informal but very effective examination of what the Apostles had learned from Christ's previous discussion of the true source of moral and spiritual values in life.

Here ends the three parallel chapters, which, from different points of view, have surveyed the recorded facts in this busy period of Christ's public ministry. When this period began the Kingdom was only being organized. During the period much was accomplished. After organizing the Kingdom, Jesus carried out an extensive program of propagating that Kingdom among the people. Throughout the period He engaged in repeated conflicts with His enemies, defeating at every turn their attempts to hinder the work and advancement of His Kingdom in the hearts of men. All the while He was giving the Twelve Apostles, incidentally and by direct instruction, an effective schooling in the truths, and methods, and practical work of His Kingdom, which they were later to represent before all the world. Having completed this inauguration of His Kingdom, Jesus was ready to undertake the new departure in His Life-work which begins with the opening of the next chapter.

PART V

THE FACING OF CHRIST

TOWARD THE CROSS

OF CHRIST

"But God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world." Galatians 6:14.

"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18.

"Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the Prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the Gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven; which things the angels desired to look into. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 1. Peter 1:9-13.

"All things are of God, Who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation: to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. For He made Him, Who knew no sin, to be a Sin-Offering for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." 2. Corinthians 5:18-21.

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the Law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit . .

"If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us." Romans 8:1-4, 31-34.

CHAPTER XIV

THE DEATH OF CHRIST BROUGHT INTO VIEW

"And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself." Daniel 9:26.

"The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His Life a ransom for many." Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45.

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"For it became Him, for Whom are all things, and by Whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.' Hebrews 2:10. "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God." 1. Peter 1:18-21,

This chapter marks a new departure in the Life-Work of the Son of God. For the first time in His course Christ turned His own full attention, and that of others, toward the Cross. Hitherto He had been busy with other things. During the first thirty years, the Lord Jesus had grown up to human maturity. Then He spent a long period of His early work getting Himself well before the people. During this time He became widely popular, and attracted to Himself a substantial following. Out of that following He chose Twelve Apostles, as the nucleus of His Kingdom, which He organized, propagated, and defended, as seen above in Parts III and IV. Meantime the Lord had also instructed the Apostles in the truths and working principles of His Kingdom.

After He had thus established Himself and His Kingdom in the world, the Son of God began to focus full attention upon His approaching Death, as the central Fact in the outworking of His Kingdom of Life and Service. Henceforth He looked toward the great Sacrifice on the Cross: for He was the Divine-Human Savior, appointed to save, through His own Death, those who might believe on Him. That approaching Death was the Lord's central theme during this last period of His Galilean Ministry.1 However, in the Scriptures surveyed in this chapter, there are several points of outstanding interest. There is this definite

1This Third Period of the Galilean Ministry extended from Christ's journey into the regions of Tyre and Sidon to His final departure from Galilee for Jerusalem, where He was active at the Feast of Tabernacles. See John 7:1-8:52 below. Practically everything in this period pointed toward the Death of Christ.