, 27, 325
Herodias, 336
High Priests, 242;
plot against Jesus, 277, 278
Hillel, 117
Holiness, 122, 205
Horace, 26
Hosannas, 246
Hosea, 274
House on a rock, 158
Human nature, mystery, 234
Human race, education, 98
Humility, 125, 172, 293
Hungering after justice, 90
Husbandman, good, 175
Hypocrites, 255
Ideas of Jesus, antiquity of, 112
Imagination, 15, 16
Immortality, 399
Inasmuch, 264
Incest, 336
Inferno, 35
Inheriting the earth, 88
Injustice, 91
Innocents, slaughter of, 28
Insults, 92, 314, 324, 354
Intellectualism, 124
Intelligence, 87
Introduction, 3
Jairus’ daughter, 139
James, 83, 183, 184
Jericho, 172
Jerusalem, desolation, 261;
destruction, 44, 45, 271, 272;
last journey to, 244;
Passover 32;
worldly, 69
Jesus, attempts on his life, 241;
baptism of, 57, 60;
birth, 21;
blindfolded, 325;
as the Christ, 233;
condemnation, 322;
crucifixion, 359, 367;
deeds, 130;
foreknowledge, 49;
foreknowledge of death, 241;
friendliness, 75;
hatred and condemnation for, 275;
healer, 138;
Herod Antipas and, 334;
liberator, 299, 384;
nailed to the cross, 360;
nature, 233;
Pilate and, 329, 338;
Pilate’s question, 330, 332;
poverty, 193;
prosecution, 315;
resurrection, 381;
road to Emmaus, 384;
second crucifixion, 3;
sinlessness, 58;
spat on and struck, 324;
under the cross, 353;
the wanderer, 75, 76;
what men said of him, 233, 235.
_See also_ Christ
Jewish State, reëstablishment, 274
Jews, dispersal, 44, 272;
history, 40;
in Egypt, 42;
wanderings, 43
Job, 116
John, 83, 183, 184, 185, 315, 318;
at the crucifixion, 371;
at the sepulcher, 383
John the Baptist, 54;
beheading of, 336;
imprisonment and death, 69;
Jesus’ answer to him in prison, 137, 138
Jonah, 131
Jordan and John the Baptist, 54
Joseph, 34, 286
Joseph of Arimathea, 318, 377
Joshua, 43
Judas, 186, 202, 243;
Jesus’ understanding of, 284;
kiss of, 311;
at the Last Supper, 290, 301;
mystery of, 281;
sinning woman and, 229;
wasted ointment and, 232
Judea, outbreak, 270
Judging others, 110
Judgment Day, 263, 265
Justice, 118, 122, 124, 155;
hunger for, 90
King of the Jews, 330, 346, 351
Kingdom of Heaven (of God), 66, 68, 71, 93;
chief places in, 157, 184;
children—of such is the Kingdom, 217;
definition, 72;
force and, 205;
like mustard seed, 151
Kingdom of Satan, 72, 196
Kingdoms of the earth, 63, 65, 67, 72
Kings, at the birth of Jesus, 25;
of the nations, 204
Kiss of Judas, 311
Knowledge, 25
Lama sabachthani, 372
Lamps, 156
Land of Promise, 42
Lao-Tse, 113
Last and first, 180
Last judgment, 263, 265
Last Supper, 288
Last things, 259
Law, 122, 124;
old and new, 99
Lazarus, 140, 220
Lazarus, the beggar, 173
Legs, breaking, 366, 375
Leopardi, Giacomo, 95
Lepers, 135
Liberator, 299, 384
Life, 5;
eternal, 264, 400;
Jesus’ knowledge of, 60;
revaluation of, 93;
true, 110
Light, Jesus’ Transfiguration, 239
Lives of Christ, kind we need, 10;
two kinds, 7
Logia, 12, 186
Longinus, 375
Lord’s Prayer, exposition, 128
Losing one’s soul, 196
Lost found, 32
Lost sheep, 170
Love, antiquity and, 111-121;
Christ’s command, 121;
Christ’s for sinners, 59;
experiment of, 125;
filial, 103;
mutual and universal, 113;
for one another, 294;
perfect, 37;
self, 111, 125;
woman who loved much, 229
Lovest thou me?, 403
Luke-warmness, 188
Malchus, 311
Mammon, 193, 196;
Temple at Jerusalem and, 249
Man, early rules, 98;
perfectibility, 97
Manger, 21
Maranatha, 243
Mariamne, 27
Mark, 313
Marriage, 142, 209;
Cana, 141, 143
Martha, 138, 140, 219
Martyrs, 269
Mary (of Bethany), 138, 140, 219, 379
Mary (Virgin Mother), 13, 222, 371, 378, 379;
flight into Egypt, 30
Mary Magdalene, 220, 224, 379;
risen Lord and, 382
Masons, 78
Massacre of the Innocents, 29
Matthew, 185, 186, 282
Meander, 268
Meekness, 88
Memory of Christ, 5
Mental diseases, 136
Merciful, 90
Mercy, 263, 265
Messiah, 183;
material, 53, 65
Messiahship, 49
Messianic prophecies, 50
Metals, 189, 201
Miracles, 66, 67, 131, 136
Money, banks, exchange, etc., 250;
curse of, 220;
Jesus and, 201, 202;
Judas and, 282
Money-changers, 249
Mosaic law, 115
Moses, 30;
deliverance of Jews from Egypt, 42;
law and love, 115;
sprinkling of blood, 299;
with Christ on Hermon, 240
Moslems, 274
Mount, Sermon on the, 85, 94, 186
Mountain, Jesus praying on, 239
Mourning, 89
M’-Ti, 112, 113
Mud, 31
Murder, 100
Mustard seed, 151
Myrrh, 25
Mysteries, 406;
Gethsemane, 306;
human nature, 234;
of the Kingdom, 149
Nails, four, 359, 361
Names, secret and real, 234
Nard, 224
Narrow gate, 156
Nathaniel, 186
Nature, 95;
antagonism of Jesus and, 109;
Jesus and, 38;
overturning, 108
Nazarene, 351
Nazareth, any good thing out of?, 186;
boyhood of Jesus, 32;
foreknowledge of Jesus, 49;
Joseph’s shop, 34
Nazir, 54
Negative command, 117
Neighbor, 172
Nero, 269
New Covenant, 71, 299
Nicodemus, 187, 278, 318, 377
Nicolatians, 268
Nirvana, 114
Noah, 41
Nomads, 41
Nonresistance, 104, 107
Oaths, 103
Octavius Augustus, 26
Old Adam, 59, 125
Old Covenant, 40, 299
Old ideas, 112
Old law, 117
Old Testament morality, 116
Older son, 167, 169
Olives, Mount of, 244, 245, 252, 259, 302
Ophir, 44
Opinion of Christ, modern, 19
Other cheek, 105, 106
Overturnings of opinion, 94
Ox, 22
Paganism, 169
Palazzo Vecchio, 20
Palm branches, 246
Parables, 131, 149, 151
Paradise, 40, 43, 127, 213, 219;
for the penitent thief on the cross, 356
Paradox, 93
Parasceve, 352
Parusia, 259, 262, 267, 273
Passion, beginning, 243
Passover, 32, 288, 295;
night before, 352
Paternoster, 128, 215
Patriarchs, 41
Paul, 269;
testimony as to the resurrection, 397
Peace, 208
Peace and war, 190, 205
Peacemakers, 91
Peasants, 79
Persecutions, 26, 91, 260, 268
Peter, 268, 269;
the Rock, 181, 237.
_See also_ Simon Peter
Petronius, 375
Pharaoh, 42
Pharisees, 55, 104, 147, 253;
condemnation in the Temple, 255;
at Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, 246;
prayer of, and Publican, 171
Philip, 186
Philo, 117
Pilate, Pontius, 243, 325;
fate, 350;
Jesus before, 329, 338;
last recorded words, 351;
personality, 326;
subterfuges, 342, 347, 348, 349;
washing of hands, 346, 349;
wife’s dream, 333
Pitcher, man with, 288, 289
Pity, 171, 265, 354
Plato, 118, 198, 199
Pluto, 198, 199
Poet, Jesus as, 150
Poetry, 15
Poor, the, Jesus’ love of, 200;
Jesus’ teaching, 77;
rich and, 173, 189, 194;
in spirit, 87.
_See also_ Poverty
Possession by devils, 136
Poverty, 79, 109, 174;
disciples, 189;
Jesus, 193;
voluntary, 197
Prayer, 128;
Father, forgive them, 356, 358, 363;
Jesus in Gethsemane, 303, 309;
Jesus on the mountain, 239;
Lord’s prayer, 128;
Pharisee and Publican, 171
Priam, 117, 120
Priestly caste, 276
Primacy, 405
Prodigal son, 160-169
Prophecy of Jesus on Last Things, 259, 266
Prophets, 44, 45;
character, 47;
definitions, 47, 48;
description, 46
Prostitutes, 230
Proverbs, 116
Psalms, imprecations on enemies, 116
Publicans, 56;
prayer of Publican and Pharisee, 171
Punishment, eternal, 264
Pure in heart, 90
Purification, 104
Purity, 110;
of Jesus, 58
Rabboni, 382
Readiness, 155
Reed, 346, 373
Religion, as a business in Jerusalem, 276;
Roman, 327
Religions for the irreligious, 4
Renan, J. E., 9
Renunciation, 152, 180, 196, 200, 201
Repentance, 59, 73, 363, 366
Resurrection, 381;
doubts about, 388;
Evangelists’ testimony, 398;
Paul’s testimony, 397;
rejection, 395
Resurrections from the dead, 138
Retaliation, 90, 99;
Jesus’ repudiation of the old law, 105
Revenge, 105
Rich and poor, 173, 189, 194
Rich man, 194
Righteousness, 114
Risen from the dead, 381
Rock, Caiaphas and Peter, 318;
house built on, 158;
Peter, 237
Roman Emperor, 327
Roman Empire, 204;
upheaval, 269
Roman soldiers, 344, 356
Rome and the Christian martyrs, 269
Sabbath, Jesus and, 254;
Jesus at Capernaum, 77
Sacrifice, of the innocent for the guilty, 279;
pagan examples, 279
Sadducees, 55, 147
Saints, 256, 351
Salome, 336
Salvation, 194
Samaritan, the good, 172
Samaritans, 172, 184
Sanhedrin, 187, 278;
Jesus before, 318
Satan, Jesus and, 63;
Jesus and—Gethsemane, 303
Saul, 43, 116
Savonarola, 20
Scarlet cloak, 346
Scourging, 343, 344
Scribes, 242, 253;
condemnation in the Temple, 255
Second birth, 73, 187, 188
Second coming, 259, 262, 267;
date, 273;
imminence, 274
Second covenant, 41
Secret name, 234
Secretiveness, 149
Self-justification, Socrates and Jesus, 320
Self-love, 111, 125, 126
Self-preservation, 110
Sell all, 197
Selling Jesus, 286
Seneca, 119
Sepulcher, Jesus and, 378
Sepulchers, 257
Sermon on the Mount, 85, 94, 186
Sermon on the Mount, second, 259
Sermons, 17
Servant of all, 109
Service, 185
Sheba, Queen of, 44
Sheep, lost, 170
Sheep and goats, 260, 263
Shepherds, 23, 79
Sickness, 134
Signs, 131
Simon of Cyrene, 353, 355
Simon Magus, 267
Simon Peter, 82, 148, 180;
confession of Christ, 236;
contradictory acts, 311, 312;
denial, 315;
primacy and martyrdom granted to, 403, 405;
at the sepulcher, 383;
sinning woman and, 229
Simplicity, 110, 178, 219
Sin, 101, 126;
against the spirit, 255;
forgiveness of, 231;
he that is without sin, 223;
in Jesus’ life, 58;
parables of, 170;
sacrifice of the innocent for, 279
Sinlessness of Jesus, 58
Sinners, 175;
converted, 59
Skull, Hill of the, 357, 359, 371
Sleep, 181;
infant Jesus and, 30;
of the three disciples on the Mount of Olives, 306, 310
Smiths, 78
Snow and sun, 238
Socrates, 320;
on enemies, 118
Solitude, 61;
of Jesus, 307
Solomon, 44
Son of David, 246
Son of God, 236, 238;
question put to Jesus, 321
Son of Man, 236, 238, 262, 263, 273, 274
Sons, 160;
fathers and, 213
Sons of Thunder, 183
Sonship, 37
Soul, losing, 196
Sower, parable of, 158
Spinoza, 185
Spirit, 62, 196, 406;
sin against, 255;
victory over the flesh, 308
Spitting on Jesus, 324
Sponge soaked in vinegar, 373
Stable, 21
Stephen, 268
Steward, 160, 174
Stoics, 198
Stones, crying out, 247;
disciples compared to, 266;
not one upon another, 258
Suffering, 134
Sun and snow, 238
Sunday, 380
Superiority, 185
Supper, last, 288
Swearing, 102
Sweat of Jesus, 306
Swine-herds, 164
Sword, fire and, 205, 208;
not peace but a sword, 206
Talents, parable of, 159
Talitha qumi, 138
Tares and wheat, 175
Teachers of Jesus, 34
Teaching of Jesus, at Capernaum, 77;
earliest, 71, 74
Tebutis, 268
Temple, 45;
description, 247;
destruction, 272;
destruction foretold, 258, 261;
Jesus’ entry and purpose, 248;
Jesus lost and found in, 33;
place of business in Jewish life, 275;
ramification, 250;
veil, 374
Temptations of Jesus, 64, 303
Ten Commandments, 43
Theology, 12, 25
Theudas, 267
Thief on the cross, penitent, 363
Thieves, two, 352, 356, 363
Third Covenant, 42
Thirst of Jesus on the cross, 373
Thomas, 133, 185;
doubts, 392
Thomas Aquinas, 185
Thorns, 346
Tiberius, 326, 331
Time, fullness of, 71
Titus, 272
Too late, 155, 156
Transfiguration, 182, 183, 239, 241
Transformation of soul, 73, 74, 95, 97, 108, 189
Truth, 15;
sin against, 255;
what is truth?, 329, 332
Turning the other cheek, 105, 106
Twelve, the, 176. _See also_ Disciples
Ulysses, 118
Vaddhamana, 198
Vagabondage of Jesus, 76
Vanity, 109, 177
Veil of the temple, 374
Vespasian, 272
Vinegar, 373
Vineyard, laborers in, 155
Violence, 205, 208;
possible ways of meeting, 105;
solving the problem, 107
Vipers, 252, 256
Virgil, 26, 27
Virgin Mother, 13, 222, 371, 378, 379
Virgins, wise and foolish, 156
Walking on the water, 182
Wandering Jew, 76
War, 91, 122, 206, 209;
wars and rumors of wars, 269
Warnings, 260
Washing of the feet, 292
Washing of the hands, 346, 349
Watch and pray, 307
Water, blood and, from body of Jesus, 375;
of truth, 192;
turned into wine, 143;
walking on, 182
Wealth, 124, 174, 194;
ancient feeling toward, 199
Weddings, 141
What I have written, 351
Wheat and tares, 175
White cloak, 335, 337, 344
Whited sepulchers, 257
Who am I?, 233
Will of God, 309
Wind and sea obedient, 147
Wine, 143, 295, 301;
as the blood of Christ, 299;
mixture offered Jesus on the cross, 358
Wise men, 24
Witnesses, false, 319
Women, Jesus and, 219;
with Jesus on Golgotha, 371;
old law and, 222;
Roman, 334;
at the sepulcher, 380;
woman who was a sinner, 224
Woodworker, 34
Work, 35
Writing on the sand, 223
Ye have heard, 98
Yeast, 151
Zarathushtra, 5, 114
Zealots, 268, 271, 272, 341
Zebedee’s sons, 83
Zeus, 120, 121
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